Protoperidinium crassipes (Kofoid) Balech

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Chromista
Phylum Dinophyta
Class Dinophyceae
Order Peridiniales
Family Protoperidiniaceae
Genus Protoperidinium

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Publication details
Protoperidinium crassipes (Kofoid) Balech 1974

Type species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Protoperidinium is Protoperidinium pellucidum Bergh ex Loeblich Jr.& Loeblich III.

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

Basionym
Peridinium crassipes Kofoid

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Peridinium crassipes Kofoid 1907

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Peridinium crassipes Kofoid)
Europe: Romania (Caraus 2002).

(as Protoperidinium crassipes (Kofoid) Balech)
Europe: Britain (Parke & Dixon 1976), Ireland (Gribble & Anderson 2006), Romania (Caraus 2012).

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

North America: Florida (Gribble & Anderson 2006, Gribble & Anderson 2007), Mexico (Okolodkov 2005).

South America: Brazil (Odebrecht 2010).

Asia: Japan (Matsuoka et al 2006).

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

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
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.

Gribble, K.E. & Anderson, D.M. (2006). Molecular phylogeny of the heterotrophic dinoflagellates, Photoperidinium, Diplopsalis and Preperidinium (Dinophyceae), inferred from large subunit rDNA. Journal of Phycology 42: 1081-1095.

Gribble, K.E. and Anderson, D.M. (2007). High intraindividual, intraspecific, and interspecific variability in large subunit ribosomal DNA in the heterotrophic dinoflagellates Protoperidinium, Diplopsalis, and Preperidinium (Dinophyceae). Phycologia 46(3): 315-324, 4 figs, 4 tables.

Matsuoka, K., Kawami, H., Fujii, R. & Iwataki, M. (2006). Further examination of the cyst-theca relationship of Protoperidinium thulesense (Peridiniales, Dinophyceae) and the phylogenetic significance of round brown cysts. Phycologia 45(6): 632-641.

Okolodkov, Y.B. (2005). Protoperidinium Bergh (Dinoflagellata) in the southeastern Mexian Pacific Ocean: part I. Botanica Marina 48: 284-296.

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=Protoperidinium&species=crassipes

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=Protoperidinium&Species=crassipes

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 07 May 2002 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 22 November 2007 by Wendy Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 1370 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.)

Yamaguchi, A. & Horiguchi, T. (2008). Culture of the heterotrophic dinoflagellate Protoperidinium crassipes (Dinophyceae) with noncellular food items . Journal of Phycology 44: 1090-1092.

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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 25 May 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:46672