Chloropicon sieburthii

Taxonavigation

Familia: Chloropicaceae
Genus: Chloropicon
Species: Chloropicon sieburthii

Name

Chloropicon sieburthii Lopes dos Santos & Eikrem, in Lopes dos Santos et al., 2017

• Type locality: Equatorial Pacific Ocean (0°, 179°49' W) at 120 m depth.
• Holotype: Cells embedded in resin block deposited at the Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, accession number O-A-10001. Figure 2B–E show cells from the resin block. Authentic culture deposited in the Roscoff Culture Collection as RCC287.

• Eponymy: Named in honour of John McNeill Sieburth, "who published the first electron microscopy images of natural populations of marine picoeukaryotes.".

References

• Lopes dos Santos, A., Pollina, T., Gourvil, P., Corre, E., Marie, D., Garrido, J.L., Rodríguez, F., Noël, M.-H., Vaulot, D. & Eikrem, W. 2017. Chloropicophyceae, a new class of picophytoplanktonic prasinophytes. Scientific Reports 7(14019): 1–20, 7 figs, 3 tables. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-12412-5 Reference page. : 16, fig. 2 B–E
• Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2020. Chloropicon sieburthii. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. Accessed 2020-02-07.