Coccolithus pelagicus (G.C.Wall.) J.Schiller
Coccolithus pelagicus
Coccolith case (SEM)
Photographer/artist Mats Kuylenstierna
Additional image information
- Title
- Coccolithus pelagicus
- Photographer/artist
- Mats Kuylenstierna
- Copyright holder
- Maria Kuylenstierna
- Copyright stamp
- Maria Kuylenstierna
- Institute
- Dept. of Marine botany, University of Gothenburg
- Contributing organisation
- University of Gothenburg
- Contributor
- Bengt Karlson
- Caption
- Coccolith case (SEM)
- Geographic area
- Skagerrak - Swedish coast
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported
- Technique
- SEM Scanning Electron Microscopy
- Preservation
- Not described
- Stain
- Sputter coated
- Image galleries
- Kuylenstierna, Skagerrak-Kattegat
Description
- IDs in other systems
- Dyntaxa ID: 236938
More info at http://www.artdata.slu.se/dyntaxa - AlgaeBase ID: 54934
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- Dyntaxa ID: 236938
- Tropic type
- A
- Morphology
- Mostly a bar crosses the central pore of the coccolith
- Other remarks
- The holococcolithophorids Crystallolithus braarudii Gaarder and C. hyalinus Gaarder et Markali are part in the life history (Heimdal 1993)
Distribution: North Atlantic, Mediterranean, New Zealand, Skagerrak - Life form
- Solitary
- Size
- Diameter = 10-40 µm, length of placolith = 4.4-13 µm
- Literature
- Heimdal, B. R. 1993. Modern Coccolithophorids. In: Tomas, C. R. (ed.) Marine Phytoplankton: a guide to naked flagellates and coccolithophorids. p. 147-247.
Manton, I. & Leedale, G. F. 1969. Observations on the microanatomy of Coccolithus pelagicus and Cricosphaera carterae, with special reference to the origin and nature of coccoliths and scales. J. Mar. Biol. Ass. U.K. 49: 1-16.
Parke, M. & Adams, I. 1960. The motile (Crystallolithus hyalinus Gaarder & Markali) and non-motile phases in the life history of Coccolithus pelagicus (Wallich) Schiller. J. Mar. Biol. Ass. U.K. 39: 263-274.
Subordinate taxa
Illustration | Taxon name |
---|---|
Coccolithus pelagicus ssp. braarudii | |
Coccolithus pelagicus ssp. pelagicus |
Change History
- 2011-09-26 19:05:30 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Coccolithus pelagicus_2.gif
- 2011-09-26 19:04:36 Bengt Karlson - Added media: Coccolithus pelagicus_2.gif