Mallomonas lacuna is a species of heterokont algae. It is a tiny free-living cell, about the width of a human hair. It has ornate scales and bristles, as well as long spines. It is 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 lacuna | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Clade: | Diaphoretickes |
| Clade: | SAR |
| Clade: | Stramenopiles |
| Phylum: | Gyrista |
| Subphylum: | Ochrophytina |
| Class: | Chrysophyceae |
| Order: | Synurales |
| Family: | Mallomonadaceae |
| Genus: | Mallomonas |
| Species: | M. lacuna
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| Binomial name | |
| Mallomonas lacuna Jo et al., 2013
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References edit
- ^ 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. Bibcode:2013Phyco..52..266J. doi:10.2216/12-107.1. ISSN 0031-8884. S2CID 37080213.
Further reading edit
- Kim, Han Soon, et al. "Mallomonas elevata sp. nov.(Synurophyceae), a new scaled Chrysophyte from Jeju Island, South Korea." Nova Hedwigia 98.1-2 (2014): 89-102.
External links edit
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