Chrysochromulina chiton Parke & Manton

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Chromista
Phylum Haptophyta
Class Coccolithophyceae
Subclass Prymnesiophycidae
Order Prymnesiales
Family Chrysochromulinaceae
Genus Chrysochromulina

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Publication details
Chrysochromulina chiton Parke & Manton in Parke, Manton & Clarke 1958: 225, figs 1-37

Original publication: Parke, M., Manton, I. & Clarke, B. (1958). Studies on marine flagellates. IV. Morphology and microanatomy of a new species of Chrysochromulina. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 37: 209-228.

Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Chrysochromulina is Chrysochromulina parva Lackey.

Status of name
This name is currently regarded as a taxonomic synonym of Prymnesium chiton (Parke & Manton) Edvardsen, Eikrem & Probert

Synonym(s)
No synonyms are currently included in AlgaeBase.

General environment
This is a marine species.

Type information
Type locality: sea at N 47.36, W 04.18 (Silva 1996-to date). Notes: 'Type culture' PCC 146 (Edvardsen et al. 2011).

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Chrysochromulina chiton Parke & Manton)
England: England (Edvardsen et al. 2011).

Europe: Britain (Parke & Dixon 1976).

Australia and New Zealand: New Zealand (Rhodes et al. 2012), Tasmania (LeRoi & Hallegraeff 2004).

Antarctic and the subantarctic islands: Antarctica/Subantarctic Islands (Marchant, Scott & Davidson 2005).

Source of synonymy
Edvardsen, B., Eikrem, W., Throndsen, J., Sáez, A.G., Probert, I. & Medlin, L.K. (2011). Ribosomal DNA phylogenies and a morphological revision provide the basis for a revised taxonomy of the Prymnesiales (Haptophyta). European Journal of Phycology 46(3): 202-228.

Key references
Jordan, R.W., Cros, L. & Young, J.R. (2005). A revised classification scheme for living haptophytes. Micropaleontology 50(Suppl. 1): 55-79.

LeRoi, J.-M. & Hallegraeff, G.M. (2004). Scale-bearing nanoflagellates from southern Tasmanian coastal waters, Australia. I. Species of the genus Chrysochromulina (Haptophyta). Botanica Marina 47: 73-102.

Marchant, H.J., Scott, F.J. & Davidson, A.T. (2005). Haptophytes: Order Prymnesiales. In: Antarctic marine protists. (Scott, F.J. & Marchant, H.J. Eds), pp. 255-275. Canberra & Hobart: Australian Biological Resources Study; Australian Antarctic Division.

UTEX Cultures
UTEX Culture LB 982 Chrysochromulina chiton
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SAG Cultures
SAG Cultures may be viewed at http://sagdb.uni-goettingen.de/showstrains.php?genus=Chrysochromulina&species=chiton

SCCAP Cultures
Cultures from the Scandinavian Culture Collection of Algae at the University of Copenhagen (SCCAP) and Protozoa may be viewed at http://www.sccap.dk/search/algaebase.asp?Genus=Chrysochromulina&Species=chiton

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 02 May 2002 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 26 October 2011 by Wendy Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 357 times since it was created.

References
(Please note: only references with the binomials in the title are included. The information is from the Literature database.)

Barker, D.A.N., Leadbeater, B.S.C. & Green, J.C. (1991). New light on an old problem: an immunological investigation of the scale case of Chrysochromulina chiton. British Phycological Journal 26: 82.
Green, J.C. & Jennings, D.H. (1967). A physical and chemical investigation of the scales produced by the golgi apparatus within and found on the surface of the cells of Chrysochromulina chiton Parke et Manton. J. Exp. Bot. 18: 359-370.
Green, J.C., Hori, T. & Course, P.A. (1989). An ultrastructural study of mitosis in Chrysochromulina chiton (Prymnesiophyceae). Phycologia 28: 318-330.

Linking to this page: http://www.algaebase.org/search/species/detail/?species_id=51574

Citing AlgaeBase
Cite this record as:
Wendy Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2013. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org; searched on 19 June 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:47541