Biology:Acrosphaera

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Short description: Genus of radiolaria

Acrosphaera
Illustration of "Acrosphaera spinosa"
Illustration of Acrosphaera spinosa
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Diaphoretickes
Clade: SAR
Phylum: Retaria
Class: Polycystinea
Order: Nassellaria
Family: Collozoidae
Subfamily: Collosphaeridae
Genus: Acrosphaera
Species

5; see text

Acrosphaera is a radiolarian genus in the Collosphaeridae.[1] The genus contains bioluminescent species.[2][3] It is a genus of colonial radiolarians (as opposed to solitary).[4]

Species

The following species are recognized:[1]

  • Acrosphaera arktios (Nigrini, 1970)
  • Acrosphaera cyrtodon (Haeckel) Strelkov & Reshetnyak, 1971
  • Acrosphaera lappacea (Haeckel) Johnson & Nigrini, 1980
  • Acrosphaera murrayana (Haeckel) Hilmers, 1906
  • Acrosphaera spinosa Caulet, 1986
  • Acrosphaera trepanata

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 WoRMS (2010). "Acrosphaera ". World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=493471. 
  2. Herring, Peter J. (1987). "Systematic distribution of bioluminescence in living organisms". Journal of Bioluminescence and Chemiluminescence 1 (3): 147–163. doi:10.1002/bio.1170010303. PMID 3503524. 
  3. Poupin J.; Cussatlegras A.S.; Geistdoerfer P. (1999). Plancton Marin Bioluminescent: inventaire documenté des espèces et bilan des formes les plus communes de la mer d'Iroise. Ecole Navale, Laboratoire d'Océanographie. pp. 64 pp, 1–11 planches. https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01074799/document. Retrieved March 25, 2019. 
  4. Latz, Michael I.; Frank, Tamara M.; Case, James F.; Swift, Elijah; Bidigare, Robert R. (1987). "Bioluminescence of colonial radiolaria in the western Sargasso Sea". Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 109 (1): 25–38. doi:10.1016/0022-0981(87)90183-3. ISSN 0022-0981. 

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