Chloropicophyceae
Chloropicophyceae | |
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Chloropicon sieburthii, type species | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
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Class: | Chloropicophyceae Lopes dos Santos & Eikrem 2017
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Order: | Chloropicales Lopes dos Santos & Eikrem 2017
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Family: | Chloropicaceae Lopes dos Santos & Eikrem 2017
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Chloropicophyceae is a class of
Description
Members of this class are coccoid green cells, with a diameter of 1.5–4 µm, found in marine waters, with one
Taxonomy
In total, this class contains eight newly described species, belonging to two genera. The taxonomy goes as follows[1] :
- Division Chlorophyta Reichenbach 1834
- Class Chloropicophyceae Lopes dos Santos & Eikrem 2017
- Order Chloropicales Lopes dos Santos & Eikrem 2017
- Family Chloropicaceae Lopes dos Santos & Eikrem 2017
- Genus Chloropicon Lopes dos Santos & Eikrem 2017
- Chloropicon sieburthii Lopes dos Santos & Eikrem 2017 (type species)
- Chloropicon primus Lopes dos Santos & Eikrem 2017
- Chloropicon roscoffensis Lopes dos Santos & Eikrem 2017
- Chloropicon mariensis Lopes dos Santos & Eikrem 2017
- Chloropicon laureae Lopes dos Santos & Eikrem 2017
- Chloropicon maureeniae Lopes dos Santos & Eikrem 2017
- Genus Chloroparvula Lopes dos Santos & Eikrem 2017
- Chloroparvula pacifica Lopes dos Santos & Eikrem 2017 (type species)
- Chloroparvula japonica Lopes dos Santos & Eikrem 2017
- Genus Chloropicon Lopes dos Santos & Eikrem 2017
- Family Chloropicaceae Lopes dos Santos & Eikrem 2017
- Order Chloropicales Lopes dos Santos & Eikrem 2017
- Class Chloropicophyceae Lopes dos Santos & Eikrem 2017
Phylogeny
In the 2017 article where the new class is described, it is shown as the sister clade of the class
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References
This article incorporates "Chloropicophyceae, a new class of picophytoplanktonic prasinophytes" text from this source, which is by Adriana Lopes dos Santos, Thibaut Pollina, Priscilla Gourvil, Erwan Corre, Dominique Marie, José Luis Garrido, Francisco Rodríguez, Mary-Hélène Noël, Daniel Vaulot and Wenche Eikrem available under the CC BY 4.0 license.