Mallomonas pleuriforamen
Mallomonas pleuriforamen is an extinct species of heterokont algae. It was first found in Middle Eocene lacustrine deposits from northwestern Canada. It was a tiny free-living cell, about the width of a human hair. It had ornate scales and bristles, as well as long spines. It was a relatively common part of lake or pond plankton. It differs from its cogenerates by the number, distribution, and size of its base plate pores, the secondary structures on the scale surfaces, together with characteristics of its bristles.[1][2]
| Mallomonas pleuriforamen | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Clade: | SAR |
| Phylum: | Ochrophyta |
| Class: | Synurophyceae |
| Order: | Synurales |
| Family: | Mallomonadaceae |
| Genus: | Mallomonas |
| Species: | M. pleuriforamen |
| Binomial name | |
| Mallomonas pleuriforamen Jo et al., 2013 | |
References
- Peter Siver (6 December 2012). The Biology of Mallomonas: Morphology, Taxonomy and Ecology. Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 17–. ISBN 978-94-011-3376-0.
- Jo, Bok Yeon; Shin, Woongghi; Kim, Han Soon; Siver, Peter A.; Andersen, Robert A. (2013). "Phylogeny of the genusMallomonas(Synurophyceae) and descriptions of five new species on the basis of morphological evidence". Phycologia. 52 (3): 266–278. doi:10.2216/12-107.1. ISSN 0031-8884.
Further reading
- Siver, Peter A., et al. "Assessing the evolutionary history of the class Synurophyceae (Heterokonta) using molecular, morphometric, and paleobiological approaches." American Journal of Botany 102.6 (2015): 921-941.
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