Chloramoeba Bohlin, 1898
Holotype species: Chloramoeba heteromorpha Bohlin
Original publication and holotype designation: Bohlin, K. (1898). Zur Morphologie und Biologie einzelliger Algen. Översigt af Kongliga Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar 54(9): 507-529, 10 figures.
Request PDFDescription: Solitary naked cells to abut 10 _m diameter without defined cell walls and with variable amoeboid shape. Cell movement by two anterior, unequal flagella; one very short, the other twice as long as the cell. Cells uninucleate with two to six parietal, discoid chloroplasts and one contractile vacuole at the flagellar base. Stigma and pyrenoid absent. Storage products oil and glycogen. Sexual reproduction unknown. Asexual reproduction probably by longitudinal division of cells. Ellipsoid cysts rich in oil and with thick walls reported. Chloramoeba free-living in freshwater. Genus rarely reported and only from Europe.
Information contributed by: I. M. Franceschini. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2023-03-13 by E.A. Molinari Novoa.
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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E.A. Molinari Novoa in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 13 March 2023. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 25 April 2024
