Boekelovia Nicolai & Baas-Beck, 1935

Holotype species: Boekelovia hooglandii M.F.E.Nicolai & L.G.M.Baas-Becking

Original publication and holotype designation: Nicolai, M.F.E. & Baas-Becking, L.G.M. (1935). Einige Notizen über Salzflagellaten. Archiv für Protistenkunde 85: 319-328.

Description: Cells solitary, free-swimming, distinctly flattened and slightly curved when seen from the side, and triangular to cordiform in face view. Two unequal flagella inserted ventrally at some distance from the anterior end. Cell body apparently naked. Protoplast with 1-2 chloroplasts (without girdle lamellae), a single stigma and two spindle-shaped bodies of storage material lying parallel to the sides of the cell. Contractile vacuole not observed. This poorly known genus resembles Sphaleromantis (Chrysophyceae), but it has two flagella, both of which appear to be smooth (Toon and Meyer 1987). Probably it belongs to the Prymnesiophyceae (Pavlovales?) rather than to the Chrysophyceae (Ochromonadales), as suggested by Bourrelly (1981). Reproduction and stomatocysts unknown. Found in brackish waters in the Netherlands, Belgium and USA, sometimes forming dense layers on the water surface.

Information contributed by: H.R.Preisig. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2021-10-11 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 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.

Comments: Throndsen (1997: 618) record this genus as being a member of the Class Chrysophyceae.

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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. 11 October 2021. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 25 April 2024