Eutreptiaceae

Eutreptiaceae
Eutreptiella sp.
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Clade:	Discoba
Phylum:	Euglenozoa
Class:	Euglenida
Clade:	Euglenophyceae
Order:	Eutreptiales Leedale, 1967 emend. Marin & Melkonian, 2003
Family:	Eutreptiaceae Hollande, 1942
Genera [1]
Eutreptia Eutreptiella

Eutreptiaceae (ICN) or Eutreptiidae (ICZN) is a family of algae in the class Euglenophyceae. It is the only family within the monotypic order Eutreptiales (ICN) or Eutreptiida (ICZN). ^[2] It contains predominantly marine single-celled flagellates with photosynthetic chloroplasts. ^{[1] [3]}

Description

Members of the family Eutreptiaceae are unicellular flagellates, microscopic eukaryotes or protists capable of swimming by using flagella. Each individual has two or four heterodynamic flagella, of equal or unequal length, emerging from a pocket in the anterior side of the cell. The cells are usually capable of extensive flexibility or metaboly, a characteristic of all spirocute euglenids. Every species of this family is phototrophic and found primarily in marine or brackish habitats, rarely in freshwater ecosystems. ^[4]

References

1. Alexei Y. Kostygov; Anna Karnkowska; Jan Votýpka; Daria Tashyreva; Kacper Maciszewski; Vyacheslav Yurchenko; Julius Lukeš (10 March 2021). "Euglenozoa: taxonomy, diversity and ecology, symbioses and viruses". Open Biology . 11: 200407. doi:10.1098/RSOB.200407. ISSN   2046-2441. PMC   8061765 . PMID   33715388. Wikidata   Q125548575.
2. Thomas Cavalier-Smith (15 September 2016). "Higher classification and phylogeny of Euglenozoa". European Journal of Protistology . 56: 250–276. doi:10.1016/J.EJOP.2016.09.003. ISSN   0932-4739. PMID   27889663. Wikidata   Q39151632.
3. Sina M. Adl; David Bass; Christopher E. Lane; et al. (1 January 2019). "Revisions to the Classification, Nomenclature, and Diversity of Eukaryotes". Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology . 66 (1): 4–119. doi:10.1111/JEU.12691. ISSN   1066-5234. PMC   6492006 . PMID   30257078. Wikidata   Q57086550.
4. Birger Marin; Anne Palm; Max Klingberg; Michael Melkonian (1 April 2003). "Phylogeny and taxonomic revision of plastid-containing euglenophytes based on SSU rDNA sequence comparisons and synapomorphic signatures in the SSU rRNA secondary structure". Protist . 154 (1): 99–145. doi:10.1078/143446103764928521. ISSN   1434-4610. PMID   12812373. Wikidata   Q34206703.