Nephrocytium Nägeli, 1849

Holotype species: Nephrocytium agardhianum Nägeli

Original publication and holotype designation: Nägeli, C. (1849). Gattungen einzelliger Algen, physiologisch und systematisch bearbeitet. Neue Denkschriften der Allg. Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften 10(7): i-viii, 1-139, pls I-VIII.

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Description: Cells in 4-8-16- celled colonies within markedly expanded mother cell walls and with hyaline mucilage envelope. Cells fusiform, oval or cylindrical but seldom symmetrically so, mostly slightly reniform, the apices rounded-acuminate to broadly rounded and not thickened, 6-38 x 2-14 &m. Cell wall smooth. Chloroplast single, parietal with one pyrenoid. Asexual reproduction by (2)-4-8 autospores released by mucilaginization and rupture of the expanded mother cell wall. Sexual reproduction and flagellated stages unknown. Nephrocytium, planktonic, probably cosmopolitan in freshwater habitats. Similar to Nephrochlamys but possessing a pyrenoid and to Juranyiella but lacking cell wall granulations

Information contributed by: G. Dillard. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2021-09-05 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 neuter.

Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Garcia, T.S., Štenclová, L., Pereira Archanjo, N.C. & Bagatini, I.L. (2021). Revised phylogenetic position of Nephrocytium Nägeli (Sphaeropleales, Chlorophyceae), with the description of Nephrocytiaceae fam. nov. and Nephrocytium vieirae sp. nov. Taxon 70(5): [1-14] 917-930, 2 figs, 2 tables.

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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. 05 September 2021. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 18 April 2024