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Porphyridium cruentum is a species of red algae in the family Porphyridiophyceae.. The microalga Porphyridium sp. is a potential source for several products like fatty acids, lipids, cell-wall polysaccharides and pigments .
A range of microalgae species are produced in hatcheries and are used in a variety of ways for commercial purposes, including for human nutrition, [19] as biofuel, [20] in the aquaculture of other organisms, [21] in the manufacture of pharmaceuticals and cosmetics, [22] and as biofertiliser. [23]
Dunaliella salina was named by Emanoil C. Teodoresco of Bucharest, Romania after its original discoverer, Michel Felix Dunal, who first scientifically reported sighting the organism in saltern evaporation ponds in Montpellier, France in 1838.
Emiliania huxleyi was named after Thomas Huxley and Cesare Emiliani, who were the first to examine sea-bottom sediment and discover the coccoliths within it.It is believed to have evolved approximately 270,000 years ago from the older genus Gephyrocapsa Kampter [8] [9] and became dominant in planktonic assemblages, and thus in the fossil record, approximately 70,000 years ago.