Pyrocystis fusiformis C.W.Thomson

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Chromista
Phylum Dinophyta
Class Dinophyceae
Order Pyrocystales
Family Pyrocystaceae
Genus Pyrocystis

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Publication details
Pyrocystis fusiformis C.W.Thomson in Murray & Whitting 1876: pl. 21 pro parte

Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Pyrocystis is Pyrocystis noctiluca Murray ex Haeckel.

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

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Dissodinium fusiforme (Wyville-Thomson ex Murray) Matzenauer
Murracystis fusiformis (C.W.Thomson) Haeckel 1890

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Pyrocystis fusiformis C.W.Thomson)
Atlantic Islands: Canary Islands (Gil-Rodríguez et al. 2003, Anon 2011).

South America: Brazil (Odebrecht 2010).

Source of synonymy
Tomas, C.R., Eds (1996). Identifying marine diatoms and dinoflagellates. pp. 1-858. San Diego: Academic Press Inc.

Key references
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=Pyrocystis&species=fusiformis

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=Pyrocystis&Species=fusiformis

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 29 May 2003 by Mairead Murphy

Verified by: 16 April 2013 by M.D. Guiry

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

Meunier, V. & Swift, E. (1977). Observations on thecate swarmers of Pyrocystis species in laboratory culture: Pyrocystis fusiformis Wyville Thomson ex Murray and Pyrocystis pseudonoctiluca Wyville Thomson ex Murray (Dinococcales). Phycologia 16: 359-365, 14 figs.
Pincemin, J.M. & Gayol, P. (1978). Naked and thecate swarmers in clonal Pyrocystis fusiformis: systematic and physiology problems. Archiv für Protistenkunde 120: 401-408.
Sweeney, B.M. (1982). Microsources of bioluminescence in Pyrocystis fusiformis (Pyrrophyta). Journal of Phycology 18: 412-416, 9 figs.
Swift, E. & Durbin, E.G. (1971). Similarities in the asexual reproduction of the oceanic dinoflagellates, Pyrocystis fusiformis, Pyrocystis lunula, and Pyrocystis noctiluca. Journal of Phycology 7: 89-96.
Swift, E. & Meunier, V. (1976). Effects of light intensity on division rate, stimulable bioluminescence and cell size of the oceanic dinoflagellates Dissodinium lunula, Pyrocystis fusiformis and P. noctiluca. Journal of Phycology 12: 14-22, 5 figs, 5 tables.

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Citing AlgaeBase
Cite this record as:
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 24 May 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:41552