Ceratium ranipes Cleve

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

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

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

SEM. 01 Jan 0001. J.R. Dolan. © J.R. Dolan. From: Pizay, M.-D., Lemeé, R., Simon, N., Cras, A.-L., Laugier, J.-P., Dolan, J.R. 2009. Night and day morphologies in a planktonic dinoflagellate. Protist, 160:565-575..

Ceratium ranipes Cleve SEM

Publication details
Ceratium ranipes Cleve 1900: 13, pl. VIII: fig. 1

Original publication: Cleve, P.T. (1900). Notes on some Atlantic plankton organisms. Kongl. Svenska Vetenskaps Academiens Handlingar 34(1): 1-22, 8 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.

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Ceratium palmatum var. ranipes (Cleve) Jørgensen 1911
Neoceratium ranipes (Cleve) F.Gomez, D.Moreira & P.Lopez-Garcia 2010

General environment
This is a marine species.

Type information
Type locality: Atlantic [Ceratium tripos var. digitatum Lemmermann 1899] (Silva 1996-to date).

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Ceratium ranipes Cleve)
Europe: France (Tunin-Ley et al. 2007).

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

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

(as Neoceratium ranipes (Cleve) F.Gomez, D.Moreira & P.Lopez-Garcia)
South America: Brazil (Odebrecht 2010).

Nomenclatural notes
New name for Ceratium tripos var. digitatum Lemmermann 1899 (priority for Ceratium digitatum F. Schütt 1895) (Index Nominum Algarum). - (13 Oct 2011) - Wendy Guiry

Key references
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.

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

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=ranipes

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=ranipes

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 07 May 2002 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 22 May 2013 by M.D. Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 1240 times since it was created.

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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 20 June 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:102949