Fibrocapsa
| Fibrocapsa | |
|---|---|
| Light microscopy images of F. japonica showing flagella (white arrows), nucleus (n), mucocysts (m), and discharged mucocysts (black arrows). Scale bars: 10 µm (A-E), 50 µm (F). | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Clade: | Sar |
| Clade: | Stramenopiles |
| Division: | Ochrophyta |
| Class: | Raphidophyceae |
| Order: | Chattonellales |
| Family: | Fibrocapsaceae Cavalier-Smith in Cavalier-Smith & Chao, 2013[2] |
| Genus: | Fibrocapsa S.Toriumi & H.Takano, 1973[1] |
| Species: | F. japonica
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| Binomial name | |
| Fibrocapsa japonica S.Toriumi & H.Takano, 1973
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Fibrocapsa is a genus of algae belonging to the family Fibrocapsaceae. It is monotypic, containing only the species Fibrocapsa japonica.[3] It belongs to the monotypic family Fibrocapsaceae.[2]
References
- ^ Toriumi, S.; Takano, H. (1973). "Fibrocapsa, a new genus in Chloromonadophyceae from Atsumi Bay, Japan". Bulletin of the Tokai Regional Fisheries Research Laboratory. 76: 25–35.
- ^ a b Cavalier-Smith, Thomas; Scoble, Josephine Margaret (2012). "Phylogeny of Heterokonta: Incisomonas marina, a uniciliate gliding opalozoan related to Solenicola (Nanomonadea), and evidence that Actinophryida evolved from raphidophytes". European Journal of Protistology. 49 (3): 328–353. doi:10.1016/j.ejop.2012.09.002. PMID 23219323.
- ^ Throndsen, Jahn (1993). "The Planktonic Marine Flagellates". In Tomas, Carmelo R. (ed.). Marine Phytoplankton: A Guide to Naked Flagellates and Coccolithophorids. San Diego: Academic Press. pp. 7–145. ISBN 0-12-693010-4.