Rhabdosphaera

Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Chromista
Subregnum: Hacrobia
Phylum: Haptophyta
Classis: Prymnesiophyceae
Ordo: Syracosphaerales
Familia: Rhabdosphaeraceae
Genus: Rhabdosphaera
Species: Rhabdosphaera hispida – Rhabdosphaera spinosa – Rhabdosphaera tignifer – Rhabdosphaera tubulosa – Rhabdosphaera xiphos

Species (in synonymy): Rhabdosphaera clavigera – Rhabdosphaera erinaceus – Rhabdosphaera longistylis – Rhabdosphaera stylifera – Rhabdosphaera tubifer

Name

Rhabdosphaera Haeckel, Syst. Phyl. Protist. Pflanz.: 111. 23 Nov 1894, nom. cons.

• Type species: Rhabdosphaera clavigera G. Murray & V.H. Blackman, Philos. Trans., Ser. B 190: 438, 439. 3 Nov 1898) (designated by Hay & Towe, Eclog. Geol. Helv. 55: 504. 1962)

Synonyms

• Homotypic
• Rhabdolithes O.Schmidt, Sitzungsber. Kaiserl. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Math.-Naturwiss. Cl., Abt. 1, 62: 680. 1–10 Mar 1870, nom. rej.

References

• Doweld, A.B. 2012. (2084) Proposal to conserve the name Rhabdosphaera against Rhabdolithes (Algae: Prymnesiophyta). Taxon 61(5): 1118. DOI: 10.1002/tax.615020 Reference page. 
• Rhabdosphaera in the World Register of Marine Species