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Taxonomy

Kingdom: Chromista
Division: Haptophyta
Class: Prymnesiophyceae
Order: Prymnesiales
Family: Prymnesiaceae
Genus: Dicrateria
Species: rotunda
Authority: (Reynolds) Bendif et Probert

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Origin

Climate zone: Temperate
Habitat: Coastal
Ocean: North Atlantic
Sea: Iroise Sea
Country: France
Region: Brittany

Identity

Distributed: ✔
Holotype: ✖
Axenic: ✖
Clonal: ✔
Toxicity: Unknown
Aquaculture: ✖
Ecotoxicology: ✖
Teaching: ✖
Ecosystem marker: ✖
rARN 18S sequence available: ✔
Genbank: SSU : AM491014

Morphology

Flagellate: ✔

Culture

Isolation date: 1982
Isolation site: Rade de Brest
Isolation previous code: HAP23
Culture medium: K/2 ES
Growth temperature: 19
Growth light: 100
Bibliography
- E. Ponis, I. Probert, B. Véron, M. Mathieu and R. Robert. (2006) New microalgae for the Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas larvae. Aquaculture 253: 618 - 627. - Edvardsen et al. (2011). Ribosomal DNA phylogenies and a morphological revision provide the basis for a revised taxonomy of the Prymnesiales (Haptophyta). Eur. J. Phycol. 46 (3): 202-228 - Bittner L, Gobet A, Audic S, Romac S, Egge E.S., Santini S, Ogata H, Probert I, Edvardsen B and de Vargas C (2012) Diversity patterns of uncultured Haptophytes unravelled by pyrosequencing in Naples Bay. Molecular Ecology DOI: 10.1111/mec.12108 - EM Bendif, I. Probert, DC Schroeder and C. de Vargas (2013) On the description of Tisochrysis lutea gen.nov. sp. nov. and Isochrysis nuda sp. nov. in the Isochrysidales, and the transfer of Dicrateria to the Prymnesiales (Haptophyta). J. Appl. Phycol. DOI 10.1007/s10811-013-0037-0