Apicoporus Sparmann, Leander & Hoppenrath, 2008

Holotype species: Apicoporus glaber (Hoppenrath & Okolodkov) Sparmann, Leander & Hoppenrath

Original publication and holotype designation: Sparmann, S.F., Leander, B.S. & Hoppenrath, M. (2008). Comparative morphology and molecular phylogeny of Apicoporus n. gen.: a new genus of marine benthic dinoflagellates formerly classified within Amphidinium. Protist 159: 383-399.

Description: Athecate genus with pellicle. Cells dorsoventrally flattened with small, low and wide, asymmetric epicone with an apical pore covered by a hook-shaped apical protrusion. Descending cingulum not connected to the sulcus at its distal end. Sulcus extends as deep furrow onto the epicone and runs down the hypocone as a shallow furrow, terminating into a semicircular posterior indentation. A ventral flap partly covers the indentation.

Information contributed by: Hoppenrath & al. 2023. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2024-06-11 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 masculine.

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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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 11 June 2024. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 22 November 2024