Aulacomonas Skuja, 1939

Holotype species: Aulacomonas submarina Skuja

Original publication and holotype designation: Skuja, H. (1939). Beitrag zur Algenflora Lettlands II. Acta Horti Botanici Universitatis Latviensis 11/12: 41-169.

Description: Unicellular,biflagellate and uninucleate algae without cellulosic cell walls. Infront view cells slightly quadrangular, the anterior angles rounded with adistinct longitudinal furrow in the periplast extending subapically toposterior end, giving the posterior a bilobed appearance. Flagella arisefrom a very small, acute papilla. In side view, cells obovoid.Cells without chlorophyll and lack a stigma. Nucleus in anterior end ofcell; contractile vacuoles present in anterior or posterior end. Asexual reproduction by cell division; sexual reproduction unknown.

Information contributed by: G.E. Dillard. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2023-05-28 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: Masjuk, N.P. & Lilitska, G.G. (2011). Dunaliellales. In: Algae of Ukraine: diversity, nomenclature, taxonomy, ecology and geography. Volume 3: Chlorophyta. (Tsarenko, P.M., Wasser, S.P. & Nevo, E. Eds), pp. 152-157. Ruggell: A.R.A. Gantner Verlag K.-G..

Comments: Aulacomonasapparently known only from fresh- or brackish waterfrom Sweden, France, Great Britain, and Latvia

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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. 28 May 2023. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 02 May 2024