Symbiochlorum S.Q.Gong & Z.Yong Li, 2018

Holotype species: Symbiochlorum hainanense S.Q.Gong & Z.Yong Li

Publication details: S.Q.Gong & Z.Yong Li, 2018: 812

Original publication and holotype designation: Gong, S., Li, Z., Zhang, F., Xiao, Y. & Cheng, H. (2018). Symbiochlorum hainanensis gen. et sp. nov. (Ulvophyceae, Chlorophyta) isolated from bleached corals living in the South China Sea. Journal of Phycology 54(6): 811-817.

Description: Young cells are broadly ellipsoidal up to spherical. The chloroplasts form a hollow sphere with small perforations, and contains one pyrenoid; mature cells become net-like and contain several pyrenoids. The cells uninucleate. The cell wall is relatively thin and becomes thicker with age. Reproduction occurs through zoospores and aplanospores. Zoospores are quadriflagellated with anterior stigma. The chloroplasts of the zoospores are parietal and slightly perforated, with one pyrenoid. The zoospores are surrounded by thin cell walls and become spherical after moving.

Information contributed by: Emended description by Darienko & Pröschold (2024: 11).. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2025-02-12 by Paul Gabrielson.

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: Darienko, T. & Pröschold, T. (2024). Solotvynia, a new coccoid lineage among the Ulvophyceae (Chlorophyta). Microorganisms 12(868): 1–13.

Taxonomic note
Ulvophyceae (Gong et al., 2018). - (21 February 2019) - G.M. Guiry

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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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Paul Gabrielson in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 12 February 2025. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 30 June 2025