Fotterella R. Buck, 1978

Holotype species: Fotterella tetrachlorelloides R.Buck

Description: Cells united into (2)-4-(8-16)-celled colonies, 40-75 µm, apparently without a mucilaginous envelope or with an indistinct envelope but with persistent mother cell wall. Cells rather ellipsoid to oval, with persistent mother cell wall. Cells rather ellipsoid to oval, 12-16 x 8-10-(13) µm, the cell wall rather thick and distinct. Chloroplast single, parietal, U-shaped, with one pyrenoid. Asexual reproduction by formation of (2)-4 autospores, the mother cell wall persistent. Sexual reproduction and flagellated stages unknown. Fotterella, planktonic, reported from freshwater in Austria, England, Germany ad Switzerland. Similar to Ecdysichlamys from which it differs principally in lacking papilla-like thickenings of the cell wall at the poles. Hindák (1980) places this genus in synonymy with Tetrachlorella Korshikov.

Information contributed by: G. Dillard. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2004-09-27 by Robert Wilkes.

Taxonomic status: This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.

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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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Robert Wilkes in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 27 September 2004. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 26 April 2024