Labyrinthuloides F.O.Perkins, 1973

Holotype species: Labyrinthuloides yorkensis F.O.Perkins

Original publication and holotype designation: Perkins, F.O. (1973). A new species of marine Labyrinthulid Labyrinthuloides yorkensis gen. nov. spec. nov. - cytology and fine structure. Archiv für Mikrobiologie 90: 1-17, 22 figs.

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Description: Uninucleate vegetative cells capable of gliding motility utilizing ectoplasmic net-like extensions which are elaborated at specialized organelles (sagenogenetosomes) in cytoplasmic cortex; elements of ectoplasmic net contain no cytoplasmic organelles only membrane-bound cisternae; cells move independently and may reverse direction of movement; net elements do not enrobe cells. Vegetative multiplication either binary fission, or by sporangial formation as a result of successive bipartition or progressive cleavage of the protoplast; zoospores, if formed, are biflagellate with an anterior flagellum containing mastigonemes and a posterior whiplash flagellum; plasmodia and amoebae may be formed.

Information contributed by: Original description, slightly modified. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2022-09-11 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.

Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Ichinomiya, M., Yoshikawa, S., Kamiya, M., Ohki, K., Takaichi, S. & Kuwata, A. (2011). Isolation and charcterization of Parmales (Heterokonta/Heterokontophyta/Stramenopiles) from the Oyahio region, western North Pacific. Journal of Phycology 47(1): 144-151.

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Some of the descriptions included in AlgaeBase were originally from the unpublished Encyclopedia of Algal Genera, organised in the 1990s by Dr Bruce Parker on behalf of the Phycological Society of America (PSA) and intended to be published in CD format. These AlgaeBase descriptions are now being continually updated, and each current contributor is identified above. The PSA and AlgaeBase warmly acknowledge the generosity of all past and present contributors and particularly the work of Dr Parker.

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. 11 September 2022. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 25 April 2024