Neoceratium pentagonum (Gourret) F.Gomez, D.Moreira & P.Lopez-Garcia

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Chromista
Phylum Dinophyta
Class Dinophyceae
Order Gonyaulacales
Family Ceratiaceae
Genus Neoceratium

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Publication details
Neoceratium pentagonum (Gourret) F.Gomez, D.Moreira & P.Lopez-Garcia 2010: table 2, nom. inval.

Original publication: Gómez, F., Moreira, D. & López-Garcia, P. (2010). Neoceratium gen. nov., a new genus for all marine species currently assigned to Ceratium (Dinophyceae). Protist 161: 35-54.
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Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Neoceratium is Neoceratium furca (Ehrenberg) F.Gomez, D.Moreira & P.Lopez-Garcia.

Status of name
This name is currently regarded as a taxonomic synonym of Ceratium pentagonum Gourret

Basionym
Ceratium pentagonum Gourret

Type information
Type locality: France: Gulf of Marseille (Silva 1996-to date).

Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), five-angled.

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Ceratium subrobustum (Jorgensen) Steemann Nielsen 1934

General environment
This is a Marine species.

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Neoceratium pentagonum (Gourret) F.Gomez, D.Moreira & P.Lopez-Garcia)
Europe: France (Gómez, Moreira & López-Garcia, Anon. 2012).

Source of synonymy
Silva, P.C. (1996-to date). Index Nominum Algarum, University Herbarium, University of California, Berkeley http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/INA.html. Updated continuously. ..

SAG Cultures
SAG Cultures may be viewed at http://sagdb.uni-goettingen.de/showstrains.php?genus=Neoceratium&species=pentagonum

SCCAP Cultures
Cultures from the Scandinavian Culture Collection of Algae at the University of Copenhagen (SCCAP) and Protozoa may be viewed at http://www.sccap.dk/search/algaebase.asp?Genus=Neoceratium&Species=pentagonum

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 06 July 2009 by Fernando Gomez

Verified by: 02 April 2013 by M.D. Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 217 times since it was created.

Linking to this page: http://www.algaebase.org/search/species/detail/?species_id=135219

Citing AlgaeBase
Cite this record as:
M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2013. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org; searched on 24 May 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:94503