Ericiolus pusillus (H.A. Thomsen & J.B. Østergaard) Archontikis & Jer.R. Young 2023

Archontikis, Odysseas A., Millán, Josué G., Winter, Amos & Young, Jeremy R., 2023, Taxonomic re-evaluation of Ericiolus and Mercedesia (Prymnesiophyceae) and description of three new species, Phycologia 62 (2), pp. 179-193 : 188

Ericiolus pusillus (H.A. Thomsen & J.B. Østergaard) Archontikis & Jer.R. Young comb. nov.

BASIONYM: Mercedesia pusilla H.A. Thomsen & J.B. Østergaard in Thomsen & Østergaard 2015, Acta Protozoologica 54, p. 159, figs 11–13.

Ecology

Very little information can currently be extracted in relation to the ecology of Ericiolus bendifii sp. nov., E. sheldoniae sp. nov., E. mattioliae sp. nov. and Ericiolus cf. bendifii , other than that our specimens have been obtained from the LPZ layers (within or close to the DCM) of subtropical to tropical waters. Our records, however, expand the findings of Thomsen et al. (1995) and Thomsen & Østergaard (2015), who noted occurrences of star-like nannolith-bearing species in the surface waters (10–40 m) of high latitude environments, namely the Arctic, Danish, Antarctic and Weddell Seas.