Muriella J.B.Petersen, 1932

Holotype species: Muriella terrestris J.B.Petersen

Original publication and holotype designation: Petersen, J.B. (1932). Einige neue Erdalgen. Archiv für Protistenkunde 76: 395-408, 15 figs.

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Description: Thalli unicellular or aggregated in clusters of thin-walled spherical cells 2-20 µm in diameter. Cells uninucleate; parietal chloroplasts single in young cells, becoming multiple with age; pyrenoids absent. Asexual reproduction by autospores, 2-4-8 per sporangium; released by rupture of parental cell wall. Akinetes to 90 µm diameter described in M. magna. Flagellated stages and sexual reproduction unknown. Muriella known from soil and marshes; reported only from Europe. The genus is of uncertain taxonomic position. M. terrestris known only as iconotype. M. aurantiaca Visher later considered synonym of type species. The type strain of M. aurantica Visher 1933/Camb. 249-1 produces naked zoospores resembling Bracteococcus. Other strains identified as Muriella all produced zoospores. Species distinguished based on chloroplast number and morphology and cell size.

Information contributed by: T. Kalina & D. Garbary. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2023-08-16 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: Tsarenko, P.M. (2011). Trebouxiophyceae. In: Algae of Ukraine: diversity, nomenclature, taxonomy, ecology and geography. Volume 3: Chlorophyta. (Tsarenko, P.M., Wasser, S.P. & Nevo, E. Eds), pp. 61-108. Ruggell: A.R.A. Gantner Verlag K.-G..

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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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