Gephyrocapsa oceanica Kamptner 1943

Publication Details
Gephyrocapsa oceanica Kamptner 1943: 45, no fig.

Published in: Kamptner, E. (1943). Zur Revision der Coccolithineen-Spezies Pontosphaera huxleyi Lohm . Anzeiger der Akademie der Wissenschaften 80: 43-49.

Type Species
This is the type species (holotype) of the genus Gephyrocapsa.

Status of Name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.

Type Information
no locality cited [several possibilities...]; (INA 1996)

Origin of Species Name
Adjective A (Latin), pertaining to the ocean (Stearn 1983).

General Environment
This is a marine species.

Created: 25 August 2002 by Olivia Fitzgerald.

Last updated: 13 March 2015

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Taxonomic notes
Heimdal (1997: 795) record this as a synonym of Gephyrocapsa caribbeanica. - (11 May 2006) - G.M. Guiry
See Bendif et al. (2014: 146) for discussion on relationship between Emiliania huxleyi and Gephyrocapsa oceanica. They support the proposal of Reinhard (1972) to transfer E. huxleyi into the genus Gephyrocapsa and note that Kamptner (1956) had indicated a high degree of homology of the structure of coccolith elements between the two species. Results presented in a subsequent publication by Bendif & Young (2014) support the above conclusion. - (21 January 2015) - G.M. Guiry

Distributional note
North Atlantic, Pacific, Mediterranean Sea, Indian Ocean, North Pacific (Bendif et al., 2014: fig. 2). - (01 April 2014) - G.M. Guiry

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