Florisphaera Okada and Honjo 1973 (haptophyte alga)
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Coccolithophyceae - Ceratolithaceae
Full reference: H. Okada and S. Honjo. 1973. The distribution of oceanic coccolithophorids in the Pacific. Deep-Sea Research 20:355-374
Parent taxon: Ceratolithaceae according to R.W. Jordan et al. 2004
Sister taxa: Amaurolithus, Angulolithina, Ceratolithus, Nicklithus, Orthorhabdus
Subtaxa: none
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Florisphaera in the database
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