Hillea J.Schiller, 1926
Holotype species: Hillea fusiformis (J.Schiller) J.Schiller
Original publication and holotype designation: Schiller, J. (1926). Die planktonischen Vegetationen des Adriatischen Meeres. B. Chrysomonadina, Heterokontae, Cryptomonadina, Eugleninae, Volvocales. 1. Systematischer Teil. (Nach den Ergebnissen der österreichischen Adriaforschung in den Jahren 1911-1914). Archiv für Protistenkunde 53: 59-123, 30 figures, plates 3-6.
Request PDFDescription: Minute, free-swimming, biflagellate monads; furrow-gullet system poorly developed, with a longitudinal furrow apparently lacking associated ejectisomes; with one or two chloroplasts that may be a red-brown or blue-green color; pyrenoid and eyespot may or may not be present. An artificial and poorly known assemblage of cryptomonads. Butcher (1967) emended Schiller's protologue to include all "Cryptomonas-like organisms in which there is a vertical depression or furrow without [ejectisomes]". Thus relegating the genus to waste-bucket status, Butcher included all the incompletely described species in which ejectisomes had neither been figured nor mentioned. The present definition encompasses marine and freshwater forms described in the main from European localities. There is no detailed study of any species of Hillea.
Information contributed by: D.R.A. Hill. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2023-07-25 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: Chrétiennot-Dinet, M.-J. (1990). Atlas du phytoplancton marin. Volume III: Chlorarachnophycées, Chlorophycées, Chrysophycées, Cryptophycées, Euglénophycées, Eustigmatophycées, Prasinophycées, Prymnesiophycées, Rhodophycées et Tribophycées Avec la collaboration de Chantal Billard et Alain Sournia. pp. [1]-261. Paris: Éditions du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique 15, quai Anatole France - 75700 Paris.
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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. 25 July 2023. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 25 April 2024
