Phaeocystis globosa Scherffel

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

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Colonial stage.. © Robin Raine (Robin.Raine@nuigalway.ie).

Partial colony taken in phase contrast.. © Robin Raine (Robin.Raine@nuigalway.ie).

Phaeocystis globosa Scherffel Partial colony taken in phase contrast.

Publication details
Phaeocystis globosa Scherffel 1899: 317

Original publication: Scherffel, A. (1899). Phaeocystis globosa n. sp. (Vorläufige Mittheilung). Berichte der Deutschen Botanische Gesellschaft 17: 317-318.

Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Phaeocystis is Phaeocystis pouchetii (Hariot) Lagerheim.

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

Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), round like a ball, globose, spherical (Stearn 1973).

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

General environment
This is a marine species.

Usage notes
Harmful species

Type information
Type locality: Helgoland (Silva 1996-to date).

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Phaeocystis globosa Scherffel)
Europe: Germany (Medlin, Lange & Baumann 1994 , Lange, Chen & Medlin 2002 ), Netherlands (Lange, Chen & Medlin 2002 ), Spain (Seoane, Eikrem, Arluzea & Orive 2009).

Atlantic Islands: Atlantic Ocean (Wang et al. 2011 ).

North America: Florida (Lange, Chen & Medlin 2002 ).

South America: Brazil (Bergesh 2010), Suriname (Lange, Chen & Medlin 2002 ).

Africa: South Africa (Lange, Chen & Medlin 2002).

Asia: China (Lange, Chen & Medlin 2002).

South-east Asia: Thailand (Lange, Chen & Medlin 2002).

Australia and New Zealand: New Zealand (Rhodes et al. 2012), Tasmania (LeRoi & Hallegraeff 2006).

Pacific Islands: Galápagos Islands (Lange, Chen & Medlin 2002), Pacific Ocean (Wang et al. 2011 ), Republic of Palau (Lange, Chen & Medlin 2002).

Key references
Funk, G. (1955). Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Meeresalgen von Neapel: Zugleich mikrophotographischer Atlas. Pubblicazioni della Stazione Zoologica di Napoli 25(Suppl.): i-x , 1- 178, 36 figs.

Gómez, F., Souissi, S. (2008). The impact of the 2003 summer heat wave and the 2005 late cold wave on the phytoplankton in the north-eastern English Channel. Comptes Rendus Biologies 331: 678685.

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.

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.

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=globosa

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=globosa

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 17 May 2002 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 03 August 2012 by Wendy Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 1859 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.)

Janse, I., van Rijssel, M., van Hall, P.-J., Gerwig, G.J., Gottschal, J.C. & Prins, R.A. (1996). The storage glucan of Phaeocystis globosa (Prymnesiophyceae) cells. Journal of Phycology 32: 382-387, 2 figs, 1 table.
Peperzak, L. & Gabler-Schwarz, S. (2012). Current knowledge of the life cycles of Phaeocystis globosa and Phaeocystis antarctica (Prymnesiophyceae). Journal of Phycology 48(3): 514-517.
Scherffel, A. (1899). Phaeocystis globosa n. sp. (Vorläufige Mittheilung). Berichte der Deutschen Botanische Gesellschaft 17: 317-318.
van Rijssel, M., Hamm, C.E. & Gieskes, W.W.C. (1997). Phaeocystis globosa (Prymnesiophyceae) colonies: hollow structures built with small amounts of polysaccharides. European Journal of Phycology 32: 185-192, 7 figs, 1 table.
Wang, X., Wang, Y. & Smith, W.O. Jr (2011). The role of nitrogen on the growth and colony development of Phaeocystis globosa (Prymnesiophyceae). European Journal of Phycology 46(3): 305-314.

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Citing AlgaeBase
Cite this record as:
M.D. 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:46432