Emiliania (coccolithophore) explained

Emiliania is a global coccolithophorid genus.

The genus name of Emiliania is in honour of Cesare Emiliani (1922–1995), who was an Italian-American scientist, geologist, micropaleontologist, and founder of paleoceanography, developing the timescale of marine isotope stages.^[1]

The genus was circumscribed by Hanspeter Mohler and William Winn Hay in Trans. Gulf Coast Ass. Geol. Soc. Vol.17 on page 447 in 1967.

It formerly included the species Emiliania huxleyi,^[2] now called Gephyrocapsa huxleyi.^[3]

Notes and References

1. Book: Burkhardt, Lotte . Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen . Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names . Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin . 2022 . 978-3-946292-41-8 . pdf . German . Berlin . 10.3372/epolist2022 . January 27, 2022.
2. Satoh M, Iwamoto K, Suzuki I, Shiraiwa Y . Cold stress stimulates intracellular calcification by the coccolithophore, Emiliania huxleyi (Haptophyceae) under phosphate-deficient conditions . Mar. Biotechnol. . 11 . 3 . 327–33 . 2009 . 18830665 . 10.1007/s10126-008-9147-0. 18014503 . 2241/104412 . free.
3. Bendif EM, Probert I, Archontikis OA, Young JR, Beaufort L, Rickaby RE, Filatov D. Rapid diversification underlying the global dominance of a cosmopolitan phytoplankton. ISME J. 2023-02-06. 17. 4. 630–640. 10.1038/s41396-023-01365-5. 36747097. 10030636.