Eutreptia Perty, 1852

Holotype species: Eutreptia viridis Perty

Original publication and holotype designation: Perty, M. (1852). Zur Kenntniss kleinster Lebensformen: nach Bau, Funktionen, Systematik, mit Specialverzeichniss der in der Schweiz beobachteten. pp. 1-228, 17 plates. Bern: Verlag von Jent & Reinert.

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Description: Green, free-swimming, spindle-shaped, unflattened cells, with pronounced euglenoid movement; numerous discoid or ribbon-shaped chloroplasts, often radiating from a central paramylon center (pyrenoid surrounded by sheath of paramylon grains); eyespot present, with a flagellar swelling on one flagellum. Two emergent flagella, equal in length or nearly so, heterodynamic, both highly mobile during swimming. Cells fairly large, the type up to 80 _ 15 _m. Copious mucilage often produced to give flocculent masses of the characteristic palmelloid state in which cells may divide repeatedly; nucleus large, with 44-45 chromosomes in the type, 90 in E. pertyi Pringsheim. Quite common in brackish and marine eutrophic waters; recorded from coastal and estuarine regions of the Atlantic and Adriatic Oceans, the North Sea, Russia, China and Scandinavia.

Information contributed by: G.F. Leedale. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2021-03-18 by M.D. Guiry.

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

Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Kostygov, A.Y., Karnkowska, A., Votýpka, J., Tashyreva, D., Maciszewski, K., Yurchenko, V. & Lukeš, J. (2021). Euglenozoa: taxonomy, diversity and ecology, symbioses and viruses. Open Biology 11(200407): 1-47.

Comments: Throndsen (1997: 647) record this genus as being a member of the Order Euglenales.

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