Prymnesiophyceae

Coccolithus pelagicus

Gephyrocapsa oceanica

Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Chromista
Subregnum: Hacrobia
Phylum: Haptophyta
Classis: Prymnesiophyceae
Ordines: Coccolithales - Coccosphaerales - Isochrysidales - Phaeocystales - Prymnesiales - Syracosphaerales - Zygodiscales - Prymnesiophyceae incertae sedis

Ordo (in synonymy): Coccolithophorales

Name

Prymnesiophyceae Casper, 1972, ex Hibberd, 1976

Synonyms

• Coccolithophyceae Rothmaler, 1951
• Haptophyceae Christensen, 1962 ex Silva, 1980
• Prymnesiophyta Hibberd, 1976
• Prymnesiida Levine et al., 1980
• Prymnesiophycidae Cavalier-Smith 1986
• Patelliferea Cavalier-Smith, 1993

References

• Prymnesiophyceae – Taxon details on AlgaeBase.

• Casper, S.J. von (1972). Observations on the fine structure of the flagellar apparatus in Chrysomonads. I. Uroglena americana Calkins. Archiv für Protistenkunde, 114: 65–82.

Links

• Prymnesiophyceae in the World Register of Marine Species

Vernacular names

français: prymnésiophycées ou coccolithophores

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Classifications

Hibberd (1976)

Hibberd, D.J. (1976). The ultrastructure and taxonomy of the Chrysophyceae and Prymnesiophyceae (Haptophyceae): a survey with some new observations on the ultrastructure of the Chrysophyceae. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Botany 72: 55–80.

"Algae"

• Chromophyta sensu stricto
  • Chrysophyceae sensu stricto [excluding the Isochrysophycidae and Craspedomonadophycidae]
  • Xanthophyceae
  • Bacillariophyceae
  • Phaeophyceae
• Prymnesiophyta
  • Prymnesiophyceae

Chrétiennot-Dinet (1990)

Chrétiennot-Dinet, M.-J. (1990). Atlas du phytoplancton marin. Volume III: Chlorarachnophycées, Chlorophycées, Chrysophycées, Cryptophycées, Euglénophycées, Eustigmatophycées, Prasinophycées, Prymnesiophycées, Rhodophycées et Tribophycées. Avec la collaboration de Chantal Billiard et Alain Sournia. pp. [1]-261. Paris: Éditions du CNRS.

• Prymnesiophyceae
  • Isochrysidales
    • Isochysidaceae
  • Prymnesiales
    • Prymnesiaceae
    • Phaeocystaceae
  • Coccosphaerales
    • Coccolithoporids distributed between 13 families
  • Pavlovales
    • Pavlovaceae

Chrétiennot-Dinet et al. (1993)

M-J. Chrétiennot-Dinet, A. Sournia, M. Ricard, and C. Billiard (1993). A classification of the marine phytoplankton of the world from class to genus. Phycologia: May 1993, Vol. 32, No. 3, pp. 159-179, [1].

• Prymnesiophyceae Hibberd 1976
  • Isochrysidales
    • Isochysidaceae
  • Prymnesiales
    • Prymnesiaceae
    • Phaeocystaceae
  • Coccolithophorales
    • Coccolithoporids distributed between 14 families
  • Pavlovales
    • Pavlovaceae