A reappraisal of the taxonomy and biodiversity of the extant coccolithophore genus Palusphaera (Rhabdosphaeraceae, Prymnesiophyceae)

This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Archontikis, Odysseas A., Young, Jeremy R. (2021): A reappraisal of the taxonomy and biodiversity of the extant coccolithophore genus Palusphaera (Rhabdosphaeraceae, Prymnesiophyceae). Phycologia 60 (6): 589-602, DOI: 10.1080/00318884.2021.1965758, URL: doi.org/10.1080/00318884.2021.1965758 ABSTRACT The genus Palusphaera Lecal-Schlauder emend.

R.E. Norris is a distinctive modern coccolithophore that accommodates monomorphic, monothecate coccospheres with one type of spine-bearing heterococcoliths. Having examined a set of scanning electron microscopy images from our collections, we were able to demonstrate that four distinct species of Palusphaera exist in the modern oceans, including the type species Palusphaera vandelii, an informally proposed form, Palusphaera sp. 1 (type robusta) that is herein taxonomically ratified as Palusphaera crosiae sp.nov., and a distinctive morphotype,which is formally described as Palusphaera bownii sp. nov.