Lepidodinium Watanabe, Suda, I.Inouye, Sawaguchi & Chihara, 1990

Holotype species: Lepidodinium viride M.Watanabe, S.Suda, Inouye, T.Sawaguchi & Chihara

Original publication and holotype designation: Watanabe, M.M., Suda, S., Inouye, I., Sawaguchi, T. & Chihara, M. (1990). Lepidodinium viride gen. et sp. nov. (Gymnodiniales, Dinophyta), a green dinoflagellate with a chlorophyll A-containing and B-containing endosymbiont. Journal of Phycology 26: 741-751.

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Description: Medium-sized (22-52 _m) biflagellated subglobular, dorsiventral slightly flattened cell, with a median cingulum which is slightly displaced. Sulcus with apical groove, narrow at the epicone, broad at the hypocone, reaching the antapex. Protoplast covered by more or less quadratic, hand basket-shaped scales, produced in the Golgi apparatus of submicroscopical size ca. 250 nm long and ca. 270 nm high. At the junction of the cingulum and the sulcus a protoplasmic projection of unique ultrastructure is situated. The cell contains an endosymbiont of the prasinophyte lineage based on its chloroplast ultrastructure and pigmentation. In contrast to normal dinoflagellates, this organism contains no peridinin and chlorophyll c, but chlorophyll b and violaxanthin, zeaxanthin, _-carotene, etc. The endosymbiont is separated from the host by 2 membranes, but it does not contain a nucleus or mitochondria. Reproduction not reported. Marine plankton, in coastal waters off Japan.

Information contributed by: M. Elbrächter. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2023-12-11 by E.A. Molinari Novoa.

Taxonomic status: This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.

Gender: This genus name is currently treated as neuter.

Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Kawai, H. & Nakayama, T. (2015). Introduction (Heterokontobionta p.p.), Cryptophyta, Dinophyta, Haptophyta, Heterokontophyta (except Coscinodiscophyceae, Mediophyceae, Fragilariophyceae, Bacillariophyceae, Phaeophyceae, Eustigmatophyceae), Chlorarachniophyta, Euglenophyta. In: Syllabus of plant families. Adolf Engler's Syllabus der Pflanzenfamilien. Ed. 13. Phototrophic eukaryotic Algae. Glaucocystophyta, Cryptophyta, Dinophyta/Dinozoa, Haptophyta, Heterokontophyta/Ochrophyta, Chlorarachnniophyta/Cercozoa, Chlorophyta, Streptophyta p.p. (Frey, W. Eds), pp. 11-64, 103-139. Stuttgart: Borntraeger Science Publishers.

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Descriptions of chrysophyte genera were subsequently published in J. Kristiansen & H.R. Preisig (eds.). 2001. Encyclopedia of Chrysophyte Genera. Bibliotheca Phycologica 110: 1-260.

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E.A. Molinari Novoa in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 11 December 2023. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 20 May 2024