Gymnodinium limneticum Wołoszyńska 1936
Publication Details
Gymnodinium limneticum Wołoszyńska 1936: 3, 9, figs 1-5; pl. 1: figs 1-11
Published in: Woloszynska, J. (1935). Die algen der Tatraseen und Tümpel II. Über zwei Gymnodinien aus den Seen "Morskie Oko" und "Czarny Staw pod Rysami". Bulletin international de l'Académie polonaise des sciences et des lettres. Classe des sciences mathématiques et naturelles. Série B: Sciences naturelles 1935(1-3): 1-9, 1 plate, 1 figure.
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The type species (lectotype) of the genus Gymnodinium is Gymnodinium fuscum (Ehrenberg) F.Stein.
Status of Name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Type Information
Type locality: Poland: Tatra National Park; (INA 1996) pl. I: 10 (LT fide Kretschmann et al., Protist 166: 629. 2015): (INA 1996)
General Environment
This is a freshwater species.
Created: 23 October 2002 by Elizabeth Moran.
Last updated: 26 May 2022
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Taxonomic note
Moestrup & Calado (2018: 107): "Gymnodinium limneticum was recently obtained in culture from the Tatra Mountains and studied by Kretschmann et al. (2015). Based on molecular data, G. limneticum and G. palustre were in the article transferred to Spiniferodinium T. Horiguchi & Chihara 1987, a genus of benthic marine dinoflagellates from the Pacific (Kretschmann et al. 2015). As mentioned by Kretschmann et al. (2015), the phylogenetic relationship between the two species and Spiniferodinium is not a close one, based on molecular data, and morphologically the two species, as presently known, share little resemblance to the two species of Spiniferodinium presently described. While there is no doubt that the two species will eventually be removed from Gymnodinium, it is not clear to which genus or genera they will eventually be moved to." - (17 October 2018) - M.D. Guiry
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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 26 May 2022. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 25 May 2025
