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Taxonomy

Kingdom: Chromista
Division: Haptophyta
Class: Prymnesiophyceae
Order: Prymnesiales
Family: Prymnesiaceae
Genus: Prymnesium
Species: pigrum
Authority: (Geitler) Edvardsen, Eikrem & Probert

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Origin

Climate zone: Mediterranean
Habitat: Coastal
Sea: Mediterranean Sea
Country: France
Region: Languedoc-Roussillon

Identity

Distributed: ✔
Holotype: ✖
Axenic: ✖
Clonal: ✔
Toxicity: Unknown
Aquaculture: ✖
Ecotoxicology: ✖
Teaching: ✖
Ecosystem marker: ✖
rARN 18S sequence available: ✔
Genbank: AM491003

Morphology

Flagellate: ✔

Culture

Isolation date: 1980
Isolation site: Banyuls-sur-Mer
Isolation previous code: HAP83, Dinet 31
Culture medium: ES
Growth temperature: 19
Bibliography
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