Rhabdosphaera clavigera is a marine, unicellular species of coccolithophore in the genus Rhabdosphaera. The species name references the Latin word claviger (one who carries a club) to describe the pentameral (five-point) spines emerging from the calcium carbonate coccosphere.[1][2] The stylifera variant has shorter, thinner, and symmetrical spines, as compared to the type species.[3]
Rhabdosphaera clavigera | |
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Electron microscopy image of Rhabdosphaera clavigera | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Clade: | Diaphoretickes |
Phylum: | Haptista |
Subphylum: | Haptophytina |
Class: | Prymnesiophyceae |
Order: | Syracosphaerales |
Family: | Rhabdosphaeraceae |
Genus: | Rhabdosphaera |
Species: | R. clavigera
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Binomial name | |
Rhabdosphaera clavigera Murray and Blackman, 1898[1]
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References
edit- ^ a b Murray, George; Blackman, Vernon Herbert (1898-01-01). "VI. On the nature of the coccospheres and rhabdospheres". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Containing Papers of a Biological Character. 190: 427–441. doi:10.1098/rstb.1898.0006.
- ^ Sardet, Christian (5 June 2015). Rafael D. Rosengarten; Theodore Rosengarten (eds.). Plankton: Wonders of the Drifting World. Translated by Christian Sardet; Dana Sardet. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. p. 50. ISBN 978-0-226-18871-3. OCLC 889996855.
- ^ Young, Jeremy R.; Bown, Paul R.; Lees, Jacqueline A. "Rhabdosphaera clavigera". mikrotax.org. Retrieved 2022-10-23.