Coronosphaera mediterranea (Lohmann) Gaarder

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

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Publication details
Coronosphaera mediterranea (Lohmann) Gaarder in Gaarder & Heimdal 1977: 60, 62, pl. 4, figs 21-26

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

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

Basionym
Syracosphaera mediterranea Lohmann

Type information
Type locality: Syracus, Sicily (Silva 1996-to date).

Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), Mediterranean Sea (Stearn 1973).

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Syracosphaera mediterranea Lohmann 1902

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Syracosphaera tuberculata Kamptner 1937
Syracosphaera pulchroides Halldal & Markali 1955

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Syracosphaera mediterranea Lohmann)
Europe: Britain (Parke & Dixon 1976).

(as Coronosphaera mediterranea (Lohmann) Gaarder)
Europe: Romania (Caraus 2012).

South America: Brazil (Bergesh 2010).

Asia: Taiwan (Anon. 2012).

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

Pacific Islands: Hawaiian Islands (Cortés & Bollmann 2002).

Taxonomic notes
Cortés & Bollmann (2002) describe a combination coccosphere of the heterococcolithophore species Coronosphaera mediterranea and the holococcolithophore species Calyptrolithophora hasleana. They conclude that this combination plus the combination of Coronosphaera mediterranea with Calyptrolithina wettsteinii implies that these three taxa belong to the same species. They note that the name Coronosphaera mediterranea has priority and is therefore the appropriate name. They note that Cros et al. (2000) have suggested a revision of the nomenclatural taxonomy of hetero- and holococcolith associations and according to their proposal, suggest the following names for the heterococcolith-bearing and the two holococcolith-bearing phases of this species: Coronosphaera mediterranea, Coronosphaera mediterranea HO wettsteinii and Coronosphaera mediterranea HO hasleana. - (16 Dec 2010) - Wendy Guiry

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
Cortés, M.Y. & Bollmann, J. (2002). A new combination coccosphere of the heterococcolith species Coronosphaera mediterranea and the holococcolith species Calyptrolithophora hasleana (Comment). European Journal of Phycology 37(1): 145, 146.

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

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

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=Coronosphaera&Species=mediterranea

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 17 February 2005 by Wendy Guiry

Verified by: 17 December 2010 by Wendy Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 249 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.)

Cortés, M.Y. & Bollman, J. (2002). Comment: A new combination coccosphere of the heterococcolith species Coronosphaera mediterranea and the holococcolith species Calyptrolithophora hasleana. European Journal of Phycology 37: 145-146.
Cortés, M.Y. & Bollmann, J. (2002). A new combination coccosphere of the heterococcolith species Coronosphaera mediterranea and the holococcolith species Calyptrolithophora hasleana (Comment). European Journal of Phycology 37(1): 145, 146.

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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 20 May 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:89101