Aureococcus P.E.Hargraves & P.W.Sieburth, 1988

Holotype species: Aureococcus anophagefferens Hargraves & Sieburth

Original publication and holotype designation: Sieburth, J.M., Johnson, P.W. & Hargraves, P.E. (1988). Ultrastructure and ecology of Aureococcus anophagefferens gen et sp. nov. (Chrysophyceae): the dominant picoplankter during a bloom in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, summer 1985. Journal of Phycology 24(3): 416-425.

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Description: Very small (1.5-2.0 &m), globular, wall-less cells, with one chloroplast and pyrenoid, and only one mitochondrion. Reproduction unknown; neither flagellated stages nor cysts observed. This marine picoplankton genus has played the main role in marine picoplanktonic blooms in estuarine waters along the coast of Rhode Island, U.S.A., but certainly widely distributed. Cells are coated by extracellular polysaccharide material, which inhibits filtration by grazing animals.

Information contributed by: J. Kristiansen. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2021-10-08 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 masculine.

Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Kristiansen, J. & Preisig, H.R. (2001). Encyclopedia of Chrysophyte genera. Bibliotheca Phycologica 110: 1-260.

Comments: Throndsen (1997: 620) includes this genus in the Order Chrysosphaerales, Family Chrysosphaeraceae.

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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. 08 October 2021. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 25 April 2024