Oltmannsiellopsis

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Oltmannsiellopsis
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Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Chlorophyta
Class: Ulvophyceae
Order: Oltmannsiellopsidales
Family: Oltmannsiellopsidaceae
Genus: Oltmannsiellopsis
M.Chihara & I.Inouye, 1986 [1] [2]
Type species
Oltmannsiellopsis viridis
Species

Oltmannsiellopsis is a genus of marine colonial flagellate green algae [1] in the Oltmannsiellopsidaceae family of Chlorophyta. [3] It was named in reference to the similar genus Oltmannsiella . [1] It has three species, O. viridis , which forms four-celled colonies, O. unicellularis , which is single celled, and O. geminata , which forms two-celled colonies. [1] In Japanese it is called ウミイカダモ (umiikadamo). [4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Chihara, Mitsuo; Inouye, Isao; Takahata, Naohiro (1986). "Oltmannsiellopsis, a new Genus of Marine Flagellate (Dunaliellaceae, Chlorophyceae)". Archiv für Protistenkunde. 132 (4): 314–324. doi:10.1016/S0003-9365(86)80026-4. ISSN   0003-9365.
  2. 1 2 Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2017. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org/search/genus/detail/?genus_id=Ye21b409fb53b3ea8  ; searched on 16 October 2017.
  3. ↑ NCBI webpage on Oltmannsiellopsis. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information . Retrieved 2007-03-19.
  4. ↑ Japan Oceanographic Data Center (2002) JODC taxonomic code of marine organisms (plankton). 2001 edition. In: Marine Organisms Data, accessed through http://www.godac.jamstec.go.jp/bismal/j/JODC_J-DOSS/view/9025306 .


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