Vandenhoekia Boedeker, 2023

Holotype species: Vandenhoekia subantarctica Boedeker

Original publication and holotype designation: Boedeker, C., Wynne, M.J. & Zuccarello, G.C. (2023). Hidden diversity in high-latitude Southern Hemisphere environments: Reinstatement of the genus Rama and description of Vandenhoekia gen. nov. (Cladophoraceae, Ulvophyceae, Chlorophyta), two highly variable genera. Journal of Phycology 59: 1284–1298, 4 figs.

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Description: Based on morphology alone the three species in this genus would be placed in different genera of the Cladophorales. Morphologies range from curly unbranched Rhizoclonium-like filaments 60–90 µm in diameter, robust unbranched filaments 70–400 µm in diameter with long basal cells and a Chaetomorpha-like habit to densely branched, sturdy Cladophora-like thalli with long unbranched apical parts and mostly opposite ramuli. Distinct from other genera in the Cladophoraceae in rDNA sequences.

Information contributed by: Original description.. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2023-12-05 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.

Comments: (GenBank Accession Numbers: LSU rDNA gene OR197082–OR197083, OR197102, OR197093; SSU OR197127–OR197128). Samples of Vandenhoekia vary by 0.02–0.06 in LSU rDNA gene. Named to honor the Dutch phycologist Christiaan van den Hoek for his many significant contributions to our understanding of the Cladophoraceae.

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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 December 2023. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 19 September 2024