Discosphaera tubifer (Murray & Blackman) Ostenfeld

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Chromista
Phylum Haptophyta
Class Coccolithophyceae
Subclass Prymnesiophycidae
Order Syracosphaerales
Family Rhabdosphaeraceae
Genus Discosphaera

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Publication details
Discosphaera tubifer (Murray & Blackman) Ostenfeld 1900: 200

Original publication: Ostenfeld, C.H. (1900). Über Coccosphaera. Zoologischer Anzeiger 23: 198-200.

Type species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Discosphaera is Discosphaera thomsonii Ostenfeld.

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

Basionym
Rhabdosphaera tubifer Murray & Blackman

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Rhabdosphaera tubifer Murray & Blackman 1898

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Discosphaera thomsonii Ostenfeld 1899

General environment
This is a marine species.

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Discosphaera tubifer (Murray & Blackman) Ostenfeld)
Europe: Britain (Parke & Dixon 1976).

South America: Brazil (Bergesh 2010).

Asia: Taiwan (Anon. 2012).

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

Taxonomic notes
See Norris (1984: J. of Phycology, 20: 1, pp. 35) for information on the taxonomy of this species. Heimdal (1997: 791) records the specific epithet of this species as tubifer.

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

Key references
Heimdal, B.R. (1996). Modern coccolithophorids. In: Identifying marine phytoplankton. (Tomas, C.R. Eds), pp. 731-834. San Diego: Academic Press.

Norris, R.E. (1984). Indian Ocean nanoplankton. I. Rhabdosphaeraceae (Prymnesiophyceae) with a review of extant taxa. Journal of Phycology 20: 27-41.

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

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=Discosphaera&Species=tubifer

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 02 September 2002 by Olivia Fitzgerald

Verified by: 13 October 2011 by M.D. Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 457 times since it was created.

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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 23 May 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:44575