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"Crown sphere" -- Crown Corona- sphere –sphaera
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Coronosphaera Gaarder in Gaarder and Heimdal 1977; all 3 of 3 species descriptions are currently accepted taxonomically (Guiry and Guiry 2013). Order Syracosphaerales; Family SyracosphaeraceaeSynonym Syracosphaera mediterranea Lohmann
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References: |
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Heimdal, B.R. 1993. Modern coccolithophorids. In: Identifying marine phytoplankton. (Tomas, C.R. Eds), pp. 731-834. San Diego: Academic Press. |