Proterythropsis Kofoid & Swezy, 1920

Holotype species: Proterythropsis crassicaudata Kofoid & Swezy

Original publication and holotype designation: Kofoid, C.A. (1920). A new morphological interpretation of the structure of Noctiluca, and its bearing on the status of the Cystoflagellata (Haeckel). University of California Publications in Zoology 19: 317-334.

Description: Unicellular biflagellate heterodynamic cells of medium size (70 µm long), with stout rudimentary tentacle or prod-like antapical process and posterior ocelloid. The type species is regarded as not different on genus level from Warnowia Lindemann, see there. The second described species P. vigilans Marshall has nematocysts and has been transferred to the genus Nematopsides Greuet which is regarded by Sournia (1986) as congeneric with Nematodinium Kofoid and Swezy 1921. Habitat: Marine plankton.

Information contributed by: M. Elbrächter. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2017-05-23 by M.D. Guiry.

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

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. 23 May 2017. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 22 November 2024