Naisa Molinari, 2021

Holotype species: Naisa cyanophora (Pascher) Molinari

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: Free-swimming, colorless, biflagellate monads with a convex ventral margin and slightly concave (to somewhat convex) dorsal margin, the anterior lightly obliquely truncate, and the lateral margins flattened; a longitudinal furrow is lined with two rows of ejectisomes - there is no gullet; chloroplasts lacking; a contractile vacuole is present in the anterior of the cell; the nucleus is situated posteriorly. The type species possesses a single, centrally located cyanelle. There is no knowledge of its ecology or ultrastructure.

Information contributed by: D.R.A. Hill. 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: This is a little known cryptomonad genus described from a freshwater habitat in Austria.

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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 07 May 2024