Rhizochloris Pascher, 1917

Holotype species: Rhizochloris mirabilis Pascher

Original publication and holotype designation: Pascher, A. (1917). Flagellaten und Rhizopoden in ihrer gegenseitigen Beziehungen. Archiv für Protistenkunde 38: 1-87.

Description: Unicellular, amoeboid, free-living organisms (4)-8 to 18 (80) &m with large, wide pseudopodia or fine, elongated rhizopodia to 20 &m. Sometimes daughter cells form cytoplasmic filaments or loose, irregular groups in which cells remain independent. Chloroplasts small and discoid, mostly six per cell (sometimes two to four), without pyrenoids. Most species with stigma, and in freshwater with contractile vacuoles. Cells contain lipid or oil granules and these globules are strongly refringent and probably comprised of chrysolaminarin. Additional nutrition provided by capture of small organisms by pseudopodia. Asexual reproduction by division of cells. Cysts known from one species (cysts 8 &m). Rhizochloris known from fresh, brackish or marine waters in Europe. Species distinguished based on chloroplast number, presence or absence or stigmata, movement of pseudopodia and the ability of cells to form groups.

Information contributed by: A. Couté. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2021-10-04 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. 04 October 2021. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 05 May 2024