Plectodinium Biecheler, 1934

Holotype species: Plectodinium nucleovolvatum Biecheler

Original publication and holotype designation: Biecheler, B. (1934). Sur une Dinoflagellé a capsule périnucleaire, Plectodinium, n. gen. nucleovolvatum, n. sp. et sur les relations des Péridiniens avec les Radiolaires. Compte Rendu Hebdomadaire des Séances de l’Académie des Sciences. Paris. 198(4): 404-406.

Description: Medium-sized ( m) free-living unicellular dinoflagellate with well-developed cingulum and sulcus. The large dinokaryon is enclosed in a perinuclear capsule. In addition, the cytoplasm contains 2 "internal spines" forming a V-like structure. The organization of this organism has been reinterpreted by Taylor (1980), transferring it to the genus Cochlodinium. The type species requires reinvestigation from material of the type locality. Marine planktonic, Mediterranean Sea.

Information contributed by: M. Elbrächter. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2020-10-09 by M.D. Guiry.

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

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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