Mallomonas hexareticulata

Mallomonas hexareticulata is a species of heterokont algae. It is a tiny free-living cell, about the width of a human hair. It has ornate scales and bristles, as well as long spines. It is a relatively common part of lake or pond plankton. It differs from its cogenerates by the number, distribution, and size of its base plate pores, the secondary structures on the scale surfaces, together with characteristics of its bristles.[1][2]

Mallomonas hexareticulata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Chromista
Phylum: Ochrophyta
Class: Synurophyceae
Order: Synurales
Family: Mallomonadaceae
Genus: Mallomonas
Species:
M. hexareticulata
Binomial name
Mallomonas hexareticulata
Jo et al., 2013

References

  1. Peter Siver (6 December 2012). The Biology of Mallomonas: Morphology, Taxonomy and Ecology. Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 17–. ISBN 978-94-011-3376-0.
  2. Jo, Bok Yeon; Shin, Woongghi; Kim, Han Soon; Siver, Peter A.; Andersen, Robert A. (2013). "Phylogeny of the genusMallomonas(Synurophyceae) and descriptions of five new species on the basis of morphological evidence". Phycologia. 52 (3): 266–278. doi:10.2216/12-107.1. ISSN 0031-8884.

Further reading

  • Wei, Yin‐Xin, Xiu‐Ping Yuan, and Jørgen Kristiansen. "Silica‐scaled chrysophytes from Hainan, Guangdong Provinces and Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China." Nordic Journal of Botany 32.6 (2014): 881-896.
  • Gusev, E. S. "A New Species in Genus Mallomonas Perty (Synurales, Chrysophyceae) from Vietnam." International Journal on Algae 17.4 (2015).


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