Protozoa Guide review

Nematochrysopsis

genus

Description

Uniseriate filaments attached to the substrate with a gelatinous holdfast; cell wall thick and appearing laminate in some electron micrographs ; terminus of the filament sometimes broken and erroneously giving the appearance of a Tribonema-like (Xanthophyceae) H-shaped cell wall structure; typically with 4 yellow-brown parietal chloroplasts; stalked pyrenoids present; zoospores with a longer anteriorly directed flagellum bearing tripartite tubular hairs that lack lateral filaments and a shorter posteriorly directed flagellum lacking tripartite hairs ; palmelloid stage was reported in original description; marine . See Chadefaud ( 1 9 4 7) ; Gayral and Lepailleur (1971 ); Billard (1984) . 2000 (= Tribonema marinum Feldmann , 1 941 ; Nematochrysopsis roscoffensis Chadefaud, 1 9 4 7 ; Nematochrysopsis roscoffensis f. giganteus Billard, 1988). Filaments 8-15 (17) !lm diameter; cells 1 5-30 j..lm long . See Feldmann ( 1941), Chadefaud ( 194 7) , Gayral and PELAGOPHYCEA Lepaill eur (197 1) , Billard (1984 , 1988) , Hoffmann et al. (2 000) . Golgi body ; M, mitochondrion ; N, nucleus ; W , cell wall. Scal e= 500 nm.

Type species

Nematochrysopsis marina (Feldmann , 1941) Billard in Hoffmann et al ,

Figures

Figure 7
Fig. 7
Nematochrysopsis roscoffensis. a. Typical

Raw text

Uniseriate filaments attached to the substrate
with a gelatinous holdfast; cell wall thick and
appearing laminate in some electron micrographs ;
terminus of the filament sometimes broken and
erroneously giving the appearance of a
Tribonema-like (Xanthophyceae) H-shaped cell
wall structure; typically with 4 yellow-brown
parietal chloroplasts; stalked pyrenoids present;
zoospores with a longer anteriorly directed
flagellum bearing tripartite tubular hairs that
lack lateral filaments and a shorter posteriorly
directed flagellum lacking tripartite hairs ;
palmelloid stage was reported in original
description; marine . See Chadefaud ( 1 9 4 7) ;
Gayral and Lepailleur (1971 ); Billard (1984) .
2000 (= Tribonema marinum Feldmann , 1 941 ;
Nematochrysopsis roscoffensis Chadefaud, 1 9 4 7 ;
Nematochrysopsis roscoffensis f. giganteus
Billard, 1988). Filaments 8-15 (17) !lm
diameter; cells 1 5-30 j..lm long . See Feldmann
( 1941), Chadefaud ( 194 7) , Gayral and
PELAGOPHYCEA
Lepaill eur (197 1) , Billard (1984 , 1988) ,
Hoffmann et al. (2 000) .
Golgi body ; M, mitochondrion ; N, nucleus ; W , cell
wall. Scal e= 500 nm.