Cryptochrysis Pascher, 1911
Holotype species: Cryptochrysis commutata Pascher
Original publication and holotype designation: Pascher, A. (1911). Zwei braune Flagellaten. Berichte der Deutschen Botanischen Gesellschaft 29: 190-192, 2 groups of figures.
Request PDFDescription: Free-swimming, biflagellate monads with dorsiventral symmetry, the anterior obliquely truncate, posterior tapering and rounded, the protoplast weakly torsioned; with two lateral, yellow-brown chloroplasts, often lobed; usually with two contractile vacuoles, one of these always anterior; with many small refractive granules present in the posterior; the starch granular; the flagella subequal, homodynamic, inserted in vestibulum. Division occurs in the motile state through a longitudinal plane that sustains cell symmetry; palmelloid colonies and cysts have not been observed. An enigmatic genus that Butcher (1967) reduced to synonomy with Chroomonas. It is retained as a separate genus here, however, as it clearly does not fit into the more recent definitions of Chroomonas (Santore 1984, Hill 1991) and may, in fact, represent a valid genus of freshwater cryptomonads.
Information contributed by: D.R.A. Hill. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2021-10-07 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 feminine.
Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Bérard-Therriault, L., Poulin, M. & Bossé, L. (1999). Guide d'identification du phytoplancton marin de l'estuaire et du Golfe du Saint-Laurent incluant également certains protozoaires. Publication Spéciale Canadienne des Sciences Halieutiques et Aquatiques 128: 1-387.
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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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