Abedinium Loeblich & A.R.Loeblich, 1966, nom. cons.

Holotype species: Abedinium dasypus (Cachon & Cachon-Enjumet) Loeblich Jr & Loeblich III

Original publication and holotype designation: Loeblich, A.R. & Loeblich, A.R. (1966). Index to the genera, subgenera, and sections of the Pyrrhophyta. Studies in Tropical Oceanography 3: [i]-x, 1-94, 1 plate.

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Description: Large (250 &m long, 80 &m wide) but only about 20 &m thick, leaf-shaped flagellate with its interior face slightly convex, bears at the anterior part a long stalk that represents a tentacle of about 60 &m length. At the other extremity, a long trailing flagellum, about 80 &m long, serves to regulate the forward movement. It may also creep on a substrate. If disturbed it is able to roll up immediately, its stalk folded from the base against its superior face like an armadillo. Involved are non-actin filaments. No chloroplasts, with spherical, prominent dinokaryon,and with large trichocysts and mucocysts. Marine, planktonic, may be also benthic, restricted to coastal zone; rare, so far found only in the Mediterranean Sea by the authors. As Leptophyllus is preoccupied in the zoological (but not in the botanical) nomenclature, it has been replaced by Abedinium; Leptophyllus is now rejected name but Abedinium a nom. cons., (Greuter and others 1994).

Information contributed by: M. Elbrächter. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2021-11-11 by E.A. Molinari Novoa.

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

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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. 11 November 2021. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 18 April 2024