Schizocladia E.C.Henry, K.Okuda & H.Kawai, 2003

Holotype species: Schizocladia ischiensis E.C.Henry, K.Okuda & H.Kawai

Original publication and holotype designation: Kawai, H., Maeba, S., Sasaki, H., Okuda, K. & Henry, E.C. (2003). Schizocladia ischiensis: a new filamentous marine chromophyte belonging to a new class, Schizocladiophyceae. Protist 154: 211-228.

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Description: Vegetative thallus branched filamentous, 3-7 µm in diameter containing one to two parietal plastids, light brown in color. Cell walls composed of layered fibers and including alginates, but without cellulose. Plastids typical chromophyte type, containing chlorophylls a and c, and abundant fucoxanthin. Zoospores produced in separate chambers by subdivision of vegetative cells, teardrop-shaped with two laterally inserted heterokont flagella, each with a transitional helix distal to the basal plate. Anterior flagellum longer, with tubular mastigonemes. Posterior flagellum shorter with weak green autofluorescence and a basal swelling associated with an eyespot composed of a single layer of globules within the chloroplast.

Information contributed by: Original description (combined genus and species). The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2021-10-07 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 masculine.

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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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 07 October 2021. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 05 May 2024