Roholtiella Bohunická, Pietrasiak & J.R.Johansen, 2015

Holotype species: Roholtiella edaphica Bohunická & Lukesová

Original publication and holotype designation: Bohunicka, M., Pietrasiak, N., Johansen, J.R., Berrendero Gómez, N., Hauer, T., Gasina, L.A. & Lukensová, A. (2015). Roholtiella, gen. nov. (Nostocales, Cyanobacteria) - a tapering and branching cyanobacteria of the family Nostocaceae. Phytotaxa 197(2): 84-103.

Description: Morphologically similar to Calothrix, from which it differs by having chains of arthrospores and not tapering to a hair and by living in freshwater and soil habitats rather than marine or brackish waters. Morphologically and phylogenetically close to Calochaete, from which it differs by not having cell division in more than one plane and in the markedly different structure of all conserved regions of the 16S-23S ITS region.

Information contributed by: Bohunická, Pietrasiak & Johansen, original description.. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2023-03-06 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: Strunecký, O., Ivanova, A.P. & Mares, J. (2022 '2023'). An updated classification of cyanobacterial orders and families based on phylogenomic and polyphasic analysis (Review). Journal of Phycology 59(1): 12-51.

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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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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 06 March 2023. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 16 May 2024