Gyrodinium britannia Kofoid & Swezy
Publication details
Gyrodinium britannia Kofoid & Swezy 1921: 275, 287, fig. DD: 13
Published in: Kofoid, C.A. & Swezy, O. (1921). The free-living unarmored Dinoflagellata. Memoirs of the University of California 5: i-viii, 1-562.
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Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Gyrodinium is Gyrodinium spirale (Bergh) Kofoid & Swezy.
Status of name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Spirodinium spirale var. acutum Lebour 1917
Nomenclatural notes
The original epithet was "britannia", a first declension Latin noun; it is not correctable to "britannicum", an adjective; e.g., Dodge (1982: 96). - (23 Apr 2018) - M.D. Guiry
General environment
This is a marine species.
Type information
Type locality: "Plymouth Sound, England, August" (Kofoid & Swezy 1921: 287).
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Key references
Daugbjerg, N., Hansen, G., Larsen, J. & Moestrup, Ø. (2000). Phylogeny of some of the major genera of dinoflagellates based on ultrastructure and partial LSU rDNA sequence data, including the erection of three new genera of unarmoured dinoflagellates. Phycologia 39: 302-317.
Dodge, J.D. (1982). Marine dinoflagellates of the British Isles. pp. 1-303, 35 figs, pls I-VIII. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office.
Krakhmalny, A.F. [Krachmalny, A.F.] (2011). Dinophyta of Ukraine (illustrated book for identification). Ed by P.M.Tsarenko. pp. [1]-442, 32 figs, 117 pls. Kiev: Alterpres. [in Russian]
Schiller, J. (1933). Dinoflagellatae (Peridineae) in monographischer behandlung.. In: Dr. L. Rabenhosrst's Kryptogamen-Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz, 2. Aufl. 10. Bd 3. Abt. 1 Teil. (Kolkwitz, R. Eds), pp. 433-617. Leipzig: Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft M.B.H.
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