Thorea Bory, 1808

Lectotype species: Thorea ramosissima Bory

Currently accepted name for the type species: Thorea hispida (Thore) Desvaux

Original publication and holotype designation: Bory de Saint-Vincent, [J.B.G.M.] (1808). Sur un genre nouveau de la Cryptogamie aquatique, nomme Thorea. Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle 12: 126-135, 1 pl. [pl. 18].

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Description: Thalli multiaxial, red, reddish-brown, sometimes branched, resembling fuzzy string; assimilatory filaments loose, not embedded in a mucilaginous matrix. Sexual reproduction by spermatangia and carpogonia that are close to the base of the assimilatory filaments; spermatangia colorless, terminal or sub-terminal on assimilatory filaments. Carpogonial branches near the base of the assimilatory filaments, 0–2 (–3) short-cylindrical or barrel-shaped cells; carpogonia sessile with an ovoidal or bottle-shaped base and thin, filiform trichogynes; fertilized carpogonia giving rise directly to gonimoblast filaments; carposporophytes spherical to subspherical, consisting of a compact mass of short gonimoblast filaments with terminal carposporangia; carposporangia obovoidal to sub-spherical; monosporangia obovoidal, ellipsoidal, spherical or sub-spherical, arising from long branches on gametophytes or at filament apex for "Chantransia."

Information contributed by: Vis & Necchi (2021: 113).. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2022-04-12 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 feminine.

Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Vis, M.L. & Necchi, O., Jr. (2021). Subphylum Eurhodophytina, Class Florideophyceae, Subclass Nemaliophycidae, Order Batrachospermales. In: Freshwater red algae Phylogeny, taxonomy and biogeography. ( Eds), pp. 95-128. Cham: Springer [Springer Nature Switzerland AG].

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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. 12 April 2022. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 19 April 2024