Tetraëdriella Pascher, 1930, nom. cons.
Lectotype species: Tetraëdriella acuta Pascher
Publication details: Pascher, 1930: 423
Original publication: Pascher, A. (1930). Zur Kenntnis der heterokonten Algen. Archiv für Protistenkunde 69: 401-451.
Request PDFType designated in: Loeblich, A.R. (1967). Notes on the divisions Chlorophyta, Chrysophyta, Pyrrophyta and Xanthophyta and the family Paramastigaceae. Taxon 16(3): 230-236.
The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2025-03-02 by E.A. Molinari Novoa.
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: Eliáš, M., Amaral, R., Fawley, K.P., Fawley, M.W., Nemcová, Y., Neustupa, J., P?ibyl, P., Santos, L.M.A. & Ševcíková, T.. (2017). Eustigmatophyceae. In: Handbook of the Protists. (Archibald, J.M., Simpson, A.G.B. & Slamovits, C.H. Eds), pp. 367-406. Cham: Springer International Publishing AG.
Nomenclatural note
The genus Tetraëdriella has been conserved with the type species Tetraëdriella acuta Pascher [ING], but was also designated the type species by Loeblich (1967) and Kovácik & Komárek (1976). - (26 April 2017) - M.D. Guiry
Taxonomic note
Fawley & Fawley (2017: 101) note "Although all of the described species of Tetraëdriella are considered candidate Eustigmatophyceae (Ott et al. 2015), until the type species T. acuta can be isolated and evaluated, we can only speculate that the genus Tetraëdriella should be transferred from the Xanthophyceae to the Eustigmatophyceae. Even if T. acuta and other species of the genus were to be shown to be in the Eustigmatophyceae they may not be allied with T. subglobosa. There is a report of unpublished 18S rDNA sequence data that place two species of Tetraëdriella in the Eustigmatophyceae (Ott et al. 2015) and those results should help clarify these issues. Several species of Tetraëdriella have an orange lipid body (Ettl 1978) similar to those found in the Eustigmatophyceae, but until these species are isolated and characterized the relationships among these species are open to question." We have, as an interim measure, referred Tetraëdriella to the Eustigmataceae. - (26 April 2017) - M.D. Guiry
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E.A. Molinari Novoa in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 02 March 2025. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 09 June 2025
