Apatococcus F.Brand, 1925

Holotype species: Apatococcus vulgaris F.Brand

Publication details: F.Brand, 1925: 348

Currently accepted name for the type species: Apatococcus lobatus (Chodat) J.B.Petersen

Original publication and holotype designation: Brand, F. & Stockmayer, S. (1925). Analyse der aerophilen Grünalgenanflüge, insbesondere der proto- pleurococcoiden Formen. Archiv für Protistenkunde 52: 265-355, plate 11.

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Description: Cells spherical or flattened, arranged in cell packets, which are formed by successive, vertically directed divisions. Occasionally with beginnings of short thread formation. Cell wall with a smooth to rough surface, only slightly thickened with age. Chloroplast in young cells always parietal, in older cells partially detached from the cell wall and folded to 2-lobed on the surface; without pyrenoid. Asexual reproduction through zoospores or aplanospores.

Information contributed by: Beck (2002: 94 from the German). The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2025-01-24 by Luka Sato.

Taxonomic status: This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.

Gender: This genus name is currently treated as masculine.

Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Zahradníková, M., Andersen, H.L., Tønsberg, T. & Beck, A. (2017). Molecular evidence of Apatococcus, including A. fuscideae sp. nov., as photobiont in the genus Fuscidea. Protist 168: 425-438, 4 fig., 4 tables.

Taxonomic note
Although the type was referred to Pleurastrum R. Chodat 1894 by Printz in Engler and Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. ed. 2. 3: 209. 1927 [ING], the name is currently in use taxonomically. - (28 September 2021) - M.D. Guiry

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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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Luka Sato in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 24 January 2025. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 25 May 2025