Prasinophyceae

Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Divisio: Chlorophyta
Classis: Prasinophyceae
Ordo: Chlorodendrales - Dunalliellales - Halosphaerales - Mamiellales

Name

Prasinophyceae T.Christensen, 1962 ex P.C.Silva, 1980

Synonyms

• Prasinates Chadefaud, 1941
• Prasinophycées Chadefaud, 1947
• Prasinophycinées Chadefaud, 1960
• Prasinophytina Round, 1963; Silva in Mitsui & Black, 1982; Cavalier-Smith in Brodie & Lewis, 2007
• Prasinophyta Round, 1971
• Prasinomonadida Levine et al., 1980 [?]
• Micromonadophyceae Mattox & Stewart, 1984
• Prasinophytae Cavalier-Smith, 1998

Classifications

Chadefaud & Emberger (1960)

Chadefaud, M. & Emberger, L. (éds.). Traité de botanique systématique. Masson et Cie., Paris.

• Tome I. Les végétaux non vasculaires (Cryptogamie), par M. Chadefaud, 1960, 1 vol. de 1016 pages, [1]
• Tome II. Les végétaux vasculaires, par L. Emberger, 1960, deux fascicules, 1540 pages, [2], [3]

Monde vivant

• Eucaryotes
  • Algues Eucaryotes (= Phycophytes)
    • Chlorophycophytes (= Algues vertes, stricto sensu)
      • Euchlorophycées (= Chlorophycées typiques) [p. 331, 336]
        • Prasinophycinées
          • Prasinococcales (Halosphaera viridis)
          • Prasinovolvocales

Christensen (1962)

• Christensen, T. 1962. Alger. In: Böcher, T.W., Lange, M. & Sørensen, T. (eds.) Botanik. Bind II. Systematisk botanik. Nr. 2. pp. [1]–178. København: I kommission hos Munksgaard. Reference page. 

"Alger"

• Eukaryota
  • Contophora
    • Chlorophyta
      • Euglenophyceae
      • Loxophyceae
      • Prasinophyceae
      • Chlorophyceae

Round (1963)

Round, F.E. (1963). The taxonomy of the Chlorophyta. British Phycological Bulletin, 2 (4): 224-235. [4].

Eucaryota

• Contophora
  • Chlorophyta
    • Euglenophytina
    • Prasinophytina
    • Charophytina
    • Chlorophytina

Round (1971)

Round, F.E. (1971). The taxonomy of the Chlorophyta, 2. Brit. phycol. J. 6 (2): 235–264, [5].

• "green algae"
  • Euglenophyta
  • Prasinophyta
  • Charophyta
  • Chlorophyta

Levine et al. (1980)

From N. D. Levine; J. O. Corliss; F. E. G. Cox; G. Deroux; J. Grain; B. M. Honigberg; G. F. Leedale; A. R. Loeblich, III; J. Lom; D. Lynn; E. G. Merinfeld; F. C. Page; G. Poljansky; V. Sprague; J. Vavra; and F. G. Wallace (1980). A newly revised classification of the Protozoa. J. Protozool., 27:37–58, [6].

Subkingdom Protozoa

• Phylum Sarcomastigophora
  • Subphylum Mastigophora
    • Class Phytomastigophorea
      • Order 9. Prasinomonadida

Silva (1980)

• Silva, P.C. 1980. Names of classes and families of living algae: with special reference to their use in the Index Nominum Genericorum (Plantarum). Regnum Vegetabile 103. 156 pp. ISBN 90-313-0410-7. Reference page. 

"Algae"

• Class Prasinophyceae

Ettl (1983)

Ettl, Hanus, 1983. Chlorophyta I: Phytomonadina. In: Ettl, H., Gerloff, J., Heynig, H. & Mollenhauer, D. (eds.), Süßwasserflora von Mitteleuropa. Band 9. Stuttgart: Gustav Fischer Verlag. 807 p., [7], [8].

[See Algae]

• Chlorophyta
  • "Phytomonadina"
    • Prasinophyceae
      • Ordnung Polyblepharidales
      • Ordnung Halosphaerales
      • Ordnung Tetraselmidales

John O. Corliss (1984)

From The kingdom Protista and its 45 phyla

In Kingdom Protista, Assemblage "Chlorobionts"
Phylum Prasinophyta Christensen, 1962

• Class Prasinophyceae T. Christensen, 1962 ex Moestrup & Throndsen, 1988

Mattox & Stewart (1984)

Mattox, K. R. & Stewart, K. D. 1984. Classification of the green algae: a concept based on comparative cytology. Pp. 29‐72, In Irvine, D. E. G. & John, D. M. (eds.), The systematics of Green Algae. The Systematics Association, Special Vol. 27, Academic Press, London.

• Chlorophyta
  • Micromonadophyceae Mattox & Stewart [similar to Prasinophyceae; Tetraselmidiales transferred to Pleurastrophyceae]
  • Charophyceae Rabenhorst
  • Ulvophyceae Mattox & Stewart
  • Pleurastrophyceae Mattox & Stewart
  • Chlorophyceae Wille in Warming

Melkonian in Margulis et al. (1990)

Melkonian, M., 1990. 32a. Phylum Chlorophyta, Class Prasinophyceae. In: Margulis, L., J.O. Corliss, M. Melkonian, D.J. Chapman (ed.). Handbook of Protoctista. Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Boston, p. 600-607. See Brands, S.J. (1989-2015), [9].

Kingdom Protoctista

• Section IV: Phyla with flagellated stages and complex sexual cycles
  • Phylum 32. Chlorophyta
    • Class Prasinophyceae

van den Hoek, Mann and Jahns (1995)

van den Hoek, C., Mann, D. G., & Jahns, H. M. (1995): Algae. An Introduction to Phycology. 1st ed. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, [10].

"Algae"

• Division Chlorophyta
  • Class Prasinophyceae (orders Mamiellales, Pseudocourfeldiales, Pyramimonadales, Chlorodendrales)

Cavalier-Smith (1998)

From A revised six-kingdom system of life, [11].

Empire or Superkingdom Eukaryota

• Kingdom Plantae Haeckel 1866 em. Cavalier-Smith 1981
  • Subkingdom 2. Viridaeplantae Cavalier-Smith 1981
    • Infrakingdom 1. Chlorophyta Cavalier-Smith 1993
      • Phylum Chlorophyta auct.
        • Infraphylum 1. Prasinophytae infraphyl. nov

Moestrup in Lee et al. (2000)

Moestrup, Ø., 2000. Class Prasinophyceae T. Christensen ex P.C. Silva, 1980. In: Lee, J.J., Leedale, G.F. & Bradbury, P. An Illustrated Guide to the Protozoa. Society of Protozoologists/Allen Press: Lawrence, Kansas, U.S.A, 2nd ed., vol. 2, p. 1253-1268, [12]. See Brands, S.J. (1989-2015), [13].

In “protozoa”, “flagellated protists”

• Class Prasinophyceae T. Christensen ex P.C. Silva, 1980 (= Micromonadophyceae; = Prasinomonadida)
  • Genus †Tasmanites Newton, 1875 [see other 60 genera in Tappan (1980)]
  • Order Pyramimonadales Chadefaud, 1950
    • Family Halosphaeraceae Haeckel, 1894
      • Genus Cymbomonas Schiller, 1913
      • Genus Halosphaera Schmitz, 1879
      • Genus Pachysphaera Ostenfeld, in Knudsen & Ostenfeld, 1899
      • Genus Pterosperma Pouchet, 1893
      • Genus Pyramimonas Schmarda, 1850
      • ?Genus Prasinochloris Belcher, 1966
    • Family Mesostigmataceae Fott ex Moestrup & Throndsen
      • Genus Mesostigma Lauterborn, 1894
  • Order Mamiellales Moestrup, 1984
    • Family Mamiellaceae Moestrup, 1984
      • Genus Bathycoccus Eikrem & Throndsen, 1990
      • Genus Mamiella Moestrup, 1984
      • Genus Dolichomastix Manton, 1977
      • Genus Mantoniella Desikachary, 1972
    • Family Micromonadaceae
      • Genus Micromonas Manton & Parke, 1960
  • Order Chlorodendrales Fritsch, 1917
    • Family Chlorodendraceae Oltmanns, 1904
      • Genus Scherffelia Pascher, 1911
      • Genus Tetraselmis Stein, 1878
    • Family Nephroselmidaceae Skuja, 1948 ex Silva, 1980
      • Genus Nephroselmis Stein, 1878
      • Genus Pseudoscourfieldia Manton, 1975
    • Family Pycnococcaceae Guillard, 1991
      • Genus Prasinoderma Hasegawa & Chihara
      • ?Genus Ostreococcus Courties & Chrétiennot-Dinet, 1995
      • Genus Pycnococcus Guillard, 1991
      • Genus Prasinococcus Miyashita & Chihara, 1993

Lewis & McCourt (2004)

• Lewis, L.A. & McCourt, R.M. 2004. Green algae and the origin of land plants. American Journal of Botany 91(10): 1535–1556. DOI: 10.3732/ajb.91.10.1535 Reference page. 

• Division Chlorophyta (green algae sensu stricto)
  • Subdivision Chlorophytina
    • Class Prasinophyceae (prasinophytes)
      • Order Pyramimonadales
      • Order Mamiellales
      • Order Pseudoscourfieldiales
      • Order Chlorodendrales
      • Incertae sedis (Unnamed clade of coccoid taxa)

Leliaert et al. (2012)

• Leliaert, F., Smith, D.R., Moreau, H., Herron, M.D., Verbruggen, H., Delwiche, C.F. & De Clerck, O. 2012. Phylogeny and molecular evolution of the green algae. Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences 31(1): 1–46. DOI: 10.1080/07352689.2011.615705 PDF Reference page. 

• Viridiplantae
  • Chlorophyta
    • prasinophytes (paraphyletic)
      • Pyramimonadales
      • Mamiellophyceae
      • Pycnococcaceae
      • Nephroselmidophyceae
      • Prasinococcales
      • Palmophyllales

Ruggiero et al. (2015)

• Ruggiero, M.A., Gordon, D.P., Orrell, T.M., Bailly, N., Bourgoin, T., Brusca, R.C., Cavalier-Smith, T., Guiry, M.D. & Kirk, P.M. 2015. A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248 . [Correction in 10(6): e0130114 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0130114 .] Reference page. 

Ruggiero, M.A., Gordon, D.P., Orrell, T.M., Bailly, N., Bourgoin, T., Brusca, R.C., Cavalier-Smith, T., Guiry, M. D. & Kirk, P. M. (2015). A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248, [14].

• Superkingdom Eukaryota
  • Kingdom Plantae [= Archaeplastida]
    • Subkingdom Viridiplantae
      • Infrakingdom Chlorophyta
        • Phylum Chlorophyta
          • Subphylum Prasinophytina
            • Class Mamiellophyceae
              • Order Dolichomastigales
              • Order Mamiellales
              • Order Monomastigales
            • Class Nephrophyceae [= Nephroselmidophyceae]
              • Order Nephroselmidales
            • Class Pyramimonadophyceae
              • Order Palmophyllales
              • Order Prasinococcales
              • Order Pseudoscourfieldiales
              • Order Pyramimonadales

References

• Chadefaud, M. (1941). Sur l'organisation et la position systématique des flagellés du genre Pyramidomonas. Revue scientifique 79: 113-114.
• Chadefaud, M. (1947). Études sur l'organisation de deux Volvocales sédentaires marines: Prasinocladus lubricus et Chlorodendron subsalsum. Revue scientifique 85: 862-865, [15].
• Chadefaud, M. (1960). Les végétaux non vasculaires (Cryptogamie). In Chadefaud, M. & Emberger, L. Traité de botanique systématique. Tome I. Masson, Paris.
• Christensen, T. 1962. Alger. In: Böcher, T.W., Lange, M. & Sørensen, T. (eds.) Botanik. Bind II. Systematisk botanik. Nr. 2. pp. [1]–178. København: I kommission hos Munksgaard. Reference page. 
• Moestrup, Ø., Throndsen, J. (1988). Light and electron microscopical studies on Pseudoscourfieldia marina, a primitive scaly green flagellate (Prasinophyceae) with posterior flagella. Canadian Journal of Botany 66: 1415-1434.
• Norris, R.E. (1980). Prasinophytes. In: Cox E.R. (ed.), Phytoflagellates, pp. 85-146. Elsevier/North-Holland, New York.
• Silva, P.C. 1980. Names of classes and families of living algae: with special reference to their use in the Index Nominum Genericorum (Plantarum). Regnum Vegetabile 103. 156 pp. ISBN 90-313-0410-7. Reference page. 
• Sym S.D., Pienaar R.N. (1993). The class Prasinophyceae. In: F.E. Round and D.J. Chapman (eds.), Progress in phycological research, 9: 281–376. BioPress Ltd., London, UK.

Vernacular names

eesti: Prasinofüüdid
日本語: プラシノ藻綱
polski: Prazynofity

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