Coleochlamys Korshikov, 1953
Holotype species: Coleochlamys apoda Korshikov
Original publication and holotype designation: Korshikov, A.A. (1953). Viznachnik prisnovodnihk vodorostey Ukrainsykoi RSR. Pidklas Protokokovi (Protococcineae). Bakuol'ni (Vacuolales) ta Protokokovi (Protococcales) [The Freshwater Algae of the Ukrainian SSR. Sub-Class Protococcineae. Vacuolales and Protococcales]. Vol. 5 pp. 439, 421 figures. Kyiv: Akademyy Nauk Ukrayins'koy RSR. [in Ukrainian]
Request PDFDescription: Solitary cells cylindrical to oval, often asymmetric and slightly curved, and wider at one end or in middle. Cells 18-39 x 5-14 µm, with smooth cell walls. Cells uninucleate; chloroplast single and parietal with 1-2 pyrenoids. Asexual reproduction by biflagellate, naked zoospores; 32-64 per sporangium, released through pore in cell apex. A single nonmotile spore can remain in sporangium and develop into new vegetative cell. Zoospores 5.5-9 x 2.5-3.5 µm, with anterior contractile vacuoles and stigma. Sexual reproduction unknown. Coleochlamys neustonic in freshwater; reported only from Germany and Ukraine. C. oleifera known only in culture. Two additional species, Acrochasma deflexum Korshikov and Rhopalocystis cucumis Reisigl, may also belong to Coleochlamys. Solitary cells cylindrical to oval, often asymmetric and slightly curved, and wider at one end or in middle. Cells 18-39 x 5-14 µm, with smooth cell walls. Cells uninucleate; chloroplast single and parietal with 1-2 pyrenoids. Asexual reproduction by biflagellate, naked zoospores; 32-64 per sporangium, released through pore in cell apex. A single nonmotile spore can remain in sporangium and develop into new vegetative cell. Zoospores 5.5-9 x 2.5-3.5 µm, with anterior contractile vacuoles and stigma. Sexual reproduction unknown. Coleochlamys neustonic in freshwater; reported only from Germany and Ukraine. C. oleifera known only in culture. Two additional species, Acrochasma deflexum Korshikov and Rhopalocystis cucumis Reisigl, may also belong to Coleochlamys.
Information contributed by: D. Gargary & T. Kalina. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2021-02-03 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: Barcyte, D., Hodac, L. & Eliás, M (2021). Settling the identity and phylogenetic position of the psychrotolerant green algal genus Coleochlamys (Trebouxiophyceae). Phycologia 60(2): 135-147 [1-13], 18 figs, 1 table.
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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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