Gonyaulax verior Sournia 1973
Publication Details
Gonyaulax verior Sournia 1973: 34
Published in: Sournia, A. (1973). Catalogue des espèces et taxons infraspécifiques de Dinoflagellés marins actuels. I. Dinoflagelles libres. Beihefte Nova Hedwigia 48: 1-92.
Type Species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Gonyaulax is Gonyaulax spinifera (Claparède & Lachmann) Diesing.
Status of Name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Sourniaea diacantha (Meunier) H.Gu., K.N.Mertens, Zhun Li & H.H.Shin.
Source of Synonymy
Zhang, W., Li, Z., Mertens, K.N., Derrien, A., Pospelova, V., Carbonell-Moore, M.C., Bagheri, S., Matsuoka, K., Shin, H.H. & Gu, H. (2020). Reclassification of Gonyaulax verior (Gonyaulacales, Dinophyceae) as Sourniaea diacantha gen. et comb. nov. Phycologia 59: [1-15] 246-260.
Type Information
Belgium: near Nieuport (Amylax diacantha Meunier);
General Environment
This is a marine species.
Created: 07 May 2002 by M.D. Guiry.
Last updated: 21 May 2020
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Nomenclatural note
Amylax diacantha Meurnier 1919: 74 but priority for G. diacantha Athanassopontos 1931: 8 (Index Nominum Algarum). According to Zonneveld & Dale (1994: 361), the authority for G. verior is (Meunier) Sournia. - (04 July 2011) - G.M. Guiry
Distributional note
European Atlantic to the Caspian Sea and Pacific Ocean (Zhang et al., 2020). - (22 May 2020) - G.M. Guiry
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G.M. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 21 May 2020. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 10 June 2025
