Pseliodinium Sournia, 1972
Holotype species: Pseliodinium vaubanii Sournia
Original publication and holotype designation: Sournia, A. (1972). Une période de poussées phytoplanctoniques près de Nosy-Bé (Madagascar) en 1971. Espèces rares ou nouvelles du phytoplancton. Cahiers de l'Office de la Recherche Scientifique et Technique Outre-Mer. Paris. Série Océanographique 10(2): 151-159.
Request PDFDescription: Unarmored free-living dinoflagellates that possess chloroplasts with a yellow-greenish pigmentation. Cell shape globular or slightly compressed, often with outstanding posterior processes or developing single apical and antapical retractile extensions. Cells are solitary, or sometimes forming a two-celled colony. Cells often enclosed in a hyaline membrane
Information contributed by: Gómez (2018). The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2021-12-29 by M.D. Guiry.
Taxonomic status: This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Gender: This genus name is currently treated as neuter.
Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Gómez, F. (2018). Redefinition of Ceratoperidinium and Pseliodinium (Ceratoperidiniaceae, Dinophyceae) including reassignment of Gymnodinium fuscus, Cochlodinium helix and C. pirum to Pseliodinium. CICIMAR Oceánides 33(1): 1-11, 103 figs.
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Descriptions of chrysophyte genera were subsequently published in J. Kristiansen & H.R. Preisig (eds.). 2001. Encyclopedia of Chrysophyte Genera. Bibliotheca Phycologica 110: 1-260.
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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 29 December 2021. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 18 April 2024
