Boreadinium J.D.Dodge & H.B.Hermes, 1981

Holotype species: Boreadinium pisiforme J.D.Dodge & Hermes

Original publication and holotype designation: Dodge, J.D. & Hermes, H.B. (1981). A revision of the Diplopsalis group of dinoflagellates (Dinophyceae) based on material from the British Isles. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 83: 15-26.

Description: Medium-sized (about 40 µm) thecate dinoflagellate, slightly compressed. Cingulum median, circular; sulcus on the hypocone with prominent list at the left side. The first apical plate is five-sided, the apical intercalary plate is very large. Plate formula: Po, X, 4', 1a, 7", 4c, 5(?)s, 5"', 1"". Cell content unknown, presumably heterotrophic without chloroplasts. Cysts and sexual reproduction unknown. Marine plankton, rarely recorded from the shelf region, North Sea, Japanese waters?

Information contributed by: M. Elbrächter. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2020-02-20 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.

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.

Comments: Included in the Kolkwitziellaceae by some authors.

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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. 20 February 2020. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 24 April 2024