Chaetonemopsis Gauthier-Lièvre, 1954

Holotype species: Chaetonemopsis pseudobulbochaete Gauthier-Lièvre

Original publication and holotype designation: Gauthier-Lièvre, L. (1954). Algues Africaines nouvelles, rares ou imparfaitement connues. Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de l'Afrique du Nord 45: 98-111.

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Description: Plants erect, consisting of uniseriate filaments, laterally and alternately branched, bearing long and basally swollen hairs, two such hairs often on each terminal cell. Cells uninucleate with parietal chloroplast and doubtfully reported pyrenoid. Asexual reproduction unknown. Sexual reproduction oogamous; oogonia pyriform, often terminal, releasing oogonium by fracture of wall but remaining attached by fine cytoplasmic thread. Zygote with reticulate patterning on gelatinous wall. Chaetonemopsis reported only from Guinea, West Africa. Doubt has been expressed concerning the opinion that the features characterizing the genus Chaetonemopsis are produced by an amoeba parasitising a Bulbochaete. Oogonia similar to Aphanochaete.

Information contributed by: D. M. John. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2022-10-18 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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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 18 October 2022. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 26 April 2024