Dendromonas F.Stein, 1878

Holotype species: Dendromonas virgaria (J.F.Weisse) F.Stein

Original publication and holotype designation: Stein, F. von (1878). Der Organismus der Infusionsthiere nach eigenen forschungen in systematischere Reihenfolge bearbeitet. III. Abtheilung. Die Naturgeschichte der Flagellaten oder Geisselinfusorien. I. Hälfte, Den noch nicht abgeschlossenen allgemeinen Theil nebst erklärung: Der sämmtlichen Abbildungen enthaltend. pp. i-x, 1-154, pls I-XXIV. Leipzig: Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann.

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Description: Cells colorless, borne at the ends of the terminal branches of a dichotomously-stalked corymbose colony. Stalks hyaline, erect, rigid, sometimes encrusted with iron compounds; the branches at the ramifications usually regular and equal in length. Individual cells irregularly pyriform or triangular, with an obliquely truncate anterior margin. Two flagella, one long and one short; 1-2 contractile vacuoles anteriorly or posteriorly located. One species with an inconspicuous stigma. Ingestion of solid food particles at all parts of the periphery. Division by longitudinal fission. Stomatocysts known for one species. Sexual reproduction not observed. Found in fresh water in various places worldwide, one species in brackish water aquaria and basins at the coast of the Black Sea

Information contributed by: H. R. Preisig. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2021-10-11 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: Kristiansen, J. & Preisig, H.R. (2001). Encyclopedia of Chrysophyte genera. Bibliotheca Phycologica 110: 1-260.

Comments: Kristiansen & Preisig (2001: 9) record this genus as alternately being a member of the family Ochromonadaceae Lemmerman 1899.

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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. 11 October 2021. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 24 April 2024