Wolskyella Claus, 1963

Holotype species: Wolskyella filamentosa G.Claus

Original publication and holotype designation: Claus, G. (1963). Wolskyella, a new genus of blue-green algae and its phylogenetic significance. Nova Hedwigia 6: 29-38.

Description: Unicellular-pseudofilamentous; pseudofilaments solitary, not branched, containing 1-4 more or less parallel rows of elongated, cylindrical cells, enveloped by colorless, wide and not stratified, homogeneous envelope of different width; cells situated in pseudofilaments, serially one after another, not touching and slightly distant from one another. Cells cylindrical or rod-like, with solitary prominent granules (always ?) at their apices, pale blue-green. Cell division by the crosswise fission, reproduction by fragmentation of pseudofilaments or by liberation of solitary cells from the open envelopes, which are motile (planocytes). Little known genus, the type species described from freshwater swamps in South Africa, the second one is marine, both not yet revised.

Information contributed by: J. Komárek. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2023-03-03 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: Strunecký, O., Ivanova, A.P. & Mares, J. (2022 '2023'). An updated classification of cyanobacterial orders and families based on phylogenomic and polyphasic analysis (Review). Journal of Phycology 59(1): 12-51.

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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. 03 March 2023. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 10 May 2024