Chaetosphaeridium Klebahn, 1892

Holotype species: Chaetosphaeridium pringsheimii Klebahn

Original publication and holotype designation: Klebahn, H. (1892). Chaetosphaeridium Pringsheimii, novum genus et nova species chlorophycearum aquae dulcis. Jahrbücher für wissenschaftliche Botanik 24: 268-282.

Description: Branched filaments of globose or flask-shaped cells, sometimes appearing as gelatinous colony of unicells. Cells 9-22 um in diameter; in some species connected by long, gelatinous, tubular walls. Each cell bears a single sheathed hair similar to those of Coleochaete; cultured clones have been observed to produce more than 1 hair per cell. One or 2 plate-like, parietal chloroplasts per cell, each with single pyrenoid. Asexual reproduction by biflagellate, scaly zoospores similar to Coleochaete, produced 2-4 per cell. Sexual reproduction observed in one species; oogamous; eggs and sperm discharged; naked eggs and walled zygotes up to twice as large as vegetative cells. Chaetosphaeridium attached to larger algae, aquatic macrophytes and inorganic substrata in freshwater; may occur in plankton; tropical, temperate and arctic/antarctic. Ultrastructure of zoospores similar to Coleochaete and suggests relationship to ancestry of embryophytes.

Information contributed by: L.E. Graham. 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 neuter.

Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Marin, B. & Melkonian, M. (1999). Mesostigmatophyceae, a new class of streptophyte green algae revealed by SSU rRNA sequence comparisons. Protist 150: 399-417, 9 figs, 2 tables.

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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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