Rosenvingiella

Rosenvingiella
Type of Ulothrix radicans Kütz. now known as Rosenvingiella radicans
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Clade: Viridiplantae
Division: Chlorophyta
Class: Trebouxiophyceae
Order: Prasiolales
Family: Prasiolaceae
Genus: Rosenvingiella
P.C.Silva
Type species
Rosenvingiella polyrhiza
(Rosenvinge) P.C.Silva[1]
Species

See below

Rosenvingiella is a genus of green algae in the family Prasiolaceae.[2] Members of this genus are found in marine (particularly intertidal) or terrestrial habitats.[3]

The genus was first circumscribed by Janus Lauritz Andreas Kolderup Rosenvinge, generally cited as Lauritz Kolderup Rosenvinge (1858–1939), who was a Danish botanist and phycologist.[4] Rosenvinge named the genus Gayella, but this was junior homonym of Gayella Pierre (a flowering plant in the family Sapotaceae). Therefore, the genus was renamed to Rosenvingiella by Paul Claude Silva in 1957, honoring its original author.[5][6]

Description

Rosenvingiella consists of uniseriate (one cell wide) filaments of cells, later becoming multiseriate and pseudoparenchymatous. The filaments are attached to a substrate via a unicellular rhizoid, either found singly or in pairs.[3] Cells are shorter than wide, containing a single stellate chloroplast with a single central pyrenoid. Asexual reproduction occurs via the formation of nonmotile spores, while sexual reproduction is oogamous and involves oogonia and male gametes with two flagella.[7]

Rosenvingiella is similar in morphology to Prasiola, and has often been considered a synonym of the latter. Molecular phylogenetic analyses have shown the two genera to be separate: they can be distinguished by morphological characters of the gametangia and rhizoids.[6] The genus Rosenvingiellopsis was also separated from Rosenvingiella based on molecular data.[8]

Species

As accepted by WoRMS;[1]

Former species;[1]

  • R. australis S.Heesch & W.A.Nelson, 2012 accepted as Rosenvingiella tasmanica M.B.J.Moniz, Rindi & Guiry, 2012
  • R. constricta (Setchell & N.L.Gardner) P.C.Silva, 1957 accepted as Rosenvingiellopsis constricta (Setchell & N.L.Gardner) Heesch, M.Pazoutová & Rindi, 2016

References

  1. ^ a b c "Rosenvingiella P.C.Silva, 1957". www.marinespecies.org. WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 4 October 2022.
  2. ^ See the NCBI webpage on Rosenvingiella. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2007-03-19.
  3. ^ a b John, David M.; Rindi, Fabio (2014). "Chapter 8. Filamentous (Nonconjugating) and Plantlike Green Algae". In Wehr, John D.; Sheath, Robert G.; Kociolek, J. Patrick (eds.). Freshwater Algae of North America: Ecology and Classification (2 ed.). Elsevier Inc. ISBN 978-0-12-385876-4.
  4. ^ Burkhardt, Lotte (2022). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen [Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8. S2CID 246307410. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
  5. ^ Paul C Silva (1957). "Notes on Pacific marine algae". Madroño. 14 (2): 41–51. ISSN 0024-9637. JSTOR 41422907. Wikidata Q93973571.
  6. ^ a b Rindi, Fabio; McIvor, Lynne; Guiry, Michael D. (2004). "The Prasiolales (Chlorophyta) of Atlantic Europe: an assessment based on morphological, molecular, and ecological data, including the characterization of Rosenvingiella radicans (Kützing) comb. nov". Journal of Phycology. 40 (5): 977–997. Bibcode:2004JPcgy..40..977R. doi:10.1111/j.1529-8817.2004.04012.x.
  7. ^ D. M. John; Brian A. Whitton; Alan J. Brook, eds. (2002). The freshwater algal flora of the British Isles: an identification guide to freshwater and terrestrial algae. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-77051-4.
  8. ^ 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.


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