Philozoon Geddes, 1882
Lectotype species: Philozoon medusarum Geddes
Publication details: Geddes, 1882: 304
Original publication: Geddes, P. (1882). Further researches on animals containing chlorophyll. Nature (London) 25: 303-305.
Request PDFType designated in: Loeblich, A.R. & Loeblich, A.R. (1966). Index to the genera, subgenera, and sections of the Pyrrhophyta. Studies in Tropical Oceanography 3: [i]-x, 1-94, 1 plate.
Description: Emend. Lajeunesse in LaJeunesse et al., 2021:168.
Information contributed by: M.D.Guiry. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2022-06-13 by M.D. Guiry.
Taxonomic status: This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Nomenclatural note
"Thus, then, the chemical composition, as well as the structure and mode of division of these yellow cells, are those of unicellular algae, and I accordingly propose the generic name of Philozoon, and distinguish four species, differing slightly in size, colour, mode of division, behaviour with reagents, &c., for which the name of P. radiolarum, P. siphonophorum, P. actiniarum, and P. medusarum, according to their habitat, may be conveniently adopted." - (23 March 2018) - M.D. Guiry
Taxonomic note
Symbiodiniaceae ? (see LaJeunesse et al., 2021: 175). See also note for Symbiodinium. - (10 June 2022) - G.M. Guiry
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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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