Peltomonas Vlk, 1941

Holotype species: Peltomonas volitans Vlk

Original publication and holotype designation: Vlk, W. (1941). Über eine neue farblose Monade Peltomonas volitans nov. gen. nov. sp.. Archiv für Protistenkunde 95: 315-318.

Description: Cells colorless, free-swimming, markedly flattened when seen from the side and hexagonal, pentagonal or irregularly rounded in face view. Single emergent flagellum inserted approximately in the middle of the cell in a trough of the ventral face. Protoplast contains 2 contractile vacuoles, a stigma (in one species) and a number of ejectable trichocysts. Reproduction not observed. Pre-division stages with 2 flagella and 2 stigmata. Stomatocysts unknown. This poorly known genus appears to be the colorless counterpart of Monochrysis. Ekelund and Patterson (1997) regard Peltomonas to be a "protist incertae sedis", possibly not related to the Chrysophyceae. Originally found in water samples from a bog spring in Czechia. Other species also found on soil in Australia and in plankton of sewage ponds in Germany.

Information contributed by: H. R. Preisig. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2021-10-19 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. 19 October 2021. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 07 May 2024