Taxonavigation

Familia: Chloropicaceae
Genus: Chloropicon
Species: Chloropicon primus

Name

Chloropicon primus Lopes dos Santos & Eikrem, in Lopes dos Santos et al., 2017

• Type locality: Gulf Stream, North East Atlantic.
• Holotype: Cells embedded in resin block and thin-sections deposited at the Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, accession number O-A-10002. Figure 4B shows cell from the thin sections. Culture deposited in the Roscoff Culture Collection as RCC15. RCC15 was isolated in 1965 from a sample collected during the Trident cruise 26 in the Gulf Stream, North East Atlantic.
• Etymology: The first species of the genus to be isolated into culture and have its 18S rRNA gene sequence published.

References

• Lopes dos Santos, A., Pollina, T., Gourvil, P., Corre, E., Marie, D., Garrido, J.L., Rodríguez, F., Noël, M.-H., Vaulot, D. & Eikrem, W. 2017. Chloropicophyceae, a new class of picophytoplanktonic prasinophytes. Scientific Reports 7(14019): 1–20, 7 figs, 3 tables. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-12412-5 Reference page. : 16, fig. 4 B
• Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2020. Chloropicon primus. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. Accessed 2020-02-08.