Phytodinium G.A.Klebs, 1912

Holotype species: Phytodinium simplex G.A.Klebs

Publication details: G.A.Klebs, 1912: 406

Original publication and holotype designation: Klebs, G. (1912). Über Flagellaten- und Algen-ähnliche Peridineen. Verhandlungen des Naturhistorisch-medizinischen Vereins zu Heidelberg, Neue Folge 11: 369-451, 15 figures, plate 10.

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Description: Cells free-living, symmetrical, spherical or ellipsoidal. Chloroplasts yellow, parietal, disc-shaped or stellate, eyespot absent. Cell wall very thin. The coccoid cell elongates before cell division and a transverse wall is formed at right angles to the long axis. The cell contents do not contract prior to cell division but the daughter cells are released as autospores when the parent cell wall disappears. Stigma, cingulum and sulcus not observed. Zoospores unknown.

Information contributed by: Moestrup & Calado (2018). The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2024-03-10 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 neuter.

Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Moestrup, Ø. & Calado, A.J. (2018). Süßwasserflora von Mitteleuropa. Dinophyceae. Vol. 6 pp. [i]-xii, [1]-560, 421 figures. Berlin: Springer Spektrum.

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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. 10 March 2024. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 22 June 2025