Palatinella Lauterborn, 1906

Holotype species: Palatinella cyrtophora Lauterborn

Original publication and holotype designation: Lauterborn, R. (1906). Eine neue Chrysomonadinen-Gattung (Palatinella cyrtophora nov. gen. nov. spec.). Zoologischer Anzeiger 30: 423-428.

Description: Cell is half spherical to prismatic in shape, somewhat metabolic. Anterior part flattened with a short central flagellum surrounded by a collar of 16-20 slender pseudopodia. Chloroplast single bell-shaped golden brown. Cell enveloped in a conical gelatinous hyaline lorica, with an opening in the wide end through which the pseudopodial collar of the cell protrudes. Lorica is long (80-150 &m in the type species), attached by its pointed end to the substrate. In addition to the characteristic shape of the cell envelope, the known species are fairly large (cell length 12-25 &m, lorica length 90-150 &m). Nutrition apparently mixotrophic, food particles being engulfed at the pseudopodial bases. Reproduction is described to be by budding. The type species is to be found epiphytically in cold calcium deficient lakes, rare; Europe.

Information contributed by: J.Throndsen. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2021-10-08 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: 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.

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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. 08 October 2021. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 26 April 2024