Wislouchiella Skvortzov, 1925: 29
Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Chlorophyta
Class Chlorophyceae
Order Chlamydomonadales
Family Phacotaceae
Holotype species: Wislouchiella planctonica Skvortzov
Taxonomic status: currently recognized as a distinct genus.
Description: Unicellular,biflagellate, uninucleate alga with protoplast contained in stronglycompressed, firm lorica. Lorica 19-21 um wide, 25-30 um long including"wings", with broad, wing-like expansion, and with surface beset withcolorless to brownish, minute verrucae. In broad front and narrow sideviews, each compressed face of the lorica with 2 blunt, conical to cylindricalprojections; one projects anteriorly from origin near lorica apex, the otherprojects posteriorly from origin near level of protoplast base. Invertical view, projections on opposite faces of lorica axial to each other,with plane of superior pair lying at an angle to plane of inferior pair.Protoplast ovoid to ellipsoid, not filling lumen of lorica. Chloroplastprincipally cup-shaped with basal pyrenoid and anterior stigma. Twocontractile vacuoles at base of flagella.Methodof reproduction unknown.Unicellular,biflagellate, uninucleate alga with protoplast contained in stronglycompressed, firm lorica. Lorica 19-21 um wide, 25-30 um long including"wings", with broad, wing-like expansion, and with surface beset withcolorless to brownish, minute verrucae. In broad front and narrow sideviews, each compressed face of the lorica with 2 blunt, conical to cylindricalprojections; one projects anteriorly from origin near lorica apex, the otherprojects posteriorly from origin near level of protoplast base. Invertical view, projections on opposite faces of lorica axial to each other,with plane of superior pair lying at an angle to plane of inferior pair.Protoplast ovoid to ellipsoid, not filling lumen of lorica. Chloroplastprincipally cup-shaped with basal pyrenoid and anterior stigma. Twocontractile vacuoles at base of flagella.Methodof reproduction unknown.
Comments: Wislouchiella is a rare freshwater genus known only from USA andtype locality in Manchuria
NCBI Nucleotide Sequences
Numbers of names and species: There is only one species or infraspecific name in the database at present, which has been flagged as currently accepted taxonomically.
Names: ('C' indicates a name that is currently accepted taxonomically; 'S' a homotypic or heterotypic synonym; 'U' indicates a name of uncertain taxonomic status, but which has been subjected to some verification nomenclaturally; 'P' indicates a preliminary AlgaeBase entry that has not been subjected to any kind of verification. For more information on a species click on it to activate a link to the Species database):
Wislouchiella planctonica Skvortzov C - type
Contributors
Some of the descriptions included in AlgaeBase were originally from the unpublished Encyclopedia of Algal Genera,
organised in the 1990s by Dr Bruce Parker on behalf of the Phycological Society of America (PSA)
and intended to be published in CD format.
These AlgaeBase descriptions are now being continually updated, and each current contributor is identified above.
The PSA and AlgaeBase warmly acknowledge the generosity of all past and present contributors and particularly the work of Dr Parker.
Descriptions of chrysophyte genera were subsequently published in J. Kristiansen & H.R. Preisig (eds.). 2001. Encyclopedia of Chrysophyte Genera. Bibliotheca Phycologica 110: 1-260.
Linking to this page: http://www.algaebase.org/search/genus/detail/?genus_id=45033
Citing AlgaeBase
Cite this record as:
Michael Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2013. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org; searched on 18 May 2013.
Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:6078
