Phaeomonas parva D.Honda & Inouye 2002
Publication Details
Phaeomonas parva D.Honda & Inouye 2002: 77-81, figs 1-43
Published in: Honda, D. & Inouye, I. (2002). Ultrastructure and taxonomy of a marine photosynthetic stramenopile Phaeomonas parva gen. et sp. nov. (Pinguiophyceae) with emphasis on the flagellare apparatus architecture. Phycological Research 50(1): 75-90.
Request PDFPublication date: March 2002
Type Species
This is the type species (holotype) of the genus Phaeomonas.
Status of Name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Type Information
Type locality: 7º48'N, 146º46'E, near the Caroline Islands; (Honda & Inouye 2002: 76) Holotype: 30 November 1990; TNS (National Science Museum, Tokyo); TNS-AL- 48982 (glass slide) (Honda & Inouye 2002: 77) Notes: Isotype: TNS-AL 49070 (resin-embedded EM block). Type culture: Living material deposited as strain MBIC-10503 in the Marine Biotechnology Institute Co. Ltd, Kamaishi Laboratory, Japan.
Origin of Species Name
Adjective (Latin), little, small, puny (Stearn 1973).
General Environment
This is a marine species.
Description
Motile cell, unicellular flagellate, spherical to ovoid, 4.0-4.6 µm long and 3.2-4.0 µm wide; anterior flagellum 8.0-11.5 µm long, posterior flagellum 5.5-6.0 µm long; flagellar swelling in posterior flagellum; single chloroplast cup-shaped, occupying posterior half portion of the cell; single pyrenoid filling chloroplast cavity; propagation by means of binary division in non-motile stage in dark period.
Created: 26 April 2002 by M.D. Guiry.
Last updated: 18 July 2023
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E.A. Molinari Novoa in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 18 July 2023. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 19 April 2024
