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

Prymnesium parvum N.Carter, 1937

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Prymnesium*	Massart, 1920	accepted genus name

Children

Prymnesium parvum f. patelliferum (J.C.Green, D.J.Hibberd & R.N.Pienaar) A.Larsen, 1999

Literature

original description	Carter N. 1937. New or interesting algae from brackish water. Arch. Protistemk. 90: 1-68.
basis of record	TMAP - Trilateral Monitoring and Assessment Program database
additional source	Tomas, C.R. (Ed.). (1997). Identifying marine phytoplankton. Academic Press: San Diego, CA [etc.] (USA). ISBN 0-12-693018-X. XV, 858 pp.
additional source	Kaartvedt S., Johnsen T.M., Aksnes D.L & Lie U. 1991. Occurrence of the toxic phytoflagellate Prymnesium parvum and associated fish mortality in a Norwegian fjord system. Can. J. Fish. Aquat Sci. 48: 2316-2323.
additional source	Moestrup Ø. 1994. Economic aspects: 'blooms', nuisance species, and toxins. In: The Haptophyte Algae (Ed. by J.C. Green & B.S.C. Leadbeater), pp. 265-285. Clarendon Press, Oxford.
additional source	Moestrup, Ø., Akselman, R., Cronberg, G., Elbraechter, M., Fraga, S., Halim, Y., Hansen, G., Hoppenrath, M., Larsen, J., Lundholm, N., Nguyen, L. N., Zingone, A. (Eds) (2009 onwards). IOC-UNESCO Taxonomic Reference List of Harmful Micro Algae.
additional source	Igarashi T., Satake M. & Yasumoto T. 1999. Structures and partial stereochemical assignments for prymnesin-1 and prymnesin-2: potent hemolytic and ichthyotoxic glycosides isolated from the red tide alga Prymnesium parvum. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 121: 8499-8511.
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	Campbell, P.H. (1973). Studies on brackish water phytoplankton. UNC.SG.73.07. pp. 1-406. Chapel Hill: Sea Grant Publications, University of North Carolina.
ecology source	Tillmann, U. (1998). Phagotrophy by a plastidic haptophyte, Prymnesium patelliferum. Aquatic Microbial Ecology. 14: 155-160.
ecology source	Leles, S. G.; Mitra, A.; Flynn, K. J.; Tillmann, U.; Stoecker, D.; Jeong, H. J.; Burkholder, J.; Hansen, P. J.; Caron, D. A.; Glibert, P. M.; Hallegraeff, G.; Raven, J. A.; Sanders, R. W.; Zubkov, M. (2019). Sampling bias misrepresents the biogeographical significance of constitutive mixotrophs across global oceans. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 28(4): 418-428.
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).
ecology source	Martin-Cereceda, M.; Novarino, G.; Young, J. (2003). Grazing by Prymnesium parvum on small planktonic diatoms. Aquatic Microbial Ecology. 33: 191-199.

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). Prymnesium parvum N.Carter, 1937. 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:160564