Olivamonas Skvortsov, 1969

Holotype species: Olivamonas asiatica (Skvortsov) Skvortsov

Original publication and holotype designation: Skvortsov, B.V. (1969). The list of new genera and type species of flagellates and algae published in 1967. Part III. Hydrobiologia 34(3-4): 348-352.

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Description: Free-swimming, biflagellate monads, dorsiventrally asymmetric, with a firm smooth periplast; non-metabolic; in ventral view obovate to elliptic, in section moderately compressed or triangulate; anterior obliquely truncate without a depression; flagella equal and two-thirds of the cell in length; numerous chloroplasts, discoid, rounded, olivaceous to green-brown; nucleus almost central; single anterior contractile vacuole; oil droplets near the nucleus. A little known freshwater genus recorded only from standing water near Harbin, northern Manchuria, China. It differs from Kisselevia in cell shape and color of the chloroplasts.

Information contributed by: D. R. A. Hill. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2021-10-07 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.

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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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