Peridinium Ehrenberg, 1830: 38

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Chromista
Phylum Dinophyta
Class Dinophyceae
Order Peridiniales
Family Peridiniaceae

Holotype species: Peridinium cinctum (O.F.Müller) Ehrenberg

Original publication and holotype designation:Ehrenberg, C.G. (1830). Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Organisation der Infusorien und ihrer geographischen Verbreitung, besonders in Sibirien. Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1830: 1-88, pls I-VIII.
Download PDF

Taxonomic status: currently recognized as a distinct genus.

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Numbers of names and species: There are 987 species (and infraspecific) names in the database at present, of which 58 have been flagged as currently accepted taxonomically.

Names: ('C' indicates a name that is currently accepted taxonomically; 'S' a homotypic or heterotypic synonym; 'U' indicates a name of uncertain taxonomic status, but which has been subjected to some verification nomenclaturally; 'P' indicates a preliminary AlgaeBase entry that has not been subjected to any kind of verification. For more information on a species click on it to activate a link to the Species database):

References
Lefèvre, M. (1932). Monographie des espèces d'eau douce du genre Peridinium.. Arch. Bot. Mem. Caen 2((5)): 1-208.

Kiselev, I.A. & Cvetkov, N.W. (1935). Zur Morphologie und Ökologie von Peridinium baicalense n. sp.. Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 53((B)): 518-524.

Schiller, J. (1937). Dinoflagellatae (Peridineae). In: Kryptogamen-Flora...2. Aufl. X. Band, 3. Abt. 2. Teil. (Rabenhorst, L. Eds), pp. 321-590 + i-vii. Leipzig:

Huber-Pestalozzi, G. (1950). Das Phytoplankton des Süsswassers. Systematik und Biologie. 3. Teil. Cryptophyceen. Chloromonadinen. Peridineen. In: Die Binnengewässer...Band 16, 3. Teil. (Thienemann, A. Eds), pp. ix + 310. Stuttgart: Schweizerbart.

Bourrelly, P. (1968). Notes sur les Péridiniens d'eau douce. Protistologica 4: 5-14.

Bourrelly, P. (1970). Les algues d'eau douce. Initiation à la systématique. Tome III: Les Algues bleues et rouges. Les Eugléniens, Peridiniens et Cryptomonadines. pp. 1-512, 5 figs, 138 plates. Paris: Boubée & Cie.

Matvienko, A.M. & Litvinenko, R.M. (1977). Pirofitovi vodorosti - Pyrrophyta. In: Vyznachnyk prisnovodnykh vodorostej Ukrajns'koj RSR. [Vyp.] III. Chastyna 2. ( Eds), pp. 386. Kyjv: Naukova Dumka.

Carty, S. (2003). Dinoflagellates. In: Freshwater Algae of North America, Ecology and Classification. (Wehr, J.D. & Sheath, R.G. Eds), pp. 685-714. San Diego: Academic Press.

Popovsky, J. & Pfiester, L.A. (1990). Süßwasserflora von Mitteleuropa. Vol. 6. Dinophyceae (Dinoflagellida). pp. 272. Jena & Stuttgart: Gustav Fischer.

Ki, J.-S., Park, M.-H. & Han, M.-S. (2011). Discriminative power of nuclear rDNA sequences for the DNA taxonomy of the dinoflagellate genus Peridinium (Dinophyceae). Journal of Phycology 47(2): 426-435.

Daugbjerg, N., Hansen, G., Larsen, J. & Moestrup, Ø. (2000). Phylogeny of some of the major genera of dinoflagellates based on ultrastructure and partial LSU rDNA sequence data, including the erection of three new genera of unarmoured dinoflagellates. Phycologia 39: 302-317.

Linking to this page: http://www.algaebase.org/search/genus/detail/?genus_id=43636

Citing AlgaeBase
Cite this record as:
M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2013. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org; searched on 23 May 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:6786