Gyrodinium fissum (Levander) Kofoid & Swezy 1921
Publication Details
Gyrodinium fissum (Levander) Kofoid & Swezy 1921: 300, pl. 9: fig. 95, DD 8
Published in: Kofoid, C.A. & Swezy, O. (1921). The free-living unarmored Dinoflagellata. Memoirs of the University of California 5: i-viii, 1-562.
Original description: 
Type Species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Gyrodinium is Gyrodinium spirale (Bergh) Kofoid & Swezy.
Status of Name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Levanderina fissa (Levander) Moestrup, Hakanen, Gert Hansen, Daugbjerg & M.Ellegaard.
Source of Synonymy
Moestrup, O., Hakanen, P., Hansen, G., Daugbjerg, N. & Ellegaard, M. (2014). On Levanderina fissa gen. & comb. nov. (Dinophyceae) (syn. Gymnodinium fissum, Gyrodinium instriatum, Gyr. uncatenum), a dinoflagellate with a very unusual sulcus. Phycologia 53(3): 265-292, 77 figs.
Basionym
Gymnodinium fissum Levander
Type Information
Type locality: Stora Lovo, Espoo, Finland; (Moestrup & al. 2014: 266) Notes: Finland: sea near Helsingfors (INA).
General Environment
This is a marine species.
Created: 07 May 2002 by M.D. Guiry.
Last updated: 07 December 2018
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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 07 December 2018. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 22 November 2024
