Plagiodinium M.A.Faust & Balech, 1993

Holotype species: Plagiodinium belizeanum M.A.Faust & Balech

Original publication and holotype designation: Faust, M.A. & Balech, E. (1993). A further SEM study of marine benthic dinoflagellates from a mangrove island, Twin Cays, Belize, including Plagiodinium belizeanum gen. et sp. nov.. Journal of Phycology 29: 826-832, 22 figs.

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Description: Small to medium-sized (30 x 22 x 7 µm), oblong, laterally compressed flagellates with a very small, cap-like, ventrally inclinded episoma. It is oval in apical view with a pointed truncated ventral side and a rounded dorsal side. The sulcus is deeply impressed in the proximal part of the hyposoma but fades away at the last third. The cingulum is circular and deeply impressed. Sulcus and cingulum are without lists. The cell is covered by smooth thecal plates, the plate formula is Po, 5', 0", 5c, 5s, 5"', 1"". The spherical nucleus is posteriorly located, chloroplasts and starch granules are present. Sexual reproduction and cyst formation not known. Marine, benthic, associated with floating detritus, corral rubble and sediments, so far known only from a tropical mangrove island of Belize.

Information contributed by: M. Elbrächter. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2024-06-14 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.

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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. 14 June 2024. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 24 November 2024