Rhabdosphaera clavigera
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| Rhabdosphaera clavigera | |
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| Electron microscopy image of Rhabdosphaera clavigera | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Clade: | Diaphoretickes |
| Phylum: | Haptista |
| Subphylum: | Haptophytina |
| Class: | Prymnesiophyceae |
| Order: | Syracosphaerales |
| Family: | Rhabdosphaeraceae |
| Genus: | Rhabdosphaera |
| Species: | R. clavigera |
| Binomial name | |
| Rhabdosphaera clavigera Murray and Blackman, 1898[1] | |
Rhabdosphaera clavigera is a marine, unicellular species of coccolithophore in the genus Rhabdosphaera. The species name references the Latin word claviger (one who carries a club) to describe the pentameral (five-point) spines emerging from the calcium carbonate coccosphere.[1][2] The stylifera variant has shorter, thinner, and symmetrical spines, as compared to the type species.[3]
