Lissodinium Matzenauer, 1933

Holotype species: Lissodinium schilleri Matzenauer

Original publication and holotype designation: Matzenauer, L. (1933). Die Dinoflagellaten des Indischen Ozeans. Botanisches Archiv 35(4): 437-510, 77 figures, 2 plates.

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Description: Small to large (30-135 µm) laterally compressed unicellular biflagellate cells with a cell wall of cellulosic plates with pores. Plate formula: Po, Pt, X, 3', 5", 3c, 5s, 5"', 1"" (after Carbonell-Moore 1993). The cingular plates are very broad like precingular or postcingular plates of other thecate dinoflagellates, without girdle lists, therefore a typical dinoflagellate cingulum is missing. The sulcus is not depressed but may have sulcal lists. An antapical spine may be present. Only known from fixed cells, cell content (chloroplasts ?) not known. Resting cysts and sexual reproduction not observed but inferred from cells with enormous intercalary bands. Habitat: Marine plankton of temperate-warm to tropical waters of the Mediterranean Sea and all oceans. Apparently prefer depths below 100 m.

Information contributed by: M. Elbrächter. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2017-05-23 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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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 23 May 2017. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 23 April 2024