Chodatia Kol, 1934, nom. illeg.

Holotype species: Chodatia tetrallantoidea Kol

Currently accepted name for the type species: Deuterostichococcus tetrallantoideus (Kol) Pröschold & Darienko

Original publication and holotype designation: Kol, E. (1934). Sur un nouvel organisme du Cryoplancton de laSuisse - Chodatia tetrallantoidea Kol nov. gen. et sp. Bulletin de la Société Botanique de Genève 25: 277-282, 1 fig, 1 table.

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Description: Cell solitary or remaining joined after cell division in two-celled filaments. Cells slightly curved to prominently arched, normally with rounded polar ends, seldom truncated. Cell wall thin, ensheathed by delicate hyaline mucilaginous envelope. Chloroplast yellowish green, 1-2 per cell, parietal, laminate, unlobed to slightly lobed, without pyrenoids and without starch. Polar vacuole enclosing oil-like droplets. Cell proliferation only by transverse or oblique vegetative cell division; sexual reproduction unknown. Chodatia known only as cryobiont from Swiss Alps. Systematic placement of Chodatia in green algae doubtful, resulting from lack of starch. Yellowish-green chloroplasts suggesting xanthophycean rather than chlorophycean alga.

Information kindly contributed by G. M. Lokhorst but may now be outdated.

Taxonomic status: This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Deuterostichococcus.

Gender: This genus name is currently treated as feminine.

Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Pröschold, T., Darienko, T. & Guiry, M.D. (2020). Nomenclatural corrections in the green algal genus Deuterostichococcus Pröschold & Darienko (Trebouxiophyceae). Notulae Algarum 137: 1-2, no figs.

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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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E.A. Molinari Novoa in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 05 November 2021. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 24 April 2024