Chlorangiella De Toni, 1889: 557
Holotype species: Chlorangiella pygmaea (Ehrenberg) P.C.Silva
Original publication and holotype designation:De Toni, G.B. (1889). Sylloge algarum omnium hucusque cognitarum. Vol. I. Chlorophyceae. pp. [3]-12, [i]-cxxxix, 1-1315. Patavii [Padua]: Sumptibus auctoris.
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Taxonomic status: currently recognized as a distinct genus.
Description: Thalli unicellular or colonial with cells terminal on unbranched or branched mucilaginous stalks to ca 5 times cell length. Thalli develop from zoospores that attach by apical end, lose flagella and secrete stalk. Cells with persistant contractile vacuoles at apical end, whereas stigma may or may not persist. Cells 5-42 x 3-19 µm, elliptic or ovate to egg-shaped, one species flattened at anterior. Cells uninucleate; single or multiple chloroplasts parietal and band shaped; single pyrenoid present or absent. Asexual reproduction by division of vegetative cells into 2-4 (-8) zoospores; apical rupture of sporangium results in dispersal of spores or spores may reattach at base of sporangium and initiate new stalks. Zoospores 11-29 x 5-9 µm. C. basiannulata forms akinetes 24-35 µm long. Sexual reproduction unknown. Chlorangiella epiphytic on algae or epizoic on crustaceans in freshwater; reported from Europe, North America and Asia mostly in temperate conditions although some species also tropical. Species distinguished based on differences in cell size and form, chloroplast structure and form of the stalk. Thalli unicellular or colonial with cells terminal on unbranched or branched mucilaginous stalks to ca 5 times cell length. Thalli develop from zoospores that attach by apical end, lose flagella and secrete stalk. Cells with persistant contractile vacuoles at apical end, whereas stigma may or may not persist. Cells 5-42 x 3-19 µm, elliptic or ovate to egg-shaped, one species flattened at anterior. Cells uninucleate; single or multiple chloroplasts parietal and band shaped; single pyrenoid present or absent. Asexual reproduction by division of vegetative cells into 2-4 (-8) zoospores; apical rupture of sporangium results in dispersal of spores or spores may reattach at base of sporangium and initiate new stalks. Zoospores 11-29 x 5-9 µm. C. basiannulata forms akinetes 24-35 µm long. Sexual reproduction unknown. Thalli unicellular or colonial with cells terminal on unbranched or branched mucilaginous stalks to ca 5 times cell length. Thalli develop from zoospores that attach by apical end, lose flagella and secrete stalk. Cells with persistant contractile vacuoles at apical end, whereas stigma may or may not persist. Cells 5-42 x 3-19 µm, elliptic or ovate to egg-shaped, one species flattened at anterior. Cells uninucleate; single or multiple chloroplasts parietal and band shaped; single pyrenoid present or absent. Asexual reproduction by division of vegetative cells into 2-4 (-8) zoospores; apical rupture of sporangium results in dispersal of spores or spores may reattach at base of sporangium and initiate new stalks. Zoospores 11-29 x 5-9 µm. C. basiannulata forms akinetes 24-35 µm long. Sexual reproduction unknown. Chlorangiella epiphytic on algae or epizoic on crustaceans in freshwater; reported from Europe, North America and Asia mostly in temperate conditions although some species also tropical. Species distinguished based on differences in cell size and form, chloroplast structure and form of the stalk. Thalli unicellular or colonial with cells terminal on unbranched or branched mucilaginous stalks to ca 5 times cell length. Thalli develop from zoospores that attach by apical end, lose flagella and secrete stalk. Cells with persistant contractile vacuoles at apical end, whereas stigma may or may not persist. Cells 5-42 x 3-19 µm, elliptic or ovate to egg-shaped, one species flattened at anterior. Cells uninucleate; single or multiple chloroplasts parietal and band shaped; single pyrenoid present or absent. Asexual reproduction by division of vegetative cells into 2-4 (-8) zoospores; apical rupture of sporangium results in dispersal of spores or spores may reattach at base of sporangium and initiate new stalks. Zoospores 11-29 x 5-9 µm. C. basiannulata forms akinetes 24-35 µm long. Sexual reproduction unknown.
Comments: Chlorangiella epiphytic on algae or epizoic on crustaceans in freshwater; reported from Europe, North America and Asia mostly in temperate conditions although some species also tropical. Species distinguished based on differences in cell size and form, chloroplast structure and form of the stalk.
Numbers of names and species: There are 10 species (and infraspecific) names in the database at present, of which 9 have 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):
Chlorangiella basiannulata (Skuja) P.C.Silva C
Chlorangiella consociata (Korshikov) Fott P
Chlorangiella epizootica Bourrelly P
Chlorangiella inhaerens (Bachmann) Ettl & Gärtner C
Chlorangiella javanica (Lemmermann) P.C.Silva C
Chlorangiella mucigena K.R.Ramanathan C
Chlorangiella polychlora (Skuja) P.C.Silva C
Chlorangiella pygmaea (Ehrenberg) P.C.Silva C - type
Chlorangiella stentorina (Ehrenberg) P.C.Silva S
Chlorangiella subarctica (Skuja) Fott C
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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)
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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.
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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 25 May 2013.
Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:87225
