Exanthemachrysis gayraliae H.Lepailleur
Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Chromista
Phylum Haptophyta
Class Pavlovophyceae
Subclass Pavlovophycidae
Order Pavlovales
Family Pavlovaceae
Genus Exanthemachrysis
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Publication details
Exanthemachrysis gayraliae H.Lepailleur 1970: 931
Original publication: Lepailleur, H. (1970). Sur un nouveau genre de Chrysophycées: Exanthemachrysis nov. gen. (E. gayralii nov. sp.). Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Academie des Sciences, Paris 270: 928-931.
Type species
This is the type species (holotype) of the genus Exanthemachrysis.
Status of name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Synonym(s)
No synonyms are currently included in AlgaeBase.
General environment
This is a marine species.
Description
Dominant stage of non-motile cells slightly ovate, embedded in
a multilayered mucilage. Brownish-green parietal plastid with a
bulging pyrenoid forming a protuberance on the cell body. Motile
metabolic cells with three naked appendages and a distal string
of pearl-like structures on the posterior flagellum attenuation.
Bulging pyrenoid delimited from chloroplast stroma by globules
forming an eyespot near the insertion of the appendages.
Distribution by country
Detailed distribution with sources
(as Exanthemachrysis gayraliae H.Lepailleur)
Europe: Britain (Parke & Dixon 1976).
North America: Arkansas (Smith 2010).
Key references
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: 783-761.
Nakayama, T., Yoshida, M., Noël, M.-H., Kawachi, M. & Inouye, I. (2005). Ultrastructure and phylogenetic position of Chrysoculter rhomhoideus gen. et sp. nov. (Prymnesiophyceae), a new flagellate haptophyte from Japanese coastal waters. Phycologia 44: 369-383.
Parke, M. & Dixon, P.S. (1976). Check-list of British marine algae - third revision. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 56: 527-594.
SAG Cultures
SAG Cultures may be viewed at http://sagdb.uni-goettingen.de/showstrains.php?genus=Exanthemachrysis&species=gayraliae
SCCAP Cultures
Cultures from the Scandinavian Culture Collection of Algae at the University of Copenhagen (SCCAP) and Protozoa may be viewed at http://www.sccap.dk/search/algaebase.asp?Genus=Exanthemachrysis&Species=gayraliae
Created: 03 September 2002 by Olivia Fitzgerald
Verified by: 25 October 2011 by M.D. Guiry
Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 446 times since it was created.
References
(Please note: only references with the binomials in the title are included. The information is from the Literature database.)
Fresnel, J., Galle, P. & Gayral, P. (1979). Résultats de la microanalyse des cristaux vacuolaires chez deux Chromophytes unicellulaires marines: Exanthemachrysis gayraliae, Pavlova sp. (Prymnésiophycées, Pavlovacées). Compte Rendu Hebdomadaire des Séances de lAcadémie des Sciences. Paris. Série D 288: 823-825.
Linking to this page: http://www.algaebase.org/search/species/detail/?species_id=55079
Citing AlgaeBase
Cite this record as:
M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2013.
AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org; searched on 19 June 2013.
Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:80484
