Great Lakes Xanthophyte Species List

Class Xanthophyceae

• Order Heterocapsales
• Family Mischococcaceae
• Genus Mischococcus
• Mischococcus confervicola
• Order Heterochloridales
• Family Chloromoebaceae
• Genus Chloromonas
• Chloromonas minuta
• Order Heterococcales
• Family Botryochloridaceae
• Genus Chloroellidiopsis
• Chloroellidiopsis separabilis
• Family Centritractaceae
• Genus Bumilleriopsis
• Bumilleriopsis brevis
• Genus Centritractus
• Centritractus belanophorus
• Centritractus dubius
• Family Characiopsidaceae
• Genus Characiopsis
• Characiopsis acuta
• Characiopsis cylindrica
• Characiopsis lageniformis
• Characiopsis longipes
• Characiopsis pyriformis
• Characiopsis spinifer
• Genus Peroniella
• Peroniella hyalothecae
• Peroniella planctonica
• Family Chlorotheciaceae
• Genus Chlorothecium
• Chlorothecium pirottae
• Genus Isthmochloron?
  • Isthmochloron trispinatum#
• Genus Ophiocytium
• Ophiocytium arbuscula
• Ophiocytium bicuspidatum
• Ophiocytium capitatum
• Ophiocytium cochleare
• Ophiocytium desertum
• Ophiocytium elongatum
• Ophiocytium gracilipes
• Ophiocytium majus
• Ophiocytium mucronatum
• Ophiocytium parvulum
• Family Gloeobotrydaceae
• Genus Chlorobotrys
• Chlorobotrys regularis
• Genus Gloeobotrys
• Gloeobotrys limneticus
• Family Pleurochloridaceae
• Genus Arachnochloris
• Arachnochloris minor
• Genus Botrydiopsis
• Botrydiopsis arhiza
• Genus Chlorallanthus
• Chlorallanthus oblongus
• Genus Chlorocloster
• Chlorocloster pyreniger
• Genus Diachros
• Diachros simplex
• Genus Goniochloris
• Goniochloris sculpta
• Genus Meringosphaera
• Meringosphaera spinosa
• Genus Monallantus
• Monallantus brevicylindrus
• Genus Perone
• Perone dimorpha
• Genus Pleurogaster
• Pleurogaster lunaris
• Pleurogaster oocystoides
• Genus Tetragoniella
• Tetragoniella gigas
• Genus Trachychloron
• Trachychloron biconnicum
• Trachychloron depauperatum
• Order Heterosiphonales
• Family Botrydiaceae
• Genus Botrydium
• Botrydium granulatum
• Order Heterotrichales
• Family Tribonemataceae
• Genus Bumilleria
• Bumilleria sicula
• Genus Tribonema
• Tribonema affine
• Tribonema bombycinum
• Tribonema minus
• Tribonema utriculosum
• Order Rhizochloridales
• Family Stipitococcaceae
• Genus Stipitococcus
• Stipitococcus capense
• Stipitococcus crassistipatus
• Stipitococcus apiculatus
• Stipitococcus urceolatus
• Stipitococcus vasiformis

Based on: G.W. Prescott. 1962. Algae of the Western Great Lakes Area. Wm. C. Brown Co., Inc.

*Plankton in Lake Michigan 1983 - 1992 . EPA/GLNPO. Epilimnetic Phytoplankton and Zooplankton Biomass and Species Composition in Lake Michigan, 1983 to 1992. Joseph C. Makarewicz, Theodore Lewis and Paul Bertram. October 1994. [Reports Stylotheca aurea - Other references to this species of Chrysophyte cannot be found so this species is not included in the above list]

#Plankton in Lake Ontario 1986 - 1992. EPA/GLNPO. Epilimnetic Phytoplankton and Zooplankton Biomass and Species Composition in Lake Ontario, 1986 to 1992. Joseph C. Makarewicz, Theodore Lewis1 and Paul Bertram. July 1995.

E Great Lakes Aquatic Nonindigenous Species List.

Ds Dm Dh De Do - Dominant algae species of each Lake - Per Results From The Great Lakes National Program Office’s Biological Open Water Surveillance Program Of The Laurentian Great Lakes for 1998. EPA.

H Brown and Manny. 1983. Nearshore Plankton of Hammond Bay, Lake Huron. JGLR 9(4)523-529.

Additional taxonomic placements based on: Prescott. 1970. how to know the Freshwater Algae. Wm. C. Brown Co. [Ankyra, Chlorogonium, Lobomonas, Phacotus, Pyramidomonas, Sphaerellocystis, Bitrichia, Chromulina, Chrysarachnion, Chrysochromulina, Chrysococcus, Epipyxis, Kephyrion, Monosiga, Ochromonas, Pseudokephyrion, Salpingoeca, Stichogloea, Uroglena, Chilomonas, Rhodomonas, Amphidinium, Enteromorpha, Nitellopsis]

Additional taxonomic placements based on: Protist Information Server. [Chlamydocapsa, Monoraphidium, Planktonema, Selenastrum, Sphaerellopsis]

Additional taxonomic placements based on: European Register of Marine Species [Hymenomonas]

Additional taxonomic placements based on: Systema Naturae 2000 [Paraphysomonas, Spiniferomonas]

Additional taxonomic placements based on: VCR LTER Biodiversity Database [Coccochloris]

?Additional Taxonomy, uncertain.[Chodatellopsis, Diplochloris, Echinocoleum, Gloedactinium, Chrysolykos, Isthmochloron, Sphacelariales]

Great Lakes Xanthophyte Genera

Planktonic Unicells

Botrydium

Botrydiopsis

Goniochloris

Chloromonas

Centritractus

Meringosphaera

NA
Arachnochloris

NA
Chlorallanthus

NA
Chlorocloster

NA
Diachros

NA
Monallantus

NA
Perone

NA
Pleurogaster

NA
Tetragoniella

NA
Trachychloron

Characiopsis

Stipitococcus

Peroniella

Chlorothecium

Bumilleriopsis

Ophiocytium

NA

Isthmochloron

NA

Chloroellidiopsis

Filaments

Chlorobotrys

Gloeobotrys

Mischococcus

Xanthophyta Links

Introduction to the Chrysophyta (Golden Algae)
Introduction to the Xanthophyta