Biology:Collosphaera

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Short description: Genus of radiolaria

Collosphaera
Illustration of "Collosphaera huxleyi"
Illustration of Collosphaera huxleyi
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Diaphoretickes
Clade: SAR
Phylum: Retaria
Class: Polycystinea
Order: Nassellaria
Family: Collozoidae
Subfamily: Collosphaeridae
Genus: Collosphaera
Müller 1859
Species

6; see text

Collosphaera is a radiolarian genus in the family 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]

  • Collosphaera armata Brandt
  • Collosphaera confossa Takahashi, 1991
  • Collosphaera huxleyi Mueller, 1855
  • Collosphaera macropora Popofsky, 1917
  • Collosphaera polygona Haeckel, 1887
  • Collosphaera tuberosa Haeckel, 1887

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 WoRMS (2008). "Collosphaera Müller, 1859". World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=367317. Retrieved March 25, 2019. 
  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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