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Description of Chrysophyceae

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The chrysomonads include mainly single-celled and colonial flagellates, but amoeboid (rhizopodial), plasmodial, palmelloid (capsoid), coccoid, filamentous and parenchymatous forms also occur. Chrysomonads are mainly freshwater organisms, with only a few species reported from marine environments and a few from soil and snow habitats. They live in a wide range of freshwater environments from polar regions to the tropics, but most commonly occur in cold temperate lakes, ponds and bogs.
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Description of Synurophyceae

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Synurophytes have bilaterally symmetrical silica scales; chlorophyll c1 only - rather than chlorophylls c1 and c2 combined, chloroplasts which usually lack membrane connections to the nucleus, as well as the production of bilaterally symmetrical scales; predominantly freshwater rarely marine, most commonly encountered in acidic or circumneutral waters in cold temperate bogs, ponds, and lakes.
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Chrysophyta

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Chrysophyta or golden algae is a term used to refer to certain heterokonts.

Dinobryon sp. from Shishitsuka Pond, Tsuchiura, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan

It can be used to refer to:

Chrysophyta has some characteristics which includes their possession of the photosynthetic pigments which are chlorophylls a and c, they also possess a yellow carotenoid called fucoxanthin, this is responsible for their unique and characteristic color. They also store food as oil and not starch, their cells contain no cellulose and are often impregnated with silicon compounds. Each species has its own special markings.

References

  1. ^ "Chrysophyta". Archived from the original on September 22, 2008. Retrieved 2009-06-13.
  2. ^ Pascher A (1914). "Über Flagellaten und Algen". Berichte der Deutschen Botanischen Gesellschaft 32: 136–160.
  3. ^ "Introduction to the Chrysophyta". Retrieved 2009-06-13.
  4. ^ Margulis, L., J.O. Corliss, M. Melkonian, D.J. Chapman. Handbook of Protoctista. Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Boston, 1990.
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Chrysophyta: Brief Summary

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Chrysophyta or golden algae is a term used to refer to certain heterokonts.

Dinobryon sp. from Shishitsuka Pond, Tsuchiura, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan

It can be used to refer to:

Chrysophyceae (golden algae), Bacillariophyceae (diatoms), and Xanthophyceae (yellow-green algae) together. E.g., Pascher (1914). Chrysophyceae (golden algae) E.g., Margulis et al. (1990).

Chrysophyta has some characteristics which includes their possession of the photosynthetic pigments which are chlorophylls a and c, they also possess a yellow carotenoid called fucoxanthin, this is responsible for their unique and characteristic color. They also store food as oil and not starch, their cells contain no cellulose and are often impregnated with silicon compounds. Each species has its own special markings.

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