Octogoniella Pascher, 1930

Holotype species: Octogoniella sphagnicola Pascher

Original publication and holotype designation: Pascher, A. (1930). Ein grüner Sphagnum-Epiphyt und seine Beziehung zu freilebenden Verwandten (Desmatractum, Calyptobactron, Bernardinella). (Der 'Beitrage zur Morphologie und Biologie epiphytischerAlgen'). Archiv für Protistenkunde 69: 637-658.

Description: Thalli microscopic and unicellular with spherical protoplast embedded in four or eight sided polygonal envelope 13-18 µm long and a maximum of 15 µ;m wide. Cell walls smooth with slightly developed equatorial ridge and blunt cell ends. Contractile vacuole present in young cells. Cells uninucleate; chloroplast single and parietal; pyrenoid single when young, two when mature. Asexual reproduction by autospores or biflagellate, egg-shaped zoospores. Sexual reproduction unknown. Octogoniella epiphytic on the green cells of Sphagnum leaves; known only from Czechoslovakia.

Information contributed by: D. Garbary and O. L. Reymond. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2018-11-16 by M.D. Guiry.

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

Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Komárek, J. & Fott, B. (1983). Chlorophyceae (Grünalgen) Ordnung: Chlorococcales. Das Phytoplankton des Süsswassers. In: Das Phytoplankton des Süsswassers (Die Binnengewässer) XVI. 7. Teil 1. Hälfte. (Huber-Pestalozzi, G. Eds), pp. [1]-x, [1]-1044. Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlangbuchhandlung (Nägele u. Obermiller).

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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. 16 November 2018. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 25 April 2024