Borghiella Moestrup, Gert Hansen & Daugberg, 2008

Holotype species: Borghiella dodgei Moestrup, Gert Hansen & Daugberg

Original publication and holotype designation: Moestrup, Ø., Hansen, G. & Daugbjerg, N. (2008). Studies on woloszynskioid dinoflagellates III: on the ultrastructure and phylogeny of Borghiella dodgei gen. et sp. nov., a cold-water species from Lake Tovel, N. Italy, and on B. tenuissima comb. nov. (syn. Woloszynskia tenuissima). Phycologia 47: 54-78.

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Description: Cells surrounded by periplast of many, thin, often hexagonal vesicles. A narrow pair of elongate, parallel amphiesmal vesicles extends over the cell apex from the left-dorsal to the right-ventral side, lined on each side by a row of four- or fivesided vesicles. It is usually not visible in the light microscope. With many goldengreen chloroplasts. Eyespot intraplastidial, with external covering of vesicles containing brick-like material (type B). Resting cysts smooth, spherical or ovoid. Cell division by fission in the motile stage or in so-called division cysts.

Information contributed by: Moestrup & Calado (2018). The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2024-08-05 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.

Comments: Species of Borghiella are generally in need of study. Many of the original descriptions are very incomplete, and future studies may show that some of the taxa below are conspecific. All species for which temperature preferences have been described are cold-water forms. Only one, B. silvatica, was not mentioned to be occurring at any particular temperature. Only Borghiella tenuissima is morphologically very distinct.

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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. 05 August 2024. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 25 November 2024