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Taxonomy

Kingdom: Chromista
Division: Haptophyta
Class: Prymnesiophyceae
Order: Coccolithales
Family: Pleurochrysidaceae
Genus: Pleurochrysis
Species: placolithoides
Authority: Fresnel and Billard, 1991

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Origin

Climate zone: Temperate
Habitat: Cliff
Ocean: North Atlantic
Country: France
Region: Brittany

Identity

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

Morphology

Flagellate: ✔
Length: 2-4
Width: 1,5-3
Wall: Coccosphere

Culture

Isolation date: 1983
Isolation site: Belle-Isle en Mer / Port-Maria
Isolation previous code: HAP59
Culture medium: f/2
Growth temperature: 16
Growth light: 130
Bibliography
- Fresnel J and Billard C. (1991) Pleurochrysis placolithoides sp. nov. (Prymnesiophyceae), a new marine coccolithophorid with remarks on the status of cricolith-bearing species. Br. phycol J. 26: 67-80. - 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