Higher Classification: > Kingdom Chromista > Subkingdom Hacrobia > Phylum Haptophyta > Subphylum Haptophytina > Class Coccolithophyceae > Subclass Prymnesiophycidae > Order Prymnesiales > Family Chrysochromulinaceae > Genus Chrysochromulina

Chrysochromulina acantha Leadbeater & Manton, 1971

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Chrysochromulina*	Lackey, 1939	accepted genus name
*Chrysocampanula*	Fournier, 1971	synonym

Literature

original description	Leadbeater, B. S.; Manton, I. (1971). Fine structure and light microscopy of a new species of Chrysochromulina (C. acantha). Archiv für Mikrobiologie, 78: 58-69.
basis of record	Brandt, S. (2001). Haptophytes, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 76
additional source	Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2025). AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. searched on YYYY-MM-DD.
additional source	Scott, F.J.; Marchant, H.J. (Ed.). (2005). Antarctic marine protists. Australian Biological Resources Study: Canberra. ISBN 0-642-56835-9. 563 pp.
ecology source	Jones, H. L.; Leadbeater, B. S. C.; Green, J. C. (1993). Mixotrophy in marine species of Chrysochromulina (Prymnesiophyceae): ingestion and digestion of a small green flagellate. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 73(2), 283-296.
ecology source	Faure, E.; Not, F.; Benoiston, A.-S.; Labadie, K.; Bittner, L.; Ayata, S.-D. (2019). Mixotrophic protists display contrasted biogeographies in the global ocean. The ISME Journal. 13(4): 1072-1083.
ecology source	Mitra, A.; Caron, D. A.; Faure, E.; Flynn, K. J.; Leles, S. G.; Hansen, P. J.; McManus, G. B.; Not, F.; Do Rosario Gomes, H.; Santoferrara, L. F.; Stoecker, D. K.; Tillmann, U. (2023). The Mixoplankton Database (MDB): Diversity of photo‐phago‐trophic plankton in form, function, and distribution across the global ocean. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology. 70(4).

Genbank

Taxonomy

Published in AlgaeBase

Citation

Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2025). AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway (taxonomic information republished from AlgaeBase with permission of M.D. Guiry). Chrysochromulina acantha Leadbeater & Manton, 1971. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:115108