Erythrolobus coxiae J.L.Scott, J.B.Baca, F.D.Ott & J.A.West 2006
Publication Details
Erythrolobus coxiae J.L.Scott, J.B.Baca, F.D.Ott & J.A.West 2006: 109, figs 1-11
Published in: Scott, J.L., Baca, B., Ott, F.D. & West, J.A. (2006). Light and electron microscopic observations on Erythrolobus coxiae gen. et sp. nov. (Porphyridiophyceae, Rhodophyta) from Texas U.S.A. Algae 21(4): 407-416, 12 figs, 1 table.
Request PDFType Species
This is the type species (holotype) of the genus Erythrolobus.
Status of Name
The taxonomic or nomenclatural status (or both) of this entity is in some way unresolved and requires further investigation.
Type Information
Type locality: U.S. Coast Guard Station (26°4’N 97°1’W), South Padre Island, Texas, U.S.A.; (Scott & al. 2006: 409) Holotype: June, 1975; on submerged stones; NSW; 738978 (Scott & al. 2006: 409) Notes: Type culture: UTEX LB 2545. UTEX Culture Collection
of Algae, 1 University Station A6700, University of
Texas, Austin, TX 78712-0183, U.S.A.
CCMP 1944, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences,
P.O. Box 475, 180 McKown Point Road, West Boothbay
Harbor, ME 04575 USA.
Eponomy
Named for Elenor R. Cox, a distinguished phycologist on the faculty at Texas A & M University (College Station, Texas) from 1967 to 1993.
General Environment
This is a marine species.
Description
Cells with gliding motility, spherical to ovoid, 5-12 µm
in diameter and never seen as doublets or packets.
Multiplication is asexual by fission. Thin extracellular
matrix. Chloroplast bright red, parietal and composed of
four or more lobes radiating outwardly from and around
the central pyrenoid. Chloroplast lobes partially encircle
the peripheral nucleus, lacking peripheral encircling thylakoid.
Pyrenoid becoming elongated or multiple in old
cells, surrounded by floridean starch sheath. Pyrenoid
matrix containing branched thylakoids. Starch grains
scattered throughout older cells. Vacuoles small, located
throughout peripheral cytoplasm. Nucleus with central
nucleolus.
Created: 02 May 2002 by M.D. Guiry.
Last updated: 02 December 2012
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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 02 December 2012. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 03 January 2025
