Aurosphaera J.Schiller, 1916
Lectotype species: Aurosphaera ovalis J.Schiller
Publication details: J.Schiller, 1916: 303
Original publication: Schiller, J. (1916). Eine neue kieselschalige Protophyten-Gattung aus der Adria. Archiv für Protistenkunde 36(3): 303-310, 5 figures.
Request PDFType designated in: Bourrelly, P. (1957). Recherches sur les Chrysophycées. Morphologie, phylogénie, systématique. Revue Algologique, Mémoire Hors-Série 1: 1-412, 32 figures, 11 plates.
Description: Cells solitary, globular, ovoid-flattened, on the surface with numerous tapering siliceous bristles with enlarged bases. Two-4 yellow-brownish chloroplasts. Reproduction by autospores and uniflagellate zoospores, 4-8 per cell. In marine phytoplankton, common in the Adriatic Sea.
Information contributed by: J. Kristiansen. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2024-11-13 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: Kawai, H. & Nakayama, T. (2015). Introduction (Heterokontobionta p.p.), Cryptophyta, Dinophyta, Haptophyta, Heterokontophyta (except Coscinodiscophyceae, Mediophyceae, Fragilariophyceae, Bacillariophyceae, Phaeophyceae, Eustigmatophyceae), Chlorarachniophyta, Euglenophyta. In: Syllabus of plant families. Adolf Engler's Syllabus der Pflanzenfamilien. Ed. 13. Phototrophic eukaryotic Algae. Glaucocystophyta, Cryptophyta, Dinophyta/Dinozoa, Haptophyta, Heterokontophyta/Ochrophyta, Chlorarachnniophyta/Cercozoa, Chlorophyta, Streptophyta p.p. (Frey, W. Eds), pp. 11-64, 103-139. Stuttgart: Borntraeger Science Publishers.
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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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E.A. Molinari Novoa in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 13 November 2024. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 16 June 2025
