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Original descriptions of taxa. For coccolithophores, and many calcispheres, these are pages from the Farinacci & Howe Catalog of Calcareous Nannofossils. In other cases (e.g. non-calcifying haptophytes) the data is directly compiled on this site. The "Catalogue of Calcareous Nannofossils" was originally compiled by Prof A. Farinacci 1969-1989, since 2000 it has been updated and extended by Richard Howe - see The Farinacci and Howe Catalog - an Introduction.
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Current identification/main database link: Haptolina brevifilum (Parke and Manton in Parke et al. 1955) Edvardsen & Eikrem, in Edvardsen et al., 2011
Compiled data
Original Description
Cells uninucleate, no stigma. Chromatophores usually 2 or 4, occasionally 1 or 8, golden brown; in motile phase saucer-shaped, ellipsoid or oblong, parietal with small globular body (pyrenoid ?) on inner face of each near the margin towards the non-flagellar pole; in non-motile phase deeply lobed or stellate. Oil and leucosin produced. Muciferous bodies conspicuous, usually inrows,buttheirpositionchangingwiththemetabolyofthebody. Nutrition holophytic and/or phagotrophic. Not toxic to fish.
In motile phase asexual reproduction by fission into 2 or 4 daughter-cells: in non-motile phase by fission of amoeboid cells to produce 4 walled daughter-cells which probably liberate motile phase.
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Editors' Notes
Parke, M., Manton, I. & Clarke, B. (1955). Studies on marine flagellates. II. Three new species of Chrysochromulina. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 34: 579-604. gsReferences:
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Chrysochromulina brevifilum: Catalog entry compiled by Jeremy Young. Viewed: 23-3-2025
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