Neostromatella monostromatica M.J.Wynne, G.Furnari & R.Nielsen 2014
Publication Details
Neostromatella monostromatica M.J.Wynne, G.Furnari & R.Nielsen 2014: 517, figs 1, 2
Published in: Wynne, M.J. & Furnari, G. (2014). A census of J.P.L. [sic] Dangeard's invalid taxa with proposals to resolve the nomenclatural problems of some of them. Nova Hedwigia 98(3-4): 515-517.
Type Species
This is the type species (holotype) of the genus Neostromatella.
Status of Name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Type Information
Type locality: Vodice, Croatia; (Wynne & Furnari 2014: 517) Notes: Holotype: a slide preparation in C (CAT 2479 in the list of type specimens). Made for a culture isolated
by Ruth Nielsen from a specimen collected at Vodice, Croatia (43°45'N, 15°47'E); found on a dead
mollusk shell in the littoral, 27 May 1978. Additional illustrations in Nielsen (1988a, Figs 117, as
Stromatella monostromatica), in Nielsen (1988b, Figs 22ah, as Stromatella monostromatica), and
in Dangeard (1965a: pl. I, Figs 813; pl. III, Fig. 1, as Stromatella monostromatica).
Origin of Species Name
Adjective (Latin), with a single layer (Stearn 1973).
General Environment
This is a marine species.
Description
Thallus epiphytic, monostromatic crusts, interior of thallus consisting of compact
angular cells, 8-12 µm long and 6-8 µm in width; thallus pseudoparenchymatous
in central region and irregularly filamentous toward periphery; filaments percurrent,
laterally branched, made up of elongate cells, 6-15 µm long and 4-5 µm in width; cells
with a single chloroplast with a single pyrenoid. Cells forming globular sporangia, with
a diameter of 8-12 µm, usually forming 8 zoospores, but rarely 4 zoospores are formed
or as many as 1216 zoospores per sporangium. Release of zoospores takes place in a
round hole in the sporangial wall. Thalli grow on mollusk shells and on seagrasses. It
differs from related taxa mainly in its monostromatic thallus, in its bicellular germlings
and young plants with a bilateral symmetry.
Habitat
Growing on different kinds of substrata (stones, mollusc shells, seaweeds and seagrasses).
Created: 16 April 2014 by M.D. Guiry.
Last updated: 17 February 2020
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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 17 February 2020. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 25 April 2024
