Prymnesium

Prymnesium
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Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Diaphoretickes
Phylum: Haptista
Subphylum: Haptophytina
Class: Prymnesiophyceae
Order: Prymnesiales
Family: Prymnesiaceae
Genus: Prymnesium
Massart, 1920 emend. Edvardsen, Eikrem & Probert, 2011[1]

Prymnesium is a genus of haptophytes, including the species Prymnesium parvum.[2] The genus is a unicellular motile alga. It is ellipsoidal in shape one flagellum is straight and there are two longer ones which enable movement.[3]

The name Latinizes the Greek prymnēsion ‘cable (for mooring)’,[4][5] from prymna ‘stern’, from prymnos ‘hindmost’.[6][self-published source]

Prymnesium was likely first recognized and drawn (although not named as such) on July 1, 1920,[7] and then (seemingly independently) officially named shortly afterwards on July 6, 1920.[8]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Edvardsen 2011 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ La Claire, JW (2006). "Analysis of expressed sequence tags from the harmful alga, Prymnesium parvum (Prymnesiophyceae, Haptophyta)". Mar. Biotechnol. 8 (5): 534–46. Bibcode:2006MarBt...8..534L. doi:10.1007/s10126-005-5182-2. PMID 16896534. S2CID 27204487.
  3. ^ Fritsch, F.E. 1965. The Structure and Reproduction of the Algae. Volume 1.Cambridge University Press.
  4. ^ Cooper, Thomas (1565). Thesaurus Linguae Romanae et Britannicae. prymnesium: The post wherevnto the cable of a ship is tyed. The cable it selfe. [The post unto which the cable of a ship is tied; the cable itself.]
  5. ^ Graham, Linda E.; Wilcox, Lee Warren (2000). Algae. Prentice Hall. p. 193. ISBN 978-0-13-660333-7. Prymnesium (Gr. prymnesion, stern-cable) is a single-celled flagellate.
  6. ^ Roberts, Edward A. (2014). A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language. Vol. II. Xlibris Corp. p. 409. ISBN 978-1-4931-9111-6. proís < Cat. prois < VL. *prodesium < L. prymnēsium [...]
  7. ^ Liebert, F.; Deerns, W.M. (1920-07-01). "Nederland Nationaal Archief - Inventaris van het archief van de Hoofinspecteur der Visserijen, (1907) 1910-1922 (1924) - Item 195: Verslag van een onderzoek naar de oorzaken van de vissterfte in de polder Workumer-Nieuwland nabij Workum, door N.W. Deerns van het Rijksinstituut voor Hydrografisch Visserijonderzoek, houdende een beschrijving van visdodende flagellaten (planktonorganismen). 1920". Nederland Nationaal Archief (in Dutch). Retrieved 28 August 2023.
  8. ^ Massart, J. "Recherches sur les organismes inférieurs. VIII. - Sur la motilité des Flagellates" (PDF). Bulletin de la Classe des sciences de l'Académie Royale de Belgique (in French). 5 (6): 116–141. Retrieved 2023-07-31.