Sinophysis D.Nie & C.-C.Wang, 1944

Holotype species: Sinophysis microcephala D.Nie & C.-C.Wang

Original publication and holotype designation: Nie, D. & Wang, C.-C. (1944). Dinoflagellata of the Hainan Region. VIII. On Sinophysis microcephalus, a new genus and species of Dinophysidae. Sinensia 15: 145-151.

Description: Medium-sized (45 - 35 µm) laterally compressed flagellate, circular-to-subcircular in lateral view, with a very small epicone, separated by a well-developed cingulum from the large hypocone with a well-developed sulcus which does not reach the antapex. The cellulosic plates are covered by many areolae. The type species has unique surface ornamentations of the epithecal plates. The left one has 2 pairs of channeled and parallel projections, possesses a large apical pore, the position of the pore differs from that of all other species in this order. Nucleus large, located posteriorly in the hypocone. No chloroplasts, nutrition apparently phagotrophic. Sexual reproduction and cyst formation not known. Marine benthic, coasts of tropical and temperate regions. Emend. Chomérat (2016: 460).

Information contributed by: M. Elbrächter. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2017-05-24 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 feminine.

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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