Protoceratium reticulatum (Claparède & Lachmann) Butschli

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Chromista
Phylum Dinophyta
Class Dinophyceae
Order Gonyaulacales
Family Protoceratiaceae
Genus Protoceratium

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Live cell. The girdle can be found offset by about one girdle width in this species. Note the rugose surface.. © Robin Raine (Robin.Raine@nuigalway.ie).

Publication details
Protoceratium reticulatum (Claparède & Lachmann) Butschli 1885: 1007, pl. 52, fig. 2

Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Protoceratium is Protoceratium aceros Bergh.

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

Basionym
Peridinium reticulatum Claparède & Lachmann

Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), reticulate, netted, marked with a network (Stearn 1973).

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Peridinium reticulatum Claparède & Lachmann 1859

General environment
This is a marine species.

Usage notes
Harmful species

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Protoceratium reticulatum (Claparède & Lachmann) Butschli)
Europe: Sweden (Lundholm et al. 2011 ).

South America: Brazil (Odebrecht 2010), Chile (Alves-de-Souza, Varela, Navarrete, Fernández & Leal 2008).

Africa: Mauritania (Zonneveld et al. 2010).

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

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
Bérard-Therriault, L., Poulin, M. & Bossé, L. (1999). Guide d'identification du phytoplancton marin de l'estuaire et du Golfe du Saint-Laurent incluant également certains protozoaires. Publication Spéciale Canadienne des Sciences Halieutiques et Aquatiques 128: 1-387.

Gómez, F. (2008). Phytoplankton invasions: comments on the validity of categorizing the non-indigenous dinoflagellates and diatoms in European Seas. Marine Pollution Bulletin 56: 620-628.

Hallegraeff, G.M., Anderson, D.M. & Cembella, A.D., Eds (2003). Manual on harmful marine microalgae. Paris: UNESCO.

Leaw, C.P., Lim, P.T., Ng, B.K., Cheah, M.Y., Ahmad, A. & Usup, G. (2005). Phylogenetic analysis of Alexandrium species and Pyrodinium bahamense (Dinophyceae) based on theca morphology and nuclear ribosomal gene sequence. Phycologia 44: 550-565.

Liu, L. & Hastings, J.W. (2006). Novel and rapidly diverging intergenic sequences between tandem repeats of the luciferase genes in seven dinoflagellate species. Journal of Phycology 42: 96-103.

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

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=Protoceratium&Species=reticulatum

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 07 May 2002 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 21 December 2012 by M.D. Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 1776 times since it was created.

References
(Please note: only references with the binomials in the title are included. The information is from the Literature database.)

Hernandez-Becerril, D.U., Rodríguez-Palacio, C. & Lozano-Ramírez, C. (2010). Morphology of two bloom-forming or potentially toxic marine dinoflagellates from the Mexican Pacific, Heterocapsa pygmaea and Protoceratium reticulatum (Dinophyceae). Cryptogamie Algologie 31: 245-254.
Ratti, S., Giordano, M & Morse, D. (2007). CO2-concentrating mechanisms of the potentially toxic dinoflagellate Protoceratium reticulatum (Dinophyceae, Gonyaulacales). Journal of Phycology 43: 693-701.

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Citing AlgaeBase
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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 25 May 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:105937