Thaurilens Pavillard, 1917

Holotype species: Thaurilens denticulata Pavillard

Publication details: Pavillard, 1917: 926

Original publication and holotype designation: Pavillard, J. (1917). Protistes nouveaux ou peu connus du plankton méditerranéen. Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences 164: 925-928.

Description: Small (ca. 20 µm) lens-shaped cell with irregularly distributed small horns. Cells seem to contain a dinokaryotic nucleus. Insufficiently described, has been seen to move but apparently no flagella. In shape, it resembles the genus Dinastridium Pascher, so far described only from fresh water. (Dinastridium, may be a cyst of another motile dinoflagellate). Also it resembles the cyst genus Stelladinium Bradford. Needs reinvestigation. So far only reported by its author in a coastal lagoon of the French Mediterranean.

Information contributed by: M. Elbrächter. 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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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 26 May 2017. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 03 July 2025