Ceratium pentagonum Gourret

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

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Publication details
Ceratium pentagonum Gourret 1883: 45, pl. IV: fig. 5

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 Biceratium Section Pentagona

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

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Neoceratium pentagonum (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 pentagonum Gourret)
Europe: Britain (Parke & Dixon 1976), Croatia (Vilicic et al. 2009), Ireland (McDermott & Raine 2006), Romania (Caraus 2002, Caraus 2012), Spain (Pérez, Maidana & Comas 2009).

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

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

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

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

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

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. ..

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.

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.

Steidinger, K.A. & Tangen, K. (1996). Dinoflagellates. In: Identifying Marine Phytoplankton. (Tomas, C.R. Eds), pp. 387-584. San Diego: Academic Press.

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

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 07 May 2002 by M.D. Guiry

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

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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 20 May 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:47112