Ceratium tripos (O.F.Müller) Nitzsch

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

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cell wall. 05 Feb 2011. John Dolan (dolan@obs-vlfr.fr). © John Dolan (dolan@obs-vlfr.fr).

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Cosmopolitan species. Ventral view. © Robin Raine (Robin.Raine@nuigalway.ie).

A cosmopolitan species. Dorsal view.. © Robin Raine (Robin.Raine@nuigalway.ie).

Publication details
Ceratium tripos (O.F.Müller) Nitzsch 1817: 4

Original publication: Nitzsch, C.L. (1817). Beitrag zur Infusorienkunde oder Naturbeschreibung der Zerkarien und Bazillarien. Neue Schriften der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft zu Halle 3(1): 1-128, 6 pls.

Type species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Ceratium is Ceratium tetraceros Schrank.

Status of name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.

Basionym
Cercaria tripos O.F.Müller

Type information
Type locality: in sea between Denmark and Norway (Silva 1996-to date).

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Cercaria tripos O.F.Müller 1776
Peridinium tripos (O.F.Müller) Ehrenberg 1834
Ceratophorus tripos (O.F.Müller) Diesing 1850
Neoceratium tripos (O.F.Müller) F.Gomez, D.Moreira & P.Lopez-Garcia 2010

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), France (Anon. 2012), Ireland (Boyd 1973, McDermott & Raine 2006), Romania (Caraus 2002), Spain (Pérez, Maidana & Comas 2009).

Atlantic Islands: Canary Islands (Gil-Rodríguez et al. 2003, Anon 2011, Anon 2011).

North America: Nova Scotia (Kim, Garbary & McLachlan 2004).

Australia and New Zealand: New Zealand (Chang et al. 2012), Victoria (Day et al. 1995).

Antarctic and the subantarctic islands: Antarctica/Subantarctic Islands (McMinn & Scott 2005).

(as Neoceratium tripos (O.F.Müller) F.Gomez, D.Moreira & P.Lopez-Garcia)
Europe: France (Anon. 2012), Romania (Caraus 2012).

South America: Brazil (Odebrecht 2010).

Taxonomic notes
According to Dodge (1982: 223) this species is of the sub-genus Orthoceratium.

Nomenclatural notes
Index Nominum Algarum cites Ceratium tripos ('tripus') (O.F. Müller) Nitzsch in Ersch & Gruber 1827: 63. - (18 Oct 2011) - Wendy Guiry

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. 1-303. 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.

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

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=Ceratium&Species=tripos

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 11 April 2002 by M.D. Guiry

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

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 2899 times since it was created.

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.

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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 23 May 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:103295