Fortiellopsis M.O.P.Iyengar, 1976

Holotype species: Fortiellopsis madraspatensis M.O.P.Iyengar

Original publication and holotype designation: Iyengar, M.O.P. & Desikachary, T.V. (1976). Contributions to our knowledge of the South Indian Algae - IX. Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy – Section B 84: 159-164.

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Description: Cells with a lorica; lorica thick, calcareous, rough, finely punctate, dark brown, with four anterior thickenings and four grooves with flagellar openings, protoplast ovate to rounded retracted from the loriea except at the anterior; chloroplast cup-shaped, with 2-many pyienoids; eye spot present; contractile vacuoles 2, anterior ; flagella 4, anteriorly placed, emerging through separate pores alternating with the anterior prominences; nucleus single, slightly lateral. Reproduction not known.

Information contributed by: Orignal description.. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2023-06-09 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.

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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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