Rhabdosphaera clavigera

Rhabdosphaera clavigera
Electron microscopy image of Rhabdosphaera clavigera
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Diaphoretickes
Phylum: Haptista
Subphylum: Haptophytina
Class: Prymnesiophyceae
Order: Syracosphaerales
Family: Rhabdosphaeraceae
Genus: Rhabdosphaera
Species:
R. clavigera
Binomial name
Rhabdosphaera clavigera
Murray and Blackman, 1898[1]

Rhabdosphaera clavigera is a marine, unicellular species of coccolithophore in the genus Rhabdosphaera. The species name references the Latin word claviger (one who carries a club) to describe the pentameral (five-point) spines emerging from the calcium carbonate coccosphere.[1][2] The stylifera variant has shorter, thinner, and symmetrical spines, as compared to the type species.[3]

  1. ^ a b Murray, George; Blackman, Vernon Herbert (1898-01-01). "VI. On the nature of the coccospheres and rhabdospheres". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Containing Papers of a Biological Character. 190: 427–441. doi:10.1098/rstb.1898.0006.
  2. ^ Sardet, Christian (5 June 2015). Rafael D. Rosengarten; Theodore Rosengarten (eds.). Plankton: Wonders of the Drifting World. Translated by Christian Sardet; Dana Sardet. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. p. 50. ISBN 978-0-226-18871-3. OCLC 889996855.
  3. ^ Young, Jeremy R.; Bown, Paul R.; Lees, Jacqueline A. "Rhabdosphaera clavigera". mikrotax.org. Retrieved 2022-10-23.