Chloropicon primus Lopes Santos & Eikrem 2017
Publication Details
Chloropicon primus Lopes Santos & Eikrem 2017: 16, fig. 4 B
Published in: Lopes dos Santos, A., Pollina, T., Gourvil, P., Corre, E., Marie, D., Garrido, J.L., Rodríguez, F., Noël, M.H., Vaulot, D. & Eikrem, W. (2017). Chloropicophyceae, a new class of picophytoplanktonic prasinophytes. Scientific Reports 7(14019): 1-20, 7 figs, 3 tables.
Request PDFPublication date: 25 October 2017
Type Species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Chloropicon is Chloropicon sieburthii Lopes Santos & Eikrem.
Status of Name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Type Information
Type locality: "Gulf Stream, North East Atlantic."; (Lopes dos Santos & al. 2017: 16) Notes: "Holotype: Cells embedded in resin block and thin-sections deposited at the Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, accession number O-A-10002. Figure 4B shows cell from the thin sections. Culture deposited in the Roscoff Culture Collection as RCC15." RCC15 was isolated in 1965 from a sample collected during the Trident cruise 26 in the Gulf Stream, North East Atlantic. Etymology: The first species of the genus to be isolated into culture and have its 18S rRNA gene sequence published.
General Environment
This is a marine species.
Created: 25 October 2017 by M.D. Guiry.
Last updated: 11 November 2023
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E.A. Molinari Novoa in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 11 November 2023. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 27 April 2024
