Basichlamys
| Basichlamys | |
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| File:Basichlamys sacculifera as Gonium sacculiferum.jpg | |
| Basichlamys sacculifera | |
| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Division: | Chlorophyta |
| Class: | Chlorophyceae |
| Order: | Chlamydomonadales |
| Family: | Tetrabaenaceae |
| Genus: | Basichlamys Skuja, 1956 |
| Species: | B. sacculifera
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| Binomial name | |
| Basichlamys sacculifera (Scherffel) Skuja
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Basichlamys is a monotypic genus of colonial green algae in the family Tetrabaenaceae.[1] The sole species is Basichlamys sacculifera. It is rare, but cosmopolitan in freshwaters.[2]
Basichlamys sacculifera consists of four-celled colonies of cells in a square, which are attached by their bases to a parental cellular sheath or sac. The cells are ovoid and asymmetrical, and each have two flagella, two contractile vacuoles, and a cup-shaped chloroplast containing a pyrenoid and a stigma.[3] The ultrastructure of the cell wall is similar to those of Tetrabaena and Gonium.[4] Its overall morphology is most similar to Tetrabaena, but the cells are not connected to each other directly but are instead connected by a common cellular sheath.[3]
Asexual reproduction occurs by autocolony formation,[2] or occasionally akinetes or hypnospores (dormant cells).[3] Sexual reproduction is isogamous and results in walled aplanozygotes.[2] The zygote walls are reticulate, a feature that it shares with Tetrabaena.[4]
References
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Basichlamys - Description with pictures
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