Diacronema noctivaga (Kalina) Bendif & Véron 2011
Publication Details
Diacronema noctivaga (Kalina) Bendif & Véron 2011: 757
Published in: Bendif, El M., Probert, I., Hervé, A., Billard, C., Goux, D., Lelong, C., Cadoret, J.-P. & Véron, B. (2011). Integrative taxonomy of the Pavlovophyceae (Haptophyta): a reassessment. Protist 162: 738-761.
Request PDFPublication date: November 2011
Type Species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Diacronema is Diacronema vlkianum Prauser.
Status of Name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Basionym
Corcontochrysis noctivaga Kalina
Type Information
Type locality: Czechoslovakia: Riesengebirge: Krkonossky národní park ; (Index Nominum Algarum) Type: pl. XXII: fig. J: (Index Nominum Algarum)
General Environment
This is a freshwater species.
Description
Free living cells mainly ovate or elongate with appendages
inserted near a red eyespot. Three remarkably unequal
appendages with a hairy anterior flagellum covered by knob
scales and a naked posterior flagellum with slight distal attenuation.
Absence of body scales. Brown plastid with a layer
of eyespot globules present on the external face near the
appendage insertion, without a pyrenoid. A pulsate vacuole
connected to the flagellar pit. Occurrence of non-motiles
colonies with stratified mucilage.
Created: 25 October 2011 by M.D. Guiry.
Last updated: 16 June 2016
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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 16 June 2016. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 02 May 2024
