Chlorosarcinopsis Herndon, 1958

Holotype species: Chlorosarcinopsis minor (Gerneck) Herndon

Original publication and holotype designation: Herndon, W. (1958). Studies on chlorosphaeracean algae from soil. American Journal of Botany 45(4): 298-308, 47 figs. [in English]

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Description: Solitary cells spherical, cells mutually compressed in diads, tetrads, or packets resulting from desmoschisis. Cells uninucleate with parietal chloroplasts containing one or more pyrenoids. Asexual reproduction by zoospores, aplanospores, or desmoschisis. Zoospores naked with two flagella of equal length. Isogamous sex observed.

Information contributed by: T.R. Deason. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2012-01-27 by M.D. Guiry.

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

Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Tsarenko, P.M. (2011). Sphaeropleales. In: Algae of Ukraine: diversity, nomenclature, taxonomy, ecology and geography. Volume 3: Chlorophyta. (Tsarenko, P.M., Wasser, S.P. & Nevo, E. Eds), pp. 280-355. Ruggell: A.R.A. Gantner Verlag K.-G..

Comments: The type species was isolated from Jamaican soil, but other species were isolated from soils of North America and Saudi Arabia. Physiological and immunological studies of a number of species have been performed. Ultrastructure studies have shown that the zoospore flagellar apparatus of all species examined is essentially identical with that of Chlamydomonas reinhardii, and that the zoospores of four species have thin cell walls. The latter species were removed to a new genus Neochlorosarcina Watanabe (1983).

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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. 27 January 2012. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 27 November 2024