Phaeocystis pouchetii (Hariot) Lagerheim

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Chromista
Phylum Haptophyta
Class Coccolithophyceae
Subclass Prymnesiophycidae
Order Phaeocystales
Family Phaeocystaceae
Genus Phaeocystis

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Gower Peninsula, Wales; bloom-producing accumulation of foam. 07 Jun 2005. David John. © David John (d_m_john@ntlworld.com).

Gower Peninsula, Wales. Bloom producing accumulation of foam. 07 Jun 2005. David John. © David John (d_m_john@ntlworld.com).

Phaeocystis pouchetii (Hariot) Lagerheim Gower Peninsula, Wales; bloom-producing accumulation of foam

Publication details
Phaeocystis pouchetii (Hariot) Lagerheim 1896: 278

Original publication: Lagerheim, G. (1896). Über Phaeocystis Poucheti (Har.) Lagerh.: eine Planktonflagellate. Öfvers. Förh. Kongl. Svenska Vetensk.-Akad 53: 277-288.

Type species
This is the type species (holotype) of the genus Phaeocystis.

Status of name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.

Basionym
Tetraspora pouchetii Hariot

Type information
Type locality: North Atlantic (along the coast of Norway from the Lofoten Islands to Varangersfjord)

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Tetraspora pouchetii Hariot 1892

General environment
This is a marine species.

Usage notes
Harmful species

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Phaeocystis pouchetii (Hariot) Lagerheim)
Arctic: Svalbard (Lange, Chen & Medlin 2002).

Europe: Britain (Parke & Dixon 1976), Norway (Lange, Chen & Medlin 2002 ).

South America: Brazil (Bergesh 2010).

Australia and New Zealand: New Zealand (Rhodes et al. 2012).

Key references
Hallegraeff, G.M., Anderson, D.M. & Cembella, A.D., Eds (2003). Manual on harmful marine microalgae. Paris: UNESCO.

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

Lagerheim, G. (1896). Phaeocystis nov. gen., grundadt på Tetraspora Poucheti Har. Botaniska Notiser 1893: 32-33.

Medlin, L.K., Lange, M. & Baumann, M.E.M. (1994). Genetic differentiation among three colony-forming species of Phaeocystis: further evidence for the phylogeny of the Prymnesiophyta. Phycologia 33(3): 199-212, 6 figs, 6 tables.

Nakayama, T., Yoshida, M., Noël, M.-H., Kawachi, M. & Inouye, I. (2005). Ultrastructure and phylogenetic position of Chrysoculter rhomhoideus gen. et sp. nov. (Prymnesiophyceae), a new flagellate haptophyte from Japanese coastal waters. Phycologia 44: 369-383.

Parke, M. & Dixon, P.S. (1976). Check-list of British marine algae - third revision. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 56: 527-594.

Throndsen, J. (1996). The planktonic marine flagellates. In: Identifying marine phytoplankton. (Tomas, C.R. Eds), pp. 591-730. San Diego: Academic Press.

SAG Cultures
SAG Cultures may be viewed at http://sagdb.uni-goettingen.de/showstrains.php?genus=Phaeocystis&species=pouchetii

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=Phaeocystis&Species=pouchetii

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 17 May 2002 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 25 May 2012 by Wendy Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 2225 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.)

Brussaard, C.P.D., Thyrhaug, R., Marie, D. & Bratbak, G. (1999). Flow cytometric analyses of viral infection in two marine phytoplankton species, Micromonas pusilla (Prasinophyceae) and Phaeocystis pouchetii (Prymnesiophyceae). Journal of Phycology 35: 941-948, 5 figs.
Chang, F.H. (1984). The ultrastructure of Phaeocystis pouchetii (Prymnesiophyceae) vegetative colonies with species reference to the production of new Mucilaginous envelope. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 18: 303-308.
Jacobsen, A., Bratbak, G. & Heldal, M. (1996). Isolation and characterization of a virus infecting Phaeocystis pouchetii (Prymnesiophyceae). Journal of Phycology 32: 923-927, 4 figs, 2 tables.
Veldhuis, M.J.W. (1987). The eco-physiology of the colonial alga Phaeocystis pouchetii. Rijksuniversiteit Te Groningen : 1-127.
Weisse, T. & Scheffel-Möser, U. (1990). Morphometric characteristics and carbon content of Phaeocystis cf. pouchetii (Prymnesiophyceae). Botanica Marina 33: 197-203.

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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 24 May 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:46433