Taxonomy

Kingdom: Chromista
Division: Haptophyta
Class: Prymnesiophyceae
Order: Coccolithales
Family: Calcidiscaceae
Genus: Calcidiscus
Species: leptoporus
Authority: (Murray & Blackman, 1898) Loeblich & Tappan, 1978

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Origin

Climate zone: Temperate
Habitat: Oceanic
Ocean: South Atlantic
Country: Afrique du Sud

Identity

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

Morphology

Flagellate: ✔

Culture

Isolation date: 2000
Isolation previous code: NS8-2
Culture medium: K/5
Growth temperature: 17
Bibliography
- Colomb A, Yassaa N, Williams J, Peeken I and Lochte K. (2008) Screening volatile organic compounds (VOCs) emissions from five marine phytoplankton species by head space chromatography/mass spectrometry (HS-GS/MS). J. Environ. Monit 10:325-330.