Ceratium hexacanthum Gourret

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

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The species is distinguished by its heavily reticulated theca.. © Robin Raine (Robin.Raine@nuigalway.ie).

Ceratium hexacanthum Gourret The species is distinguished by its heavily reticulated theca.

Publication details
Ceratium hexacanthum Gourret 1883: 36, pl. 3: figs 49, 49A

Original publication: Gourret, P. (1883). Sur les Péridiniens du Golf de Marseille. Musée dHistoire Naturelle de Marseille, Zoologie, 1, Annales, Mémoire 8: 5-114.

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.

Infrageneric classification
Subgenus Tripoceratium Section Macroceros

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Neoceratium hexacanthum (Gourret) F.Gomez, D.Moreira & P.Lopez-Garcia 2010

General environment
This is a Marine species.

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

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Ceratium hexacanthum Gourret)
Europe: Britain (Parke & Dixon 1976), Croatia (Vilicic et al. 2009), France (Tunin-Ley et al. 2007), Ireland (McDermott & Raine 2006).

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

Australia and New Zealand: New Zealand (Chang et al. 2012).

(as Neoceratium hexacanthum (Gourret) F.Gomez, D.Moreira & P.Lopez-Garcia)
Europe: France (Gómez, Moreira & López-Garcia).

South America: Brazil (Odebrecht 2010).

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. 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.

McDermott, G. & Raine, R. (2006). The dinoflagellate genus Ceratium in Irish shelf seas. pp. [viii] + 1-86, 31 figs. Galway: Martin Ryan Institute.

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.

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=Ceratium&species=hexacanthum

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=hexacanthum

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 07 May 2002 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 01 April 2013 by M.D. Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 1387 times since it was created.

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Citing AlgaeBase
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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 18 May 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:47128