Microceratium A.Sournia, 1972

Holotype species: Microceratium orstomii A.Sournia

Original publication and holotype designation: Sournia, A. (1972). Quatre nouveaux Dinoflagellés du plancton marin. Phycologia 11(1): 71-74, 8 figs.

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Description: Medium-sized flagellate (48 µm) of triangular shape, very compressed with a thickness of only about 10 _m, with a dome-shaped epicone which is separated by a cingulum from the hypocone with 2 divergent horns. Nucleus very large located in the hypocone; one flagellum reported. Numerous chloroplsts present. Cell covering rigid, no tabulation observed. Vegetative and sexual reproduction or cyst formation not known.

Information contributed by: M. Elbrächter. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2014-09-30 by M.D. Guiry.

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

Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Sournia, A. (1986). Atlas du phytoplancton marin. Volume I: Cyanophycées, Dictyophycées, Dinophycées, Raphidophycées. pp. [1]-219. Paris: Éditions du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique 15, quai Anatole France - 75700 Paris.

Comments: Needs reinvestigation. Marine planktonic, known only from one specimen off Madagascar, Indian Ocean.

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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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