Trichosarcina

Trichosarcina
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Supergroup: Archaeplastida
Clade: Viridiplantae
Division: Chlorophyta
Class: Ulvophyceae
Order: Ulotrichales
Family: incertae sedis
Genus: Trichosarcina
H.W.Nichols & Bold, 1965, nom. inval.
Species:
T. polymorpha
Binomial name
Trichosarcina polymorpha
H.W.Nichols & Bold

Trichosarcina is a genus of green algae in the order Ulotrichales. Filoprotococcus was once regarded as a synonym. However, Filoprotococcus is now considered valid in its own right. Trichosarcina is considered to be of uncertain validity.

As of February 2022, AlgaeBase accepted only one species, Trichosarcina polymorpha. Its life cycle includes a uniseriate, Hormidium-like phase; a pluriseriate stage, and, finally, a chain of sarcinoid packets which may dissociate. The cells are uninucleate, with a parietal chloroplast and single pyrenoid. Quadriflagellate zoospores are produced by cells of the pluriseriate and sarcinoid stages.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. "Genus: Trichosarcina taxonomy browser". AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. Retrieved 2022-02-28.
  2. ↑ Cole, Kathleen M.; Sheath, Robert G., eds. (1990). Biology of the Red Algae. Cambridge University Press. pp. 396–399. ISBN 978-0-521-34301-5.
  3. ↑ Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2007). "Genus: Filoprotococcus taxonomy browser". AlgaeBase version 4.2 World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. Retrieved 2018-04-10.
  4. ↑ Nichols, H. Wayne; Bold, Harold C. (1965). "Trichosarcina polymorpha Gen. et Sp. Nov". Journal of Phycology. 1 (1): 34–38. doi:10.1111/j.1529-8817.1965.tb04552.x. ISSN 0022-3646. S2CID 84762077.

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