Taxonomy

Kingdom: Chromista
Division: Haptophyta
Class: Prymnesiophyceae
Order: Isochrysidales
Family: Noelhaerabdaceae
Genus: Gephyrocapsa
Species: oceanica
Authority: Kamptner, 1943

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Origin

Origine #119 Côtier Portugal
Climate zone: Temperate
Habitat: Coastal
Ocean: North Atlantic
Country: Portugal

Identity

Distributed: Yes
Holotype: No
Axenic: No
Clonal: No
Toxicity: Unknown
Aquaculture: No
Ecotoxicology: No
Teaching: No
Ecosystem marker: No
rARN 18S sequence available: No

Morphology

Flagellate: Yes
Wall: Coccosphere

Culture

Isolation date: 1998
Isolation previous code: PC71
Culture medium: K/5
Conservation method: Liquid
Growth temperature: 17
Purity: Yes
Bibliography
- Fraga et al. (2012) In situ survey of life cycle phases of the coccolithophore Emiliania huxleyi (Haptophya). Environmental microbiology 14(6) : 1558-1569. (Strain cites as AC396)