Calcidiscus quadriperforatus (Kamptner) Quinn & Geisen 2003

Publication Details
Calcidiscus quadriperforatus (Kamptner) Quinn & Geisen 2003: 7168

Published in: Sáez, A.G., Probert, I., Geisen, M., Quinn, P., Young, J.R. & Medlin, L.K. (2003). Pseudo-cryptic speciation in coccolithophores. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the United States of America 100: 7163-7168.

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Type Species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Calcidiscus is Calcidiscus quadriforatus (Kamptner) Deflandre.

Status of Name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Calcidiscus leptoporus subsp. quadriperforatus (Kamptner) Geisen, Billard, Broerse, L.Cros, Probert & Jer.R.Young.

Source of Synonymy
Findlay, C.S., Young, J.R. & Scott, F.J. (2005). Haptophyta:Order Coccolithophorales. In: Antarctic marine protists. (Scott, F.J. & Marchant, H.J. Eds), pp. 276-294. Canberra & Hobart: Australian Biological Resources Study; Australian Antarctic Division.

Basionym
Syracosphaera quadriperforata Kamptner

Type Information
Type locality: Mediterranean Sea: Gulf of Lepantos [Corinth]; off Kéos (island); between islands of Psará and Chios; (INA 1996)

Created: 04 February 2005 by G.M. Guiry.

Last updated: 16 December 2014

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Salvador Valenzuela Miranda in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 16 December 2014. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 25 April 2025

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