Cloniophora Tiffany, 1936

Holotype species: Cloniophora willei Tiffany

Currently accepted name for the type species: Cloniophora spicata (Schmidle) A.K.Islam

Original publication and holotype designation: Tiffany, L.H. (1936). Wille's collection of Puerto Rican freshwater algae. Brittonia 2: 165-176, 3 pls.

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Description: Branched, uniseriate filaments, up to 5 cm in length, fixed at the base by a system of profuse rhizoids. Main filaments composed of cylindrical or inflated, rarely capitate cells with one large belt-like chloroplast with lobed margin, containing numerous pyrenoids. Primary branches produced irregularly from the main filaments, formed by smaller, but morphologically similar cells. Branch tips usually rounded. Primary branches carry short, 1-few-celled secondary branches (ramuli) consisting of short cells possessing globular or parietal chloroplasts with 1–2 pyrenoids. Asexual reproduction by biflagellate zoospores produced in cells near apices of secondary branches, 8 or more per cell, released through a lateral papilla.

Information contributed by: Škaloud et al. 2018. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2022-10-18 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: Carlile, A.L., O'Kelly, C.J. & Sherwood, A.R. (2011). The green algal genus Cloniophora represents a novel lineage in the Ulvales: a proposal for Cloniophoraceae fam. nov.. Journal of Phycology 47(6): 1379-1387.

Comments: Widely reported from freshwater and brackish water in the tropics and New Zealand. Species defined on the size and shape of cells.

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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. 18 October 2022. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 20 April 2024