Transeauina Guiry, 2013

Holotype species: Transeauina glyptosperma (De Bary) Guiry

Original publication and holotype designation: Guiry, M.D. (2013). Taxonomy and nomenclature of the Conjugatophyceae (=Zygnematophyceae). Algae. An International Journal of Algal Research 28: 1-29.

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Description: Thalli unbranched, forming extensive skeins of intertwining uniseriate filaments. Cells cylindrical 6-30 µm in diameter, several times as long; cell wall two-layered with inner cellulose, outer mucilage layer; endwalls plane; no flagellated stages. Cells uninucleate; chloroplasts axile; flat ribbonlike or platelike; one or two per cell; pyrenoids in row or scattered. Asexual reproduction by fragmentation, akinetes, parthenospores, and aplanospores. Life cycle haplobiontic, meiosis zygotic. Sexual reproduction by scalriform conjugation; gametes isogamous, fuse within conjugation tube. Zygospores distinctly tricarinate with three keels, or sharp edges. Filaments usually found as free-floating masses.

Information contributed by: R.W. Hoshaw and R.M. McCourt [as Debarya Wittrock].. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2013-11-17 by Salvador Valenzuela Miranda.

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

Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Guiry, M.D. (2013). Taxonomy and nomenclature of the Conjugatophyceae (=Zygnematophyceae). Algae. An International Journal of Algal Research 28: 1-29.

Comments: All species rare, but collected from Eruope, Asia, North America, and New Zealand. Earliest fossil zygospores reported from Permian Period (250 million years b.p.); in contrast to modern distribution, fossil keeled spores quite common in sediments where Zygnemataceae found, especially in cold or cool climates in high-mountain treeless plains (paramos) of Colombian Andes; used as marker for clean, oxygen-rich, shallow stagnant, mesotrophic water in habitats subject to seasonal warming. Originally D. glyptosperma described as a species of Mougeotia; Transeuina may be related to latter. Trait of conjugation places in Zygnematales but otherwise phylogenetic position unclear.

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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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Salvador Valenzuela Miranda in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 17 November 2013. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 23 April 2024