Pavlova | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Clade: | Diaphoretickes |
Phylum: | Haptista |
Subphylum: | Haptophytina |
Class: | Pavlovophyceae |
Order: | Pavlovales |
Family: | Pavlovaceae |
Genus: | Pavlova Butcher, 1952 |
Pavlova is a genus of algae belonging to the family Pavlovaceae.[1]
The genus has cosmopolitan distribution.[2]
The genus name of Pavlova is in honour of Anna Pawlowna Pawlowa (1881–1931), who was a Russian prima ballerina of the late 19th and the early 20th centuries. This is because "the movement of the type species, Pavlova gyrans, is positively balletic".[3]
The genus was circumscribed by Roger William Butcher in J. Mar. Biol. Assoc. U.K. vol.31 on page 183, fig. 35-38 in 1952.