Taxonomic re-evaluation of Ericiolus and Mercedesia (Prymnesiophyceae) and description of three new species

IF 1.5 4区 生物学 Q3 MARINE & FRESHWATER BIOLOGY
O. Archontikis, Josué G. Millán, A. Winter, J. Young
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ABSTRACT The genera Ericiolus and Mercedesia are distinctive extant coccolithophores that are characterized by monothecate, monomorphic coccospheres with one type of triradiate star-shaped nannoliths. The two genera were described from the Danish coastal waters, the surface waters of the Arctic, and the Southern Oceans. During a study of samples from the low photic zone of the Mediterranean and Sargasso Seas, and from the subtropical gyres of the South-eastern Pacific and the South Atlantic Oceans, 44 collapsed coccospheres with triradiate star-like nannoliths were observed via scanning electron microscopy. Observations on the morphologies and biometric assessments of these specimens revealed that three distinct sets of nannoliths can be distinguished and that these were morphologically differentiated from all currently known species of Ericiolus and Mercedesia. The new forms and the previously described species of Ericiolus and Mercedesia were, however, similar, as they all demonstrated a distinctive set of collectively shared morphological characters and almost identical size ranges. On the basis of this, and instead of describing a third genus for the same group of nannoliths, we preferred to taxonomically synonymize Mercedesia with Ericiolus and revise the definition of Ericiolus. Therefore, we describe three new species, Ericiolus bendifii sp. nov., Ericiolus sheldoniae sp. nov. and Ericiolus mattioliae sp. nov., and an incompletely defined taxon, as Ericiolus cf. bendifii, and establish the new combinations E. aspiphorus comb. nov., E. multistellatus comb. nov. and E. pusillus comb. nov.
云杉科云杉属和梅塞德属的分类学再评价及三新种描述
摘要Ericiolus属和Mercedesia属是现存的两个独特的球石藻属,其特征是单体、单形态的球石和一种三辐射星形的楠石藻。这两个属来自丹麦沿海水域、北极表层水域和南大洋。在对地中海和马尾藻海低光区以及东南太平洋和南大西洋副热带环流的样本进行研究期间,通过扫描电子显微镜观察到了44个具有三辐射星状纳米结构的坍塌球形球体。对这些标本的形态和生物特征评估的观察表明,可以区分三组不同的楠形石,并且这些楠形石在形态上与目前已知的所有Ericiolus和Mercedesia物种都有区别。然而,Ericiolus和Mercedesia的新形态和之前描述的物种是相似的,因为它们都表现出一组独特的共同形态特征和几乎相同的大小范围。在此基础上,我们更倾向于在分类学上将Mercedesia与Ericiolus同义,并修改Ericiorus的定义,而不是为同一组楠属植物描述第三个属。因此,我们描述了三个新物种,Ericiolus bendifi sp.nov.,Ericious sheldoniae sp.nov..和Ericious mattioliae sp.nova.,以及一个未完全定义的分类单元,Ericiorus cf.bendifi,并建立了E.aspiphorus comb的新组合。nov.,E.multistellatus comb。nov.和E.pusilul-comb。十一月
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Phycologia
Phycologia 生物-海洋与淡水生物学
CiteScore
3.10
自引率
18.80%
发文量
54
审稿时长
3 months
期刊介绍: Phycologia is published bimonthly by the International Phycological Society and serves as a publishing medium for information about any aspect of phycology. Membership in the Society is not necessary for publication. Submitted manuscripts cannot be previously published or submitted elsewhere. Copyright ownership of all accepted papers is held by the International Phycological Society.
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