Characidiopsis Pascher, 1938

Lectotype species: Characidiopsis acuta Pascher

Original publication and holotype designation: Pascher, A. (1938). Heterokonten. In: Kryptogamen-Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. (Rabenhorst, L. Eds) Vol. 11, Teil 5, pp. 641-832. Leipzig: Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft.

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Description: Solitary cells globular, ovoid or fusiform with smooth cell walls. Cells often elevated with a more or less elongated stipe attached to substrate by a mucilaginous disk. Chloroplasts one or many and parietal. Contractile vacuoles and stigma always present. Cells up to 30 _m long; style up to 15 _m long. Asexual reproduction by formation of zoospores with two unequal flagella. Characidiopsis epizoic on copepods (Cyclops O. F. Mueller) or epiphytic on algae (Anabaena, Spirogyra) or aquatic macrophytes (Lemma L.) or floating detritus; known only from Europe. Species distinguished based on cell morphology and dimensions.

Information contributed by: I. M. Franceschini. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2022-12-20 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: Barcyte, D., Zátopková, M., Némková, Y., Richtář, M., Yurchenko, T., Jaške, K., Fawley, K.P., Škaloud, P., Ševčiková, T., Fawley, M.W. & Eliáš, M. (2022). Redefining Chlorobotryaceae as one of the principal and most diverse lineages of eustigmatophyte algae. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 177: 19 pp, 7 fig., 1 table.

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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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