- Source: Chloroparvula
Chloroparvula is a genus of green algae in the class Chloropicophyceae.
Description
Members of this genus are distinguished from other species of Chloropicophyceae by having a thick and smooth wall, sometimes with fibrils, and a string-like ornamentation.
Taxonomy
The name Chloroparvula references both its green color (chloro-) and its small size (-parvula).
There are two species in the genus:
Chloroparvula pacifica Lopes dos Santos & Eikrem 2017 (type species)
Chloroparvula japonica Lopes dos Santos & Eikrem 2017
References
This article incorporates "Chloropicophyceae, a new class of picophytoplanktonic prasinophytes" text from this source, which is by Adriana Lopes dos Santos, Thibaut Pollina, Priscilla Gourvil, Erwan Corre, Dominique Marie, José Luis Garrido, Francisco Rodríguez, Mary-Hélène Noël, Daniel Vaulot and Wenche Eikrem available under the CC BY 4.0 license.