Lepidochromonas

Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Diaphoretickes
Cladus: Tsar
Cladus: Sar
Infraregnum: Heterokonta
Phylum: Ochrophyta
Subphylum: Phaeista
Infraphylum: Limnista
Classis: Chrysophyceae
Ordo: Paraphysomonadales
Familia: Lepidochromonadaceae
Genus: Lepidochromonas

Name

Lepidochromonas Kristiansen, Nova Hedwigia 33: 171 (1980)

• Type species: Lepidochromonas diademifera (E. Takahashi) Kristiansen, 1980

Synonyms

• Clathromonas Scoble & Caval.-Sm., Eur. J. Protistol. 50: 559 (2014), nom. illeg.
  • Type species: Clathromonas butcheri (Pennick and K.J.Clarke) Scoble & Caval.-Sm., 2014

Notice: Clathromonas Scoble & Caval.-Sm., nom. illeg. included the type of previously validly published genus Lepidochromonas Kristiansen (as Clathromonas diademifera (E. Takahashi) Scoble & Caval.-Sm., 2014)

References

• Kapustin, D.A. & Guiry, M.D. 2019. Reinstatement of Lepidochromonas Kristiansen (Lepidochromonadaceae fam. nov., Chrysophyceae). Phytotaxa 413(1): 49–53. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.413.1.5 Reference page. 
• Scoble, J.M. & Cavalier-Smith, T. 2014. Scale evolution in Paraphysomonadida (Chrysophyceae): sequence phylogeny and revised taxonomy of Paraphysomonas, new genus Clathromonas, and 25 new species. European Journal of Protistology 50(5): 551–592. DOI: 10.1016/j.ejop.2014.08.001 Reference page.