Pleurotaenium

Pleurotaenium
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Charophyta
Class: Zygnematophyceae
Order: Desmidiales
Family: Desmidiaceae
Genus: Pleurotaenium
Species
  • P. ehrenbergii
  • P. trabecula
Synonyms
  • Pleurotaenium Nageli

In taxonomy, Pleurotaenium is a genus of green algae, specifically of the Placoderm desmids (Desmidiaceae).[1]

Morphology

Long, cylindrical, bilaterally symmetrical unicells with blunt ends. Ring-like thickening in the central area where the two semicells join. In a good specimen, very delightful to look at due to obvious intracellular activity, especially at the ends.

Reproduction

Asexual: cells arise from the partitioned parent cell

Sexual: Conjugation (transmission of DNA through nucleus fusion to form a hypnozygote or zygospore, which is a term for a zygote that lies dormant until optimal conditions arise)

References

  1. ↑ See the NCBI webpage on Pleurotaenium. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2007-03-19.

Scientific references

Scientific databases

  • NCBI taxonomy page for Pleurotaenium
  • Search Tree of Life taxonomy pages for Pleurotaenium
  • Search Species2000 page for Pleurotaenium
  • Guiry, M.D.; Guiry, G.M. (2008). "Pleurotaenium". AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway.
  • AlgaTerra database
  • Index Nominum Genericorum


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