TAXONOMIC STATUS OF THE SPECIES OF THE GREEN ALGAL GENUS NEOCHLORIS

KOMAREK has recently reviewed the various species assigned to the green algal genus Neochloris STARR (Chlorococcales, Chlorococcaceae) and removed those with uninucleate vegetative cells to a new genus, Ettlia. WATANABE & FLOYD, unaware of KOMAREK'S work, also reviewed the species of Neochloris and distributed them among three genera - Neochloris, Chlorococcopsis gen. nov., and Parietochloris gen. nov. - on the basis of details of the covering of the zoospore and the arrangement of the basal bodies of the flagellar apparatus. This paper reconciles these two treatments and makes additional recommendations at the ranks of genus, family, order, and class.