Dinamoebidium Pascher, 1916, nom. cons.

Holotype species: Dinamoebidium varians (Pascher) Pascher

Original publication and holotype designation: Pascher, A. (1916). Fusionsplasmodien bei Flagellaten und ihre Bedeutung für die Ableitung der Rhizopoden von den Flagellaten. (Der Studien über die rhozopodiale Entwicklung der Flagellaten IV. Teil.). Archiv für Protistenkunde 37: 31-64.

Description: Cells amoeboid, forming short, blunt pseudopodia. Feeds on flagellates, diatoms, green algae and cyanobacteria. Chloroplasts absent in the type species. Cell division not observed. The cell may transform into thick-walled, bipolar, sausageshaped resting stage (cysts), in which the cell contents divides into 4–8 gymnodinioid zoospores of somewhat irregular shape. The transverse flagellum of zoospores has been clearly observed, but not the longitudinal. Epicone usually slightly larger than the hypocone. The epicone rounded, the hypocone conical. Cingulum incomplete, very variable in appearance. Sulcus also variable in appearance (longitudinal flagellum not observed). The zoospores develop into new amoebae. Feeds on flagellates, diatoms, green algae and cyanobacteria.

Information contributed by: Moestrup & Calado (2018: 59).. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2020-09-03 by M.D. Guiry.

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

Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Moestrup, Ø. & Calado, A.J. (2018). Süßwasserflora von Mitteleuropa. Dinophyceae. Vol. 6 pp. [i]-xii, [1]-560, 421 figures. Berlin: Springer Spektrum.

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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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