Volatus Chapuis & M.L.Vis, 2017

Holotype species: Volatus personatus Chapuis & M.L.Vis

Original publication and holotype designation: Chapuis, I.S., Necchi, O. Jr., Zuccarello, G.C., Xie, S.L., Aboal, M., Sánchez-Castillo, P.M. & Vis, M.L. (2017). A new genus, Volatus and four new species of Batrachospermum sensu stricto (Batrachospermales, Rhodophyta). Phycologia 56(4): 454-468, 45 fig., 1 table.

Description: Thalli monoecious, mucilaginous consistency; branching irregular; whorls well developed or reduced; cortical filaments of the main axis browncolored with cylindrical cells; primary fascicles with ellipsoidal or fusiform cells; secondary fascicles few and sparse to abundant and covering the entire internode; spermatangia terminal or sub-terminal on primary or secondary fascicles; carpogonial branches well differentiated from fascicle cells, curved, twisted, or spirally coiled, arising from the periaxial or proximal cells, short, composed of disc- or barrel-shaped cells; involucral filaments short and scarce, composed of ellipsoidal or spherical cells; carpogonia with sessile, lanceolate, cylindrical or clavate trichogynes; carposporophytes axial, large, one per whorl, hemispherical to spherical; gonimoblast filaments densely arranged, composed of cylindrical cells; carposporangia large, ellipsoidal, or obovoidal.

Information contributed by: Vis & Necchi (2021: 154). The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2022-04-13 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 masculine.

Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Vis, M.L. & Necchi, O., Jr. (2021). Subphylum Eurhodophytina, Class Florideophyceae, Subclass Nemaliophycidae, Order Batrachospermales. In: Freshwater red algae Phylogeny, taxonomy and biogeography. ( Eds), pp. 129-332. Cham: Springer [Springer Nature Switzerland AG].

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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. 13 April 2022. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 20 April 2024