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Ophiaster hydroideus

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Ophiaster hydroideus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Diaphoretickes
Phylum: Haptista
Subphylum: Haptophytina
Class: Prymnesiophyceae
Order: Syracosphaerales
Family: Syracosphaeraceae
Genus: Ophiaster
Species:
O. hydroideus
Binomial name
Ophiaster hydroideus
(Lohman) Lohmann[1]
Synonyms[1]

Meringosphaera hydroidea Lohmann

Ophiaster hydroideus is a marine unicellular species of coccolithophore, an algae, in the family Syracosphaeraceae.[1][2] It was first described by Hans Lohmann in 1902 as Meringosphaera hydroidea, however, this was changed to Ophiaster hydroideus in 1913. It has modified coccoliths that it can fold in or extend like arms: "These 'arms' are not actively deployed by the cell, but may function as a defensive barrier to discourage predators such as copepods".[3]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Ophiaster hydroideus (Lohmann) Lohmann, 1913". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2020-09-26.
  2. ^ "Ophiaster hydroideus". www.smhi.se. Retrieved 2020-09-26.
  3. ^ Sardet, Christian (2015). Plankton, Wonders of the Drifting World. France: The University of Chicago Press. p. 51. ISBN 978-0-226-18871-3.