Prasiolaceae

Prasiolaceae
Prasiola stipitata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Supergroup: Archaeplastida
Clade: Viridiplantae
Division: Chlorophyta
Class: Trebouxiophyceae
Order: Prasiolales
Family: Prasiolaceae
F.F.Blackman & A.G.Tansley
Genera

Prasiolaceae is a family of green algae in the order Prasiolales. Members of this family are found in freshwater, terrestrial, and marine habitats.

Algae in the family Prasiolaceae consist of thalli with blades a single cell thick (i.e. monostromatic). Vegetative cells are polygonal with two to four cells arranged within a parent cell wall. Each cell has a single, stellate chloroplast and a central pyrenoid.

Traditionally, it was the only family in the order Prasiolales. However, molecular phylogenetics have shown that additional algae with simple morphologies, such as Stichococcus, also belong to the same clade as this family.

Phylogeny

Molecular phylogenetic studies suggest the following relationships:

Another, older study places Prasionella as sister to Rosenvingiella. The above cladogram excludes the genus Schizogonium, which is taxonomically problematic and likely a synonym of Rosenvingiella.

References

  1. ↑ Guiry, M.D.; Guiry, G.M. "Prasiolaceae". AlgaeBase. University of Galway. Retrieved 2024-12-26.
  2. ↑ See the NCBI webpage on Prasiolaceae. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2007-03-19.
  3. ↑ Ricker, R.W. (1987). Taxonomy and biogeography of Macquarie Island seaweeds. London: British Museum (Natural History). pp. 1–344. ISBN 0-565-00998-2.
  4. ↑ Luan, R.; Huang, B.; Ding, L; Luan, S. (2009). "Two new species of family Prasiolaceae (Prasiolales, Chlorophyta) from China Sea". Acta Oceanologica Sinica. 28 (6): 118–122.
  5. 1 2 Heesch, Svenja; Pažoutová, Marie; Moniz, Mónica B.J.; Rindi, Fabio (2016). "Prasiolales (Trebouxiophyceae, Chlorophyta) of the Svalbard Archipelago: Diversity, biogeography and description of the new genera Prasionella and Prasionema". European Journal of Phycology. 51 (2): 171–187. Bibcode:2016EJPhy..51..171H. doi:10.1080/09670262.2015.1115557.
  6. ↑ Darienko, Tatyana; Pröschold, Thomas (2024). "Prasiolopsis wulf-kochii (Prasiolales, Trebouxiophyceae), a New Species Occurring in Hairs of the Sloth Bradypus tridactylus". Plants. 13 (17): 2405. Bibcode:2024Plnts..13.2405D. doi:10.3390/plants13172405. PMC 11397384. PMID 39273889.
  7. ↑ Nelson, Wendy A.; Sutherland, Judy E. (2018-04-03). "Prasionema heeschiae sp. nov. (Prasiolales, Chlorophyta) from Campbell Island, New Zealand: first record of Prasionema in the southern hemisphere". European Journal of Phycology. 53 (2): 198–207. Bibcode:2018EJPhy..53..198N. doi:10.1080/09670262.2018.1423577. ISSN 0967-0262. S2CID 90343215.
  8. ↑ Rindi, Fabio; McIvor, Lynne; Sherwood, Alison R.; Friedl, Thomas; Guiry, Michael D.; Sheath, Robert G. (2007). "Molecular phylogeny of the green algal order Prasiolales (Trebouxiophyceae, Chlorophyta)". Journal of Phycology. 43 (4): 811–822. Bibcode:2007JPcgy..43..811R. doi:10.1111/j.1529-8817.2007.00372.x.