WoRMS taxon details
Coccolithus E.H.L.Schwarz, 1894
Coccolithophora Lohmann, 1902 · unaccepted
Coccosphaera Wallich, 1877 · unaccepted (synonym)
Cyathosphaera Haeckel, 1894 · unaccepted
- Species Coccolithus miopelagicus Bukry, 1971
- Species Coccolithus oceanicus E.H.L.Schwarz, 1894
- Species Coccolithus coronatus S.Gartner, 1968 accepted as Watznaueria barnesiae (M.Black) Perch-Nielsen, 1968 †
- Species Coccolithus huxleyi (Lohmann) Kamptner, 1943 accepted as Gephyrocapsa huxleyi (Lohmann) P.Reinhardt, 1972
- Species Coccolithus sessilis (Lohmann) Lecal-Schlauder, 1949 accepted as Reticulofenestra sessilis (Lohmann) R.W.Jordan & Jer.R.Young, 1990
- Species Coccolithus wallichii (Lohmann) Schiller accepted as Helicosphaera wallichii (Lohmann) Okada & McIntyre, 1977
- Species Coccolithus braarudii (K.R.Gaarder) K.Baumann, M.Cachao, J.R.Young & M.Geisen, 2003 (uncertain)
- Species Coccolithus pelagicus (Wallich) J.Schiller, 1930 (uncertain)
marine
Schwarz, E. H. L. (1894). Coccoliths. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> Series 6 14: 341-346. [details]
LSID urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:6003
LSID urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:6003 [details]
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). Coccolithus E.H.L.Schwarz, 1894. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=178598 on 2025-03-21
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Nomenclature
original description
Schwarz, E. H. L. (1894). Coccoliths. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> Series 6 14: 341-346. [details]
basis of record Heimdal, B.R. (1997). Modern Coccolithophorids. <em>In: C.R. Tomas (ed.). Identifying Marine Phytoplankton.</em> pp. 731-831. Academic Press: San Diego, CA [etc.] (USA). ISBN 0-12-693018-X. XV, 858 pp. (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-012693018-4/50008-2 [details]
basis of record Heimdal, B.R. (1997). Modern Coccolithophorids. <em>In: C.R. Tomas (ed.). Identifying Marine Phytoplankton.</em> pp. 731-831. Academic Press: San Diego, CA [etc.] (USA). ISBN 0-12-693018-X. XV, 858 pp. (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-012693018-4/50008-2 [details]
Other
additional source
Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2025). AlgaeBase. <em>World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway.</em> searched on YYYY-MM-DD., available online at http://www.algaebase.org [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
LSID urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:6003 [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese | コッコリトゥス属 | [details] |
Published in AlgaeBase 
Published in AlgaeBase (from synonym Coccolithophora Lohmann, 1902)
Published in AlgaeBase (from synonym Coccosphaera Wallich, 1877)
Published in AlgaeBase (from synonym Cyathosphaera Haeckel, 1894)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Coccolithus)
To Genbank
To ITIS
Published in AlgaeBase
(from synonym Coccolithophora Lohmann, 1902)Published in AlgaeBase
(from synonym Coccosphaera Wallich, 1877)Published in AlgaeBase
(from synonym Cyathosphaera Haeckel, 1894)To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Coccolithus)
To Genbank
To ITIS
Unreviewed
Image from synonym
