Rappephyceae
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Rappephyceae, or Rappemonads, are a small family of protists first described in 2011, of uncertain phylogenic affinity.[2] It has been discussed as a possible member of a larger clade Haptophyta.[3] This newly identified taxonomic class of phytoplankton are named after a professor from the Hawai’i institute of marine biology, known as Michael Rappé. Rappé discovered these phytoplankton in the Atlantic Ocean and published his findings on their DNA in 1998.[4] Current research has shown that these organisms provide an immense amount of nutritional organic molecules, such as oxygen, for other organisms using biochemical processes like photosynthesis and carbon fixation.[1]
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Clade: | Diaphoretickes |
Phylum: | Haptista |
Subphylum: | Haptophytina |
Class: | Rappephyceae M. Kawachi, R. Kamikawa & T. Nakayama, 2021[1] |
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