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Emiliania (Prymnesiophyceae)

Emiliania huxleyi
Modified from an electron microscope image at eldrid.cult.bg_Lovelock
The species is named after Thomas Huxley -- "Darwin's Bulldog" who coined the term "agnostic", looked at marine sediments containing coccoliths, and was a comparative anatomist, especially of primates.

Emiliania huxleyi coccoolith
SEM photograph by Jeremy Young, Palaeontology Dept., The Natural History Museum, London posted online

Emiliania huxleyi
Coccoliths have an outer flange absent in the above images

Emiliani huxleyi bloom south of Plymouth England (satellite photograph of 'whiting' reflectance) posted online

Emiliani huxleyi bloom in the Bering Sea north of the Aleutian Islands of Alaska USA September 17th, 2000. Provided by the SeaWiFS Project, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center and ORBIMAGE (satellite photograph of 'whiting' reflectance) posted online

Emiliani huxleyi bloom ('whiting') causing turquoise reflectance close-up photograph.

Chalk cliffs in Jasmund National Park, Germany, up to 161 m high above sea level
Photograph posted online

Chalk cliffs near Dover, England, up to 106 m high above sea level
Photograph posted online

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