Chloropicon

Chloropicon
Chloropicon sieburthii, type species
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Division:	Chlorophyta
Class:	Chloropicophyceae
Order:	Chloropicales
Family:	Chloropicaceae
Genus:	Chloropicon Lopes dos Santos & Eikrem 2017 [1]
Type species
Chloropicon sieburthii Lopes dos Santos & Eikrem 2017
Species
See text.

Chloropicon is a genus of green algae in the class Chloropicophyceae. ^{[1] [2]}

Description

Members of this genus are coccoid cells measuring 2–4 μm, characterized by having one green, often crescent-shaped chloroplast shaped with a starch grain, thylakoids that occur singly and in stacks of three, one central nucleus, one mitochondrion located between the nucleus and the chloroplast, 1–2 vacuoles present at the cell periphery that may contain particles, and a smooth surface of the cell wall. ^[1]

Taxonomy

The name Chloropicon references both its green color (chloro-) and its small size (-picon). There are 6 species in the genus: ^[1]

• Chloropicon sieburthii Lopes dos Santos & Eikrem 2017 (type species)
• Chloropicon primusLopes dos Santos & Eikrem sp. 2017
• Chloropicon roscoffensisLopes dos Santos & Eikrem 2017
• Chloropicon mariensisLopes dos Santos & Eikrem 2017
• Chloropicon laureaeLopes dos Santos & Eikrem 2017
• Chloropicon maureeniaeLopes dos Santos & Eikrem 2017

References

 This article incorporates "Chloropicophyceae, a new class of picophytoplanktonic prasinophytes" text from this source, which isby Adriana Lopes dos Santos, Thibaut Pollina, Priscilla Gourvil, Erwan Corre, Dominique Marie, José Luis Garrido, Francisco Rodríguez, Mary-Hélène Noël, Daniel Vaulot and Wenche Eikrem available under the CC BY 4.0 license.

1. Lopes dos Santos, Adriana; et al. (2017). "Chloropicophyceae, a new class of picophytoplanktonic prasinophytes". Sci Rep. 7 (1): 14019. Bibcode:2017NatSR...714019L. doi:10.1038/s41598-017-12412-5. PMC   5656628 . PMID   29070840.
2. Guiry, M.D.; Guiry, G.M. "Chloropicon". AlgaeBase . University of Galway.