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Coccolithophore combination coccospheres from the NE Mediterranean Sea: new evidence and taxonomic revisions.

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Triantaphyllou M, Karatsolis B-T, Dimiza M, Malinverno E, Cerino F, Psarra S, Jordan R, Young J. Coccolithophore combination coccospheres from the NE Mediterranean Sea: new evidence and taxonomic revisions. Micropaleontology [Internet]. 2015;61(6):457-472. Copy at http://www.tinyurl.com/jnt3bqk

Abstract:

Numerous specimens of coccolithophore combination coccospheres in water samples collected from the North Aegean and Tyrrhenian (Mediterranean Sea) have been photographed using the scanning electron microscope.As a consequence a series of taxonomic revisions are proposed, in which the names of the heterococcolithophores and holococcolithophores involved in the same life-cycle are synonymized. This has resulted in synonymizing the genus Coronosphaera with Syracosphaera and establishing one new combination; Syracosphaera arethusae (Kamptner 1941) comb. nov.

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