Pseudopolyedriopsis Hollerbach [Gollerbach], 1962

Holotype species: Pseudopolyedriopsis skujae Hollerbach [Gollerbach]

Original publication and holotype designation: Hollerbach, M.M. (1962). De vi taxonomica Polyedriopsis spinulosae Schmidle et genere novo Xanthophytorum Pseudopolyedriopsis Hollerb. notula. Botanicheskij Materialy 15: 62-67. [in Russian]

Description: Unicellular, free-living, solitary organisms 17-25 &m long (without spines). Cells flattened and more or less twisted with a number of angular projections (4 to 5) and with concave sides. Projections or poles conical with two to six thin, rigid bristles 20-40 &m long, twice the diameter of the cell body. In profile cell coarsely ellipsoidal. Cell wall thick, finely perforate and colorless. Chloroplasts multiple per cell, parietal and discoid and yellow green, without pyrenoids. Numerous oil globules in each cell. Method of asexual reproduction unknown. Polyedriopsis initially described as Polyedriopsis spinulosa Schmidle from Sweden in freshwater phytoplankton; known from northern Europe and South America.

Information contributed by: P. Compère. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2021-10-05 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 feminine.

Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Kawai, H. & Nakayama, T. (2015). Introduction (Heterokontobionta p.p.), Cryptophyta, Dinophyta, Haptophyta, Heterokontophyta (except Coscinodiscophyceae, Mediophyceae, Fragilariophyceae, Bacillariophyceae, Phaeophyceae, Eustigmatophyceae), Chlorarachniophyta, Euglenophyta. In: Syllabus of plant families. Adolf Engler's Syllabus der Pflanzenfamilien. Ed. 13. Phototrophic eukaryotic Algae. Glaucocystophyta, Cryptophyta, Dinophyta/Dinozoa, Haptophyta, Heterokontophyta/Ochrophyta, Chlorarachnniophyta/Cercozoa, Chlorophyta, Streptophyta p.p. (Frey, W. Eds), pp. 11-64, 103-139. Stuttgart: Borntraeger Science Publishers.

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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 October 2021. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 24 April 2024