Torularia Bonnemaison, 1828

Lectotype species: Torularia dillenii (Bory) Bonnemaison

Currently accepted name for the type species: Torularia atra (Hudson) M.J.Wynne

Original publication: Bonnemaison, T. (1828). Essai sur les hydrophytes loculées (ou articulées) de la famille des Épidermées et des Céramiées. Mémoires du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris 16: 49-148, pls 3-8.

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Type designated in: Wynne, M.J. (2019). Torularia Bonnnemaison, 1828, a generic name to be reinstated for Atrophycus Necchi & Rossignolo, 2017. Notulae Algarum 89: 1-4, no figs.

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Description: Thalli monoecious, dioecious, or polyecious, dark greenish-blue, brownish, or blackish, consistency mucilaginous; branching irregular; whorls reduced, contiguous or separated, obconic, pear-shaped, or barrel-shaped; cortication of the main thallus axis well developed with filaments of cylindrical cells; primary fascicles formed by audouinelloid cells, ranging from cylindrical to barrel-shaped; secondary fascicles abundant and covering two-thirds to the entire internode; spermatangia spherical or obovoidal, on primary or secondary fascicles; carpogonial branches well differentiated from the fascicles, straight or slightly curved, short, 1–5 cells, developing from the periaxial or proximal cells of primary fascicles, rarely on secondary fascicles or cortical filaments, composed of disc- or barrel-shaped cells; involucral filaments, short, composed of shortcylindrical or barrel-shaped cells; carpogonia with unstalked, ellipsoidal, cylindrical, or clavate trichogynes; carposporophytes axial, hemispherical, or spherical, higher than whorls, 1–2 per whorl, large; gonimoblast filaments densely arranged, composed of cylindrical or barrel-shaped cells; carposporangia small, obovoidal, pear-shaped, or ellipsoidal.

Information contributed by: Vis & Necchi (2021: 300).. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2022-04-21 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: Vis, M.L. & Necchi, O., Jr. (2021). Subphylum Eurhodophytina, Class Florideophyceae, Subclass Nemaliophycidae, Order Batrachospermales. In: Freshwater red algae Phylogeny, taxonomy and biogeography. ( Eds), pp. 129-332. Cham: Springer [Springer Nature Switzerland AG].

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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. 21 April 2022. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 29 March 2024

 
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