Trichophilus Weber-van Bosse, 1887

Holotype species: Trichophilus welckeri Weber Bosse

Original publication and holotype designation: Weber-van Bosse, A. (1887). Étude sur les algues parasites des Paresseux. Verhandelingen van de Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen te Haarlem serie 3 5(1): 1-24, pls I-III.

Description: Plants pseudoparenchymatous, consisting of prostrate, irregularly branched, uniseriate to partly multiseriate filaments. Cells uninucleate, thick-walled, each with parietal chloroplast and pyrenoid difficult to discern . Asexual reproduction by quadriflagellate zoospores of two sizes. Sexual reproduction unknown. Grows on or within the hairs of sloths and on shells of freshwater molluscs in South America. Closely resembles the genus Entocladia.

Information contributed by: D.M. John. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2013-04-08 by M.D. Guiry.

Taxonomic status: This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.

Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Suutari, M, Majaneva, M., Fewer, D.P., Voirin, B., Aiello, A., Friedl, T., Chiarello, A.G. & Blomster, J. (2010). Molecular evidence for a diverse green algal community growing in the hair of sloths and a specific association with Trichophilus welckeri (Chlorophyta, Ulvophyceae). BMC Evolutionary Biology 10(86): 1-12.

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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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