Tessellaria volvocina (Playfair) Playfair
| Common Name | chromists | ||||
| Taxonomy by Gene Sequence | No | ||||
| Collection Site | -34.2667°N 142.2167°W Billabong, Yarra River, Melbourne, Victoria Australia | ||||
| Ocean | freshwater | ||||
| Sea | |||||
| Nearest Continent | Australia | ||||
| Collected By | Lavau,S | ||||
| Collection Date | |||||
| Isolated By | Lavau,S | ||||
| Isolated Date | |||||
| Identified By | Lavau,S | ||||
| Deposited By | Wetherbee,R | ||||
| Deposit Date | 09/25/1997 | ||||
| Strain Synonyms | |||||
| Is The Strain Currently Axenic? | No | ||||
| When Was It Last Tested? | 10/25/2006 | ||||
| Other Information | |||||
| Authentic Type/Strain | No | ||||
| Morphological Data | colonial flagellate, scales surrounding the colony | ||||
| Attributes | Algae, Freshwater | ||||
| Additional Resources | Genbank Genome Transcriptome AlgaeBase | ||||
| Genome Sequence Link | No | ||||
| Medium Used for Maintenance | DYV-m |
| Other Reported Growth Media | DY-V, DYVm |
| Maintenance Temperature (°C) | 20 °C |
| Known Temperature Range (°C) | 12 - 22 °C |
| Cell Length (Min) | 18 |
| Cell Length (Max) | 50 |
| Cell Width (Min) | 5 |
| Cell Width (Max) | 9 |
New daughter set created every four weeks
Daughter set……….…42umol quanta m-2 s-1
Mother set………….….6umol quanta m-2 s-1
Grandmother set….…..6umol quanta m-2 s-1
Documentation:
Inorganic carbon acquisition in some synurophyte algae (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18298411/)
Rediscovery of the Ochromonas type species Ochromonas triangulata (Chrysophyceae) from its type locality (Lake Veysove, Donetsk region, Ukraine) (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.2216/17-15.1)