Desmochloris Shin Watanabe, N.Kuroda & F.Maiwa, 2001

Holotype species: Desmochloris halophila (Guillard, Bold & McEntee) Watanabe, Kuroda & Maiwa

Original publication and holotype designation: Watanabe, S., Kuroda, N. & Maiwa, F. (2001). Phylogenetic status of Helicodictyon planctonicum and Desmochloris halophila gen. et comb. nov. and the definition of the class Ulvophyceae (Chlorophyta). Phycologia 40: 421-434.

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Precise date of publication: 7 December 2001

Description: Vegetative cells uninucleate, spherical or obovate, solitary or packet-forming, with a smooth cell wall. Chloroplast parietal, cup-shaped, with one to several pyrenoids. Asexual reproduction by dissociation of cell packets and by zoospores. Zoospores biflagellate, without cell wall. Sexual reproduction not observed.

Information contributed by: Skaloud et al. (2018: 156).. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2021-10-20 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: Darienko, T., Rad-Menéndez, C., Campbell, C.N. & Pröschold, T. (2021). Molecular phylogeny of unicellular marine coccoid green algae revealed new nnsights into the systematics of the Ulvophyceae (Chlorophyta). Microorganisms 9(1586): [1-26].

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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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