Description and characterization of the algal species Aureoumbra lagunensis gen. et sp. nov. and referral of Aureoumbra and Aureococcus to the Pelagophyceae

Authors

Hudson R. DeYoe, University of Texas at Austin
Dean A. Stockwell, University of Texas at Austin
Robert R. Bidigare, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Mikel Latasa, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Paul W. Johnson, University of Rhode Island
Paul E. Hargraves, University of Rhode Island
Curtis A. Suttle, University of British Columbia

Document Type

Article

Date of Original Version

1-1-1997

Abstract

The Texas brown tide alga (strain TBA-2) is described as Aureoumbra lagunensis Stockwell, DeYoe, Hargraves, et Johnson, gen. et sp. nov. Pigment composition, chloroplast structure, and 18S ribosomal RNA gene sequence data indicate that A. lagunensis and the east coast brown tide alga Aureococcus anophagefferens (originally placed in the Chrysophyceae) belong in the class Pelagophyceae. The new genus Aureoumbra with A. lagunensis as the type species differs from Aureococcus in 18S ribosomal RNA gene sequence, pyrenoid form, nitrogen physiology, and possession of basal bodies. The genus Aureococcus is placed in the order Pelagomonadales and family Pelagomonadaceae while ordinal placement of Aureoumbra is deferred.

Publication Title, e.g., Journal

Journal of Phycology

Volume

33

Issue

6

Citation/Publisher Attribution

DeYoe, Hudson R., Dean A. Stockwell, Robert R. Bidigare, Mikel Latasa, Paul W. Johnson, Paul E. Hargraves, and Curtis A. Suttle. "Description and characterization of the algal species Aureoumbra lagunensis gen. et sp. nov. and referral of Aureoumbra and Aureococcus to the Pelagophyceae." Journal of Phycology 33, 6 (1997). doi: 10.1111/j.0022-3646.1997.01042.x.