Glossomastix C.J.O'Kelly, 2002
Holotype species: Glossomastix chrysoplasta C.J.O'Kelly
Original publication and holotype designation: O'Kelly, C.J. (2002). Glossomastix chrysoplasta n. gen., n. sp. (Pinguiophyceae), a new coccoidal, colony-forming golden alga from southern Australia. Phycological Research 50(1): 67-74.
Request PDFPrecise date of publication: March 2002
Description: Golden-colored unicellular micro-algae, the vegetative cells without cell walls, scales of other structured cell covering, forming mucilage-embedded colonies, within which the cells are dispersed singly or in small irregular packets. Chloroplasts with girdle lamellae and differentiated nucleoids. Asexual reproduction by poorly swimming uniflagellate zoospores, the flagellum without hairs, scales or other structured cell covering and borne on the posteriorly directed basal bodies. Actively moving reproductive cells with a long thin pseudopod, extending from the region of the flagellar insertion towards the posterior end of the cell. Flagellar apparatus consisting of a rhizoplast, two basal bodies and three microtubular roots; the posterior basal body in zoospores with a transitional helix subtending the basal plate. Flagellar apparatus components present in vegetative cells as well as zoospores.
The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2021-10-08 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. 08 October 2021. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 26 April 2024
