Diacronema Prauser, 1958
Holotype species: Diacronema vlkianum Prauser
Original publication and holotype designation: Prauser, H. (1958). Diacronema vlkianum, eine neue chrysomonade. Archiv für Protistenkunde 103: 117-128.
Description: Motile cells with two unequal flagella and a short haptonema. Longer anterior flagellum with fine non-tubular hairs and with or without of minute dense bodies; posterior flagellum sometimes with a basal swelling and vestigial. Occasionally dense bodies on cell surface. A pit or canal penetrating the cell near the long anterior flagellum. Chloroplast single or double without a pyrenoid, sometimes with an eyespot located on the external face of the plastid. Non-motile cells with or without incomplete appendages.
The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2021-10-04 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.
Comments: Emended by Bendif & Véron in Bendif et al. (2011: 756); the revised diagnosis is given above.
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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. 04 October 2021. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 22 November 2024
