Chloremys Pascher, 1940

Holotype species: Chloremys sessilis Pascher

Original publication and holotype designation: Pascher, A. (1940). Zur Kenntnis der Süsswassertetrasporalen I. Beihefte zum Botanischen Centralblatt 60: 135-156.

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Description: Solitary cells enclosed in flattened, dome-shaped sheath with iron deposit forming a skirt around base of cell. Sheath sometimes brownish. Cells (with envelope) 15-25 &m long, 12-20 &m wide and 8-10 &m high, protoplast comprising 50-80 % of volume. Cells uninucleate with contractile vacuoles. Chloroplast band shaped with contractile vacuoles and pyrenoid. Asexual reproduction by naked, biflagellate zoospores; 2-8 per sporangium; Zoospores spherical with apical flagella 1.5 times length of cells and with two apical contractile vacuoles; chloroplast with anterior stigma and apparently without pyrenoid. Sexual reproduction unknown. Chloremys epiphytic on filamentous algae (e.g. Spirogyra) in freshwater; reported only from former Czechoslovakia. Fott included Chlorepithema as a synonym, however, subsequent authors maintained the original distinction between these genera (i.e. presence of sporangial operculum in Chlorepithema).

Information contributed by: D. Garbary. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2014-05-11 by M.D. Guiry.

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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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 11 May 2014. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 19 April 2024