Aureoarbor Molinari & Sánchez Ocharan, 2021

Holotype species: Aureoarbor ramosa (Pascher) Molinari & Sánchez Ocharan

Original publication and holotype designation: Molinari-Novoa, E.A., Mayta, L.F., Sánchez Ocharan, C.E. & Guiry, M.D. (2021). Nomenclatural notes on algae. I. Replacement names for various algal taxa. Notulae Algarum 177: 1-9.

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Description: Cells Ochromonas-like, seated singly at the ends of a forked system of very delicate and elongate, colorless, mucilaginous stalks. Colonies of 2-4-cells, which readily detach from the stalks and can be free-swimming. Cells metabolic, sometimes forming pseudopodia, especially at the anterior end, which is emarginate (as in Ochromonas), but this feature is emphasized by the prolongation of the dorsal margin on the side adjacent to the short flagellum. Each cell has two unequal flagella, one parietal chloroplast, one stigma, and one contractile vacuole. Reproduction by longitudinal division, after which each daughter-protoplast secretes a new stalk at its base, so that the stalk of the parent appears to have forked into two. Sexual reproduction and stomatocysts unknown.

Information contributed by: H.R. Preisig. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2023-03-09 by E.A. Molinari Novoa.

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

Gender: This genus name is currently treated as feminine.

Comments: Found in freshwater, epiphytic in ponds in central Europe.

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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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E.A. Molinari Novoa in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 09 March 2023. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 29 April 2024