Emergosphaera W.W.Miller, 1921

Holotype species: Emergosphaera superficialis V.V.Miller

Description: Solitary, spherical, oval to pear shaped cells to 40 µm diameter. Cell walls thin and smooth. Cells ?uninucleate when young, multinucleate when mature; chloroplast parietal and band shaped, without pyrenoids. Asexual reproduction by biflagellate, naked zoospores; 6-16 (-32) per sporangium. Zoospores 6-8 &m long, with band shaped chloroplast and stigma, but apparently without contractile vacuoles. Isogamous sexual reproduction; gametes similar to zoospores. Zygote 12-13 µm diameter. Emergosphaera neustonic with zoospores planktonic in freshwater puddles; reported only from former USSR from Kursk. Genus incompletely described and of doubtful taxonomic significance. According to Komárek and Fott (1983), genus similar to Nautococcus.

Information contributed by: D. Garbary. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2012-07-02 by Michael 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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