Guillardia D.R.A.Hill & R.Wetherbee, 1990

Holotype species: Guillardia theta D.R.A.Hill & R.Wetherbee

Original publication and holotype designation: Hill, D.R.A. & Wetherbee, R. (1990). Guillardia theta gen. et sp. nov. (Cryptophyceae). Canadian Journal of Botany 68: 1873-1876.

Precise date of publication: 3 Oct 1990

Description: Free-swimming, perpetually motile, elliptic, biflagellate monads; the furrow-gullet system consisting of a tubular gullet extending posteriorly from the subapical vestibulum, there is no furrow, the gullet being lined with usually two to four longitudinal rows of ejectisomes; with a single chloroplast, pyrenoid and nucleomorph, the chloroplast with the phycobiliprotein Cr-phycoerythrin 545, and varying in color from orange to red-brown, fading to yellow in older cells. Sexual reproduction is unknown, reproduction being by simple cell division. Cysts are unknown and palmelloid colonies not formed. The ultrastructure has been examined. The periplast structure is somewhat unusual, consisting of an inner component sheet that is closely appressed to the plasma membrane. The superficial component consists of long longitudinally oriented plates composed of minute subunits. The nucleomorph is not associated with the pyrenoid. The pyrenoidal matrix is not traversed by thylakoids. The rhizostyle consists of a curved band of microtubules possessing keels running down the ventral surface. Guillardia theta was isolated from Milford Harbour, Connecticut and is only known from that locality. It appears to have an absolute growth requirement for nitrogen in an ammonium form.

Information contributed by: D.R.A. Hill. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2017-05-26 by M.D. Guiry.

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

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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