Amphidiniopsis Wo?oszy?ska, 1929

Holotype species: Amphidiniopsis kofoidii Wołoszyńska

Original publication and holotype designation: Woloszynska, J. (1929 '1928'). Dinoflagellates der polnischen Ostsee sowie der an Piasnica gelegenen Sumpfe. Archiwum hydrobiologii i rybactwa 3: 153-278.

Description: Epicone much shorter than hypocone. Cells bilaterally or dorsoventrally distinctly compressed. Cells surrounded by distinct amphiesmal plates. The plate formula given for the type species was 3', 7'', 5''', 2''''. Chloroplasts absent.

Information contributed by: Moestrup & Calado (2018). The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2024-01-16 by E.A. Molinari Novoa.

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

Gender: This genus name is currently treated as feminine.

Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Moestrup, Ø. & Calado, A.J. (2018). Süßwasserflora von Mitteleuropa. Dinophyceae. Vol. 6 pp. [i]-xii, [1]-560, 421 figures. Berlin: Springer Spektrum.

Comments: Nutrition phagotrophic, no chloroplasts. Sexual reproduction and cyst formation not known. Marine, sand-dwelling, sometimes washed into the plankton. According to Moestrup & Calado (2018: 284), the "... type species originally described from brackish water in the Baltic, and several marine species are now known. A freshwater species was subsequently found in a lake in Canada in 1997. Molecular analysis of some marine species of Amphidiniopsis (SSU rDNA) has shown phylogenetic relationship between these species and Protoperidinium (Hoppenrath et al. 2012)."

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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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E.A. Molinari Novoa in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 16 January 2024. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 20 April 2024