Mesoporos perforatus (Gran) Lillick

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Chromista
Phylum Dinophyta
Class Dinophyceae
Order Prorocentrales
Family Prorocentraceae
Genus Mesoporos

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Publication details
Mesoporos perforatus (Gran) Lillick 1937: 497

Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Mesoporos is Mesoporos globulus (Schiller) Lillick.

Status of name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.

Basionym
Exuviaella perforata Gran

Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), pierced with holes or pores or sprinkled with translucent dots (Stearn 1973).

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Exuviaella perforata Gran 1915
Porotheca perforata (Gran) P.C.Silva 1960

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Dinoporella perforata (Gran) Halim
Porella perforata Schiller 1928
Porella adriatica Schiller 1928
Porella bisimpressa Schiller 1928
Porella globulus Schiller 1928
Porella asymmetrica Schiller 1933
Mesoporos globulus (Schiller) Lillick 1937
Porotheca globulus (Schiller) P.C.Silva 1960
Porotheca adriatica (Schiller) P.C.Silva 1960

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Mesoporos perforatus (Gran) Lillick)
Europe: Adriatic (Dodge 1982), Britain (Parke & Dixon 1976, Dodge 1982), Croatia (Vilicic et al. 2009), Norway (Dodge 1982).

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

South America: Brazil (Odebrecht 2010).

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

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.

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.

SAG Cultures
SAG Cultures may be viewed at http://sagdb.uni-goettingen.de/showstrains.php?genus=Mesoporos&species=perforatus

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=Mesoporos&Species=perforatus

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 07 May 2002 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 04 July 2005 by M.D. Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 685 times since it was created.

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Citing AlgaeBase
Cite this record as:
Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2013. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org; searched on 24 May 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:46814