Atelodinium Chatton, 1920

Holotype species: Atelodinium microsporum Chatton

Original publication and holotype designation: Chatton, É. (1920). Les Péridiniens parasites. Morphologie, reproduction, éthologie. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale 59(F1): 1-475, 161 figures, 18 plates.

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Description: Parasitic organism of plasmodial structure in the coelom of marine Crustacea, Copepoda. Chatton (1920) states that the spores may have some similarities to dinoflagellates, but also resemble bodonids. Detailed ultrastructural studies are lacking. As the copepods also harbor the dinoflagellate parasite Syndinium Chatton, the spores may be confused with this parasite as recently stated by Ianora and others (1990). Parasite with high infection rates reported from the Mediterranean Sea and off Australia.

Information contributed by: M. Elbrächter. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2021-09-13 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.

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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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