Tovellia Moestrup, K.Lindberg & Daugberg, 2005
Holotype species: Tovellia coronata (Wołoszyńska) Moestrup, K.Lindberg & Daugbjerg
Original publication and holotype designation: Lindberg, K., Moestrup, Ø & Daugbjerg, N. (2005). Studies on woloszynskioid dinoflagellates I: Woloszynskia coronata re-examined using light and electron microscopy and partial LSU rDNA sequences, with description of Tovellia gen. nov. and Jadwigia gen. nov. (Tovelliaceae fam. nov.). Phycologia 44: 416-440.
Request PDFDescription: Cells covered with many, often hexagonal, amphiesmal plates which are usually difficult to see in the light microscope except after staining or in empty thecae that can be studied at high magnification using phase contrast or interference contrast microscopy. The plates are arranged in 6–17, more or less distinct latitudinal rows. The cingulum generally comprises only a single row of plates but the postcingular row of plates curves over the cingulum edge into the cingulum. Tovellia stoschii was drawn with two rows of plates in the cingulum. The arrangement of the chloroplasts divides the genus into two: (1) those with chloroplasts radiating from the cell center (T. apiculata, T. aveirensis, T. nygaardii, T. sanguinea) and those in which the chloroplasts are parietal or more or less fill the cytoplasm (T. coronata, T. glabra, T. paldangensis, T. stoschii). There is some indication that in old or nutrient-depleted cells the radiating arrangement of the chloroplasts is lost, the arrangement becoming more irregular. In species with radiating chloroplasts, the central parts are often located close together and in T. sanguinea and T. aveirensis they form a compound pyrenoid. When known, cell division appears to take place within the non-motile cell, resulting in the formation of up to 8 zoospores. They are probably released through a slit in the epicone, corresponding to the position of the ALP. Cysts with paracingulum, two often very distinct opposite axial horns, and pre- and postcingular protuberances or with more evenly distributed, sometimes branched spines.
Information contributed by: Moestrup & Calado (2018). The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2021-09-27 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: Moestrup, Ø. & Calado, A.J. (2018). Süßwasserflora von Mitteleuropa. Dinophyceae. Vol. 6 pp. [i]-xii, [1]-560, 421 figures. Berlin: Springer Spektrum.
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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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