Ceratoperidinium Margalef ex A.R.Loeblich, 1980

Holotype species: Ceratoperidinium margalefii A.R.Loeblich III

Original publication and holotype designation: Loeblich, A.R., III (1980). Dinoflagellate nomenclature. Taxon 29: 321-324.

Description: Unarmoured dinoflagellates possessing chloroplasts. Acrobase making a circular loop around the apex. Retractile appendices (both apical and antapical) present at least during some life-cycle stages. Cingulum descending, displaced 2-3 times its own width, not overhanging. [Emend. Reñé & de Salas (Escobar-Morales & Hernández-Becerril, 2015)].

Information contributed by: Reñe et al. (2013). The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2021-12-29 by M.D. Guiry.

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: Gómez, F. (2018). Redefinition of Ceratoperidinium and Pseliodinium (Ceratoperidiniaceae, Dinophyceae) including reassignment of Gymnodinium fuscus, Cochlodinium helix and C. pirum to Pseliodinium. CICIMAR Oceánides 33(1): 1-11, 103 figs.

Comments: "Ceratoperidinium differed from other members of the Ceratoperidiniaceae in the high dorso-ventral flattening and presence of two antapical retractile extensions." (Gómez 2018).

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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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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 29 December 2021. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 24 December 2024