Ollicola Vørs, 1992

Holotype species: Ollicola vangoorii (W.Conrad) Vørs

Original publication and holotype designation: Vørs, N. (1992). Heterotrophic amoebae, flagellates, and heliozoa from the Tvärminne area, Gulf of Finland, in 1988-1990. Ophelia 36(1): 1-109, 46 figures, 2 tables.

Description: Biflagellate monads, surrounded by a fibrillar, brownish lorica. Chloroplast demonstrated in one species. Stomatocysts have been observed. Reproduction not known. Several species, including the type species of the former genus Calycomonas, have been transferred to the rhizopod genus Paulinella. There is conflicting evidence whether this genus contains a chloroplast or not. If it does, it cannot be distinguished from Pseudokephyrion. Marine, widely distributed in temperate and arctic seas.

Information contributed by: J. Kristiansen. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2023-06-17 by E.A. Molinari Novoa.

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: Kawai, H. & Nakayama, T. (2015). Introduction (Heterokontobionta p.p.), Cryptophyta, Dinophyta, Haptophyta, Heterokontophyta (except Coscinodiscophyceae, Mediophyceae, Fragilariophyceae, Bacillariophyceae, Phaeophyceae, Eustigmatophyceae), Chlorarachniophyta, Euglenophyta. In: Syllabus of plant families. Adolf Engler's Syllabus der Pflanzenfamilien. Ed. 13. Phototrophic eukaryotic Algae. Glaucocystophyta, Cryptophyta, Dinophyta/Dinozoa, Haptophyta, Heterokontophyta/Ochrophyta, Chlorarachnniophyta/Cercozoa, Chlorophyta, Streptophyta p.p. (Frey, W. Eds), pp. 11-64, 103-139. Stuttgart: Borntraeger Science Publishers.

Comments: According to Bérard-Therriault (1999; 242) the family name of this genera is Chrysococcaceae.

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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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E.A. Molinari Novoa in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 17 June 2023. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 25 April 2024