Chaetopeltis Berthold, 1878: 215
Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Chlorophyta
Class Chlorophyceae
Order Chaetopeltidales
Family Chaetopeltidaceae
Holotype species: Chaetopeltis orbicularis Berthold
Original publication and holotype designation:Berthold, G. (1878). Untersuchungen über die Verzweigung einiger Süsswasseralgen. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlichen Leopoldinisch-Carolinischen Deutschen Akademie der Naturforscher 40: 167-230, pls XV-XVIII.
Taxonomic status: currently recognized as a distinct genus.
NCBI Nucleotide Sequences
Numbers of names and species: There are 5 species (and infraspecific) names in the database at present, of which 3 have been flagged as currently accepted taxonomically.
Names: ('C' indicates a name that is currently accepted taxonomically; 'S' a homotypic or heterotypic synonym; 'U' indicates a name of uncertain taxonomic status, but which has been subjected to some verification nomenclaturally; 'P' indicates a preliminary AlgaeBase entry that has not been subjected to any kind of verification. For more information on a species click on it to activate a link to the Species database):
Chaetopeltis americana (J.Snow) Collins S
Chaetopeltis barbata (Bohlin) Wille C
Chaetopeltis minor K.Möbius C
Chaetopeltis orbicularis Berthold C - type
Chaetopeltis orbicularis f. megalocystis (Schmidle) Heering P
References
O'Kelly, C.J., Watanabe, S. & Floyd, G.L. (1994). Ultrastructure and phylogenetic relationships of Chaetopeltidales ord. nov. (Chlorophyta, Chlorophyceae). Journal of Phycology 30: 118-128.
Friedl, T. & O'Kelly, C.J. (2002). Phylogenetic relationships of green algae assigned to the genus Planophila (Chlorophyta): evidence from 18S rDNA sequence data and ultrastructure. European Journal of Phycology 37: 373-384.
Neustupa, J., Eliás, M., Skaloud, P., Nemcová, Y. & Sejnohová, L. (2011). Xylochloris irregularis gen. et sp. nov. (Trebouxiophyceae, Chlorophyta), a novel subaerial coccoid green alga. Phycologia 50(1): 57-66.
Linking to this page: http://www.algaebase.org/search/genus/detail/?genus_id=42657
Citing AlgaeBase
Cite this record as:
Michael Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2013. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org; searched on 22 May 2013.
Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:89745
