Phalacroma Stein, 1883

Lectotype species: Phalacroma porodictyum F.Stein

Original publication and holotype designation: Stein, F. von (1883). Der Organismus der Infusionsthiere nach eigenen forschungen in systematischere Reihenfolge bearbeitet. III. Abtheilung. II. Hälfte die Naturgeschichte der Arthrodelen Flagellaten. pp. 1-30, pls I-XXV. Leipzig: Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann.

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Description: Medium-sized ( µm) more or less laterally compressed flagellates with a theca composed of cellulosic plates identical in plate formula to Dinophysis. Has been differentiated from Dinophysis Ehrenberg only by the size of the epicone which is in Phalacroma not so far reduced as in Dinophysis. As there are many integrating forms and no difference in the plate pattern, independently Abé (1967) and Balech (1967) have considered Phalacroma synonymous with Dinophysis. Phalacroma is a later homonym of a trilobite and has been replaced by Prodinophysis Balech (1944) but is the correct name under the botanical nomenclature. Emended by Hastrup Jensen & Daugberg (2009: 1147).

Information contributed by: M. Elbrächter. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2020-09-28 by M.D. Guiry.

Taxonomic status: This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.

Gender: This genus name is currently treated as neuter.

Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Kawai, H. & Nakayama, T. (2015). Introduction (Heterokontobionta p.p.), Cryptophyta, Dinophyta, Haptophyta, Heterokontophyta (except Coscinodiscophyceae, Mediophyceae, Fragilariophyceae, Bacillariophyceae, Phaeophyceae, Eustigmatophyceae), Chlorarachniophyta, Euglenophyta. In: Syllabus of plant families. Adolf Engler's Syllabus der Pflanzenfamilien. Ed. 13. Phototrophic eukaryotic Algae. Glaucocystophyta, Cryptophyta, Dinophyta/Dinozoa, Haptophyta, Heterokontophyta/Ochrophyta, Chlorarachnniophyta/Cercozoa, Chlorophyta, Streptophyta p.p. (Frey, W. Eds), pp. 11-64, 103-139. Stuttgart: Borntraeger Science Publishers.

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Descriptions of chrysophyte genera were subsequently published in J. Kristiansen & H.R. Preisig (eds.). 2001. Encyclopedia of Chrysophyte Genera. Bibliotheca Phycologica 110: 1-260.

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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 28 September 2020. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 22 November 2024