Dunaliella Teodoresco, 1905

Holotype species: Dunaliella salina (Dunal) Teodoresco

Original publication and holotype designation: Teodoresco, E.C. (1905). Organisation et développement du Dunaliella, nouveau genre de Volvocacée - Polyblepharidée. Beihefte zum Botanischen Centralblatt 18(Abt. 1): 215-232.

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Description: Unicellular,biflagellate and uninucleate algae without cellulosic cell walls, oftenwith considerable metaboly. Cells fusiform, ellipsoid, ovoid, obovoid,globose or depressed-globose. Anterior end usually rounded or slightlyacuminate; posterior end rounded, or in some cases, caudate. Chloroplastparietal and principally cup-shaped; pyrenoid and stigma present orabsent. Nucleus typically in anterior end along with two contractilevacuoles, these may be quite indistinct in freshwater. Cytoplasmicorganization may be masked by accumulations of haematochrome pigment.Asexualreproduction by cell division sometimes giving rise to a palmelloid stage;occasionally cells become encysted. Sexual reproduction by fusion ofisogametes; zygote typically thin walled, occasionally ornamented. Upongermination, 4-8(-16) zoospores released.

Information contributed by: G.E. Dillard. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2012-01-23 by M.D. Guiry.

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

Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Throndsen, J. (1996). The planktonic marine flagellates. In: Identifying marine phytoplankton. (Tomas, C.R. Eds), pp. 591-730. San Diego: Academic Press.

Comments: Dunaliella spp. widely distributed in marine or brackish waterhabitats. Four species, D. acidophila (Kalina) Masjuk, D. carpaticaMasjuk, D. lateralis Pascher et Jahoda and D. pauperaPascher, may be found in freshwater or slightly brackish habitats; otherspecies, notably D. salina and D. viridis Teodoresco, may befound in inland salterns and brine lakes.

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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. 23 January 2012. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 10 December 2023