Kintokiocolax Tak.Tanaka & Y.Nozawa, 1960

Holotype species: Kintokiocolax aggregatoceranthus Tak.Tanaka & Y.Nozawa

Original publication and holotype designation: Tanaka, T. & Nozawa, Y. (1960). One red algal parasite from Japan. Mem. Fac. Fish. Kagoshima Univ. 9: 107-112.

Description: Small, clustered, wartlike parasite of Prionitis, yellowish white to pale pink. Medulla of large cuboidal cells, with secondary pit connections, occasional filamentous cells (no rhizoidal filaments). Cortex of progressively smaller ellipsoidal cells. Carpogonium and auxiliary cell in ampullae, branched at most to two orders. Carpogonial branch 2-celled. Auxiliary cell first or second cell of primary or first cell of secondary filament; auxiliary cell branch sometimes unbranched. Fertilized carpogonium producing connecting filament(s?) that contacts auxiliary cell; a secondary connecting filament issuing from opposite side of auxiliary cell. Gonimoblast initial cutting off multiple gonimoblast cells. Elongate lateral vegetative filaments developing concommitantly with gonimoblast development. Cystocarp compact, spherical or hemispherical, in medulla; most gonimoblast cells maturing into carposporangia. Spermatangia unknown. Tetrasporophyte isomorphic. Tetrasporangia attached subbasally in outer cortex.

Information contributed by: S.C. Lindstrom & J.A. Lewis. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2022-04-06 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: Kim, S.Y., Lee, H.W., Yang, E.C., Boo, S.M., Lopez-Bautista, J., Fredericq, S., D’Archino, R., Yoon, H.S., & Kim, M.S. (2021). Resurrection of the family Grateloupiaceae emend. (Halymeniales, Rhodophyta) based on a multigene phylogeny and comparative reproductive morphology. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 9(775627): 1-13, 4 figs, 1 table.

Comments: Known only from Pacific coast of Japan: Chiba, Wakayama and Kagoshima Prefectures.

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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. 06 April 2022. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 25 April 2024