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.
Taxa are sorted alphabetically for simple browsing, or you can use search boxes at the top & bottom of the page
Current identification:
Compiled data
Original Description
Editors' Notes
Kawachi, M., et al. (2021). Rappemonads are haptophyte phytoplankton. Current Biology. 31(11): 2395-2403. gs Kim, E., et al. (2011). Newly identified and diverse plastid-bearing branch on the eukaryotic tree of life. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA. 108: 1496-1500. gs Rappé, M. S., Suzuki, M. T., Vergin, K. L. & Giovannoni, S. J. (1998). Phylogenetic diversity of ultraplankton plastid small-subunit rRNA genes recovered in environmental nucleic acid samples from the Pacific and Atlantic coasts of the United States. Applied Environmental Micobiology. 64: 294-303. gsReferences:

![]() |
Rappephyceae: Catalog entry compiled by <% compiler %>. Viewed: 11-12-2025
Short stable page link: https://mikrotax.org/Nannotax3/index.php?id=55175 Go to Archive.is to create a permanent copy of this page - citation notes |