Tetrallantos Teiling, 1916

Holotype species: Tetrallantos lagerheimii Teiling

Original publication: Teiling, E. (1916). Schwedische Planktonalgen. II. Tetrallantos, eine neue Gattung der Protococcoideen. Svensk Botanisk Tidskrift 10(1): 59-66.

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Description: Thalli colonial, forming 2- or mostly 4-celled coenobia to 45 µm, these aggregated into compound colonies of up to 16 cells (rarely more), embedded in wide, structureless, mucilaginous envelope. Cells lunate with rounded ends 12-22.5 x 2.5-10 µm. In type species two of the cells in same plane with ends touching to form a ring, the other two attached at one end to nodes of first two cells, and lie in separate plane(s); in T. novae-geronae cells variously aggregated. Cell walls smooth. Cells uninucleate; chloroplasts single and parietal with one pyrenoid. Asexual reproduction by autospores; 2, 4 (mostly) or 8 per sporangium and organized into coenobia; daughter colonies released by rupture of parental cell walls, these sometimes remaining distinct and attaching different coenobia within colony. Flagellated stages and sexual reproduction unknown. Tetrallantos planktonic in freshwater; type species reported from all continents except Antarctica in tropical to temperate environments; T. novae-geronae, recently described from Cuba. Genus placed in subfamily Tetrallantoideae with Schmidledesmus and Schroederiella.

Information contributed by: D. Garbary and E. Hegewald. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2015-05-13 by Salvador Valenzuela Miranda.

Taxonomic status: This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.

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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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Salvador Valenzuela Miranda in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 13 May 2015. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 19 April 2024