Ceratium tripos (O.F.Müller) Nitzsch
Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Protozoa
Subkingdom Biciliata
Infrakingdom Alveolata
Phylum Myzozoa
Class Dinophyceae
Subclass Peridiniphycidae
Order Gonyaulacales
Family Ceratiaceae
Genus Ceratium
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A cosmopolitan species. Dorsal view.. © Robin Raine.
Cosmopolitan species. Ventral view. © Robin Raine.
© Robin Raine.
Publication details
Ceratium tripos (O.F.Müller) Nitzsch 1817: 4
Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Ceratium is Ceratium pleuroceras Schrank.
Status of name
This name is currently regarded as a taxonomic synonym of Neoceratium tripos (O.F.Müller) F.Gomez, D.Moreira & P.Lopez-Garcia
Basionym
Cercaria tripos O.F.Müller
Homotypic Synonym(s)
Cercaria tripos O.F.Müller 1781
General environment
This is a Marine species.
Detailed distribution with sources
(as Ceratium tripos (O.F.Müller) Nitzsch)
Ireland: Galway (Boyd 1973).
Europe: Britain (Parke & Dixon 1976), Croatia (Vilicic et al. 2009), Ireland (Boyd 1973, McDermott & Raine 2006), Romania (Caraus 2002).
Atlantic Islands: Canary Islands (Gil-Rodríguez et al. 2003).
North America: Nova Scotia (Kim, Garbary & McLachlan 2004).
Australia and New Zealand: Victoria (Day et al. 1995).
Antarctic and the subantarctic islands: Antarctica (McMinn & Scott 2005).
Taxonomic notes
According to Dodge (1982: 223) this species is of the sub-genus Orthoceratium.
Source of synonymy
Steidinger, K.A. & Tangen, K. (1996). Dinoflagellates. In: Identifying Marine Phytoplankton. (Tomas, C.R. Eds), pp. 387-584. San Diego: Academic Press.
Key references
Dodge, J.D. (1982). Marine Dinoflagellates of the British Isles. pp. 303. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office.
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.
Kim, K.Y., Garbary D.J. & McLachlan, J.L. (2004). Phytoplankton dynamics in Pomquet Harbour, Nova Scotia: a lagoon in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence. Phycologia 43: 311-328.
Leaw, C.P., Lim, P.T., Ng, B.K., Cheah, M.Y., Ahmad, A. & Usup, G. (2005). Phylogenetic analysis of Alexandrium species and Pyrodinium bahamense (Dinophyceae) based on theca morphology and nuclear ribosomal gene sequence. Phycologia 44: 550-565.
McDermott, G. & Raine, R. (2006). The dinoflagellate genus Ceratium in Irish shelf seas. pp. [viii] + 1-86, 31 figs. Galway: Martin Ryan Institute.
McMinn, A. & Scott, F.J. (2005). Dinoflagellates. In: Antarctic marine protists. (Scott, F.J. & Marchant, H.J. Eds), pp. 202-250. Canberra & Hobart: Australian Biological Resources Study; Australian Antarctic Division.
Parke, M. & Dixon, P.S. (1976). Check-list of British marine algae - third revision. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 56: 527-594.
NCBI Nucleotide Sequences
Created: 11 April 2002 by M.D. Guiry
Verified by: 06 July 2009 by Fernando Gomez
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References
(Please note: only references with the binomials in the title are included. The information is from the Literature database.)
Hasle, G.R. & Nordli, E. (1951). Form variation in Ceratium fusus and tripos populations in cultures and from the sea. Det Norske Vid.-Akad. Oslo. I. Mat.-Naturv. Klasse 1951(4): 1-25.
Pybus, C. (1984). Unusual concentrations of the dinoflagellate Ceratium tripos in Galway Bay. Irish Naturalists' Journal 21: 317-319.
