Teleaulax D.R.A.Hill, 1991
Holotype species: Teleaulax acuta (Butcher) D.R.A.Hill
Original publication and holotype designation: Hill, D.R.A. (1991). A revised circumscription of Cryptomonas (Cryptophyceae) based on examination of Australian strains. Phycologia 30: 170-188, 40 figs, 2 tables.
Request PDFDescription: Free-swimming, biflagellate monads, obovoid or fusiform and slightly compressed; a longitudinal furrow extends from the sub-apical vestibulum almost to the posterior of the cell and is lined with four or more conspicuous rows of ejectisomes, gullet absent; a single chloroplast pyrenoid and nucleomorph, the chloroplast containing the phycobiliprotein Cr-phycoerythrin 545, and is brown fading to yellow-brown in older cells; the periplast with an inner component sheet and a superficial component of rosulate scales sandwiching the plasma membrane. Repreduction occurs by simple cell division in the motile state; palmelloid colonies apparently not formed; cysts and sexual reproduction unknown. The ultrastructure has been examined. The nucleomorph is located in the periplastidial compartment anterior to the pyrenoid; thylakoids do not traverse the pyrenoidal matrix. The thylakoids in T. acuta are arranged in three's rather than the usual loosely associated pairs in other cryptomonads. Teleaulax acuta possesses an unusual type of Cr-phycoerythrin 545. Although Teleaulax is common and often abundant in marine coastal habitats worldwide, it has rarely been recorded in the literature, probably due to it being overlooked because of the delicate nature of the cells and the difficulty in bringing it successfully into unialgal culture. The genus has been recorded in European, Japanese and Australian waters
Information contributed by: D.R.A. Hill. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2020-10-18 by M.D. Guiry.
Taxonomic status: This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Altenburger, A., Blossom, H.E., Garcia-Cuetos, L., Jakobsen, H.H., Carstensen, J., Lundholm, N., Hansen, P.J., Moestrup, Ø & Haraguchi, L. (2020). Dimorphism in cryptophytes—the case of Teleaulax amphioxeia/ Plagioselmis prolonga and its ecological implications. Science Advances 6(eabb1611): 1-9, 5 figs. 1 table.
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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. 18 October 2020. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 22 November 2024
