Cladonema Kent, 1880

Holotype species: Cladonema laxum (Kent) Kent

Original publication and holotype designation: Kent, W.S. (1880). A manual of the Infusoria; including a description of all known flagellate, ciliate and tentaculiferous Protozoa, British and foreign, and an account of the organisation and affinities of the sponges. Vol. 1 pp. [x], 1-144, 8 plates. London: David Bogue.

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Description: Cells colorless, arranged like clusters of grapes in dendroid colonies. Cells attached singly to the extremities of a flexible, hyaline, slender and thread-like, branching stalk; the branches at the ramifications usually irregular and unequal in length. Individual cells irregularly pyriform, with an obliquely truncate anterior margin. Two flagella, one long and one short; 1-2 contractile vacuoles posteriorly located. Nutrition by ingestion of solid food particles at all parts of the periphery. Division longitudinal. Stomatocysts known for one species, sexual reproduction not reported. Epiphytic, in fresh waters of Central Europe, rarely reported.

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 neuter.

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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