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Taxonomy

Kingdom: Chromista
Division: Haptophyta
Class: Prymnesiophyceae
Order: Coccolithales
Family: Pleurochrysidaceae
Genus: Pleurochrysis
Species: roscoffensis

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Origin

Climate zone: Temperate
Habitat: Coastal
Ocean: North Atlantic
Sea: English Channel
Country: France
Region: Basse-Normandie

Identity

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

Morphology

Flagellate: ✔
Wall: Coccosphere

Culture

Isolation date: 1979
Isolation site: Courseulles-sur-mer
Isolation previous code: HAP48
Culture medium: f/2
Growth temperature: 16
Growth light: 130
Bibliography
- Gayral P, Fresnel J. (1983) Description, sexualité et cycle de développement d'une nouvelle coccolithophoracée (Prymnesiophyceae) : Pleurochrysis pseudoroscoffensis sp. nov. Protistologica XIX (2) : 245-261 - 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