Vitreochlamys
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Scientific classification 
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| (unranked): | Viridiplantae |
| Division: | Chlorophyta |
| Class: | Chlorophyceae |
| Order: | Chlamydomonadales |
| Family: | Chlamydomonadaceae |
| Genus: | Vitreochlamys Batko |
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Vitreochlamys is a genus of green algae in the family Chlamydomonadaceae.[2] It is sometimes known by the name Sphaerellopsis, published by Aleksandr Arkadievich Korshikov. However, that name is an illegitimate later homonym, preceded by Sphaerellopsis M.C.Cooke.[3] It is commonly found in freshwater habitats.[1]
Vitreochlamys is a unicellular, free-living organism. Cells are spherical, ovoidal, or ellipsoidal, with two equal flagella at one end, and two or three contractile vacuoles at the base of the flagella. The cell wall is swollen, giving the appearance of a layer surrounding the protoplast. Cells contain a single large chloroplast filling the cell, with pyrenoids and a stigma. Asexual reproduction occurs by the formation of zoospores within the parent cell wall; sexual reproduction has not been observed.[1] Species are distinguished from each other by their cell shape, number of contractile vacuoles and pyrenoids, location of the cell nucleus, and degree of longitudinal striation of the chloroplasts.[3]
The swollen cell wall is gelatinous, and similar in composition to the gelatinous matrices of other colonial algae, such as the Volvocaceae.[3]
As currently circumscribed, the genus Vitreochlamys is known to be polyphyletic.[3]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c Nakada, Takashi; Nozaki, Hisayoshi (2014). "Chapter 6. Flagellate Green Algae". In Wehr, John D.; Sheath, Robert G.; Kociolek, J. Patrick (eds.). Freshwater Algae of North America: Ecology and Classification (2 ed.). Elsevier Inc. ISBN 978-0-12-385876-4.
- ^ See the NCBI webpage on Vitreochlamys. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2007-03-19.
- ^ a b c d Nakazawa, Atsushi; Krienitz, Lothar; Nozaki, Hisayoshi (2001). "Taxonomy of the unicellular green algal genus Vitreochlamys (Volvocales), based on comparative morphology of cultured material". European Journal of Phycology. 36 (2): 113–128. doi:10.1017/S0967026201003183.
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