Fluitomonas Skvortsov, 1971

Holotype species: Fluitomonas elliptica Skvortsov

Original publication and holotype designation: Skvortsov, B.V. (1971). New genera of primitive green Flagellata of Fam. Pedinomonadaceae Korsch., Class Volvocineae collected in Winter cold period in São Paulo. Boletín de la Sociedad Botánica La Libertad 3(2): 83-93.

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Description: Unicellular, free-swimming flagellates with single anterior flagellum. Cells not metabolic, flattened, elliptical/ovate, anterior and posterior broadly rounded. Cell movement creeping or semirotating. Chloroplast parietal, pale green, in the type species without pyrenoid, in other species with pyrenoid. A stigma is present in the posterior part or lacking. A distinct contractile vacuole present anteriorly in some species, lacking in others. Species of this genus were said by the author to differ from Pedinomonas in having elongate/elliptical cells with elliptical chloroplasts. However this shape occurs also in Pedinomonas, from which Fluitomonas seems to differ only in the anterior rather than lateral insertion of the flagellum. The type species is 15-18 µm long, i.e. much longer than any known species of Pedinomonas, with which the genus may be merged if it can be found again. The 6 species differ in cell shape, presence or absence of pyrenoid, eyespot and contractile vacuole.

Information contributed by: Øjvind Moestrup. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2023-05-30 by E.A. Molinari Novoa.

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

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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. 30 May 2023. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 18 April 2024