Meyerella Fawley & K.P.Fawley, 2005

Holotype species: Meyerella planktonica Fawley & K.P.Fawley

Original publication and holotype designation: Fawley, M.W., Fawley, K.P. & Owen, H.A. (2005). Diversity and ecology of small coccoid green algae from Lake Itasca, Minnesota, USA, including Meyerella planktonica, gen. et sp. nov.. Phycologia 44: 35-48.

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Description: Solitary cells without mucilaginous covering. Reproduction by autosporulation, with spores liberated by rupture of the mother cell wall. Chloroplast single, parietal, plate-like and mostly lateral in young cells, becoming trough-shaped with a thin base in older cells. Pyrenoid lacking. Autospores initially angular-ellipsoidal, soon rounding at both ends to form a more-or-less short cylinder with rounded ends. Subsequent growth occurs on both axes. Analysis of the 18S rDNA sequence indicates that this taxon is basal to the trebouxiophycean lineage that includes Chlorella vulgaris.

The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2010-08-30 by M.D. Guiry.

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

Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Fawley, M.W., Fawley, K.P. & Owen, H.A. (2005). Diversity and ecology of small coccoid green algae from Lake Itasca, Minnesota, USA, including Meyerella planktonica, gen. et sp. nov.. Phycologia 44: 35-48.

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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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