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A NEW HELICOSPHAERA ‐ SYRACOLITHUS COMBINATION COCCOSPHERE (HAPTOPHYTA) FROM THE WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN SEA 1
Author(s) -
Couapel Martine J. J.,
Beaufort Luc,
Young and Jeremy R.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
journal of phycology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.85
H-Index - 127
eISSN - 1529-8817
pISSN - 0022-3646
DOI - 10.1111/j.1529-8817.2009.00703.x
Subject(s) - biology , mediterranean sea , mediterranean climate , assemblage (archaeology) , oceanography , ecology , paleontology , geology
A new combination coccosphere of the heterococcolithophore Helicosphaera wallichii (Lohman 1902) Okada and McIntyre 1977 and holococcolithophore Syracolithus ponticuliferus (Kamptner 1941) Kleijne and Jordan 1990 is documented. This combination coccosphere was observed within a rich and diverse assemblage collected during late summer at a 20 m water depth from the NW Mediterranean Sea.