Acrosphaera

Acrosphaera is a radiolarian genus in the Collosphaeridae.^[1] The genus contains bioluminescent species.^[2][3] It is a genus of colonial radiolarians (as opposed to solitary).^[4]

Acrosphaera
Illustration of Acrosphaera spinosa
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Clade:	Diaphoretickes
Clade:	SAR
Phylum:	Retaria
Class:	Polycystinea
Order:	Nassellaria
Family:	Collozoidae
Subfamily:	Collosphaeridae
Genus:	Acrosphaera
Species
5; see text

Species

The following species are recognized:^[1]

• Acrosphaera arktios (Nigrini, 1970)
• Acrosphaera cyrtodon (Haeckel) Strelkov & Reshetnyak, 1971
• Acrosphaera lappacea (Haeckel) Johnson & Nigrini, 1980
• Acrosphaera murrayana (Haeckel) Hilmers, 1906
• Acrosphaera spinosa Caulet, 1986
• Acrosphaera trepanata

References

1. WoRMS (2010). "Acrosphaera ". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved March 25, 2019.
2. Herring, Peter J. (1987). "Systematic distribution of bioluminescence in living organisms". Journal of Bioluminescence and Chemiluminescence. 1 (3): 147–163. doi:10.1002/bio.1170010303. PMID 3503524.
3. Poupin J.; Cussatlegras A.S.; Geistdoerfer P. (1999). "Plancton Marin Bioluminescent: inventaire documenté des espèces et bilan des formes les plus communes de la mer d'Iroise". Ecole Navale, Laboratoire d'Océanographie: 64 pp, 1–11 planches. Retrieved March 25, 2019. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
4. Latz, Michael I.; Frank, Tamara M.; Case, James F.; Swift, Elijah; Bidigare, Robert R. (1987). "Bioluminescence of colonial radiolaria in the western Sargasso Sea". Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 109 (1): 25–38. doi:10.1016/0022-0981(87)90183-3. ISSN 0022-0981.