Manton, I.; Oates, K. (1980). Polycrater galapagensis gen. et sp. nov., a putative coccolithophorid from the Galapagos Islands with an unusual aragonitic periplast. British Phycological Journal. 15(1): 95-103.

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10.1080/00071618000650111 [view]

Manton, I.; Oates, K.

1980

15(1): 95-103

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An illustrated description is given, drawing on X-ray microanalysis and electron diffraction following transmission and scanning electron microscopy, of a single biflagellate cell from the Galapagos Islands. The periplast is shown to be strongly calcified and with a microcrystalline substructure based on calcium carbonate in the aragonite form instead of the more usual calcite. The highly characteristic small bowl-shaped calcified scales are without known parallel among existing coccoliths although the two equal flagella increase the probability that the organism belongs somewhere in or near this group.

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