Endodinium Hovasse, 1922

Holotype species: Endodinium chattonii Hovasse

Original publication and holotype designation: Hovasse, R. (1922). Endodinium chattoni (nov. gen. et sp.). Son cycle de multiplication endogène. Variation du nombre de ses chromosomes. Compte Rendu Hebdomadaire des Séances de l’Académie des Sciences. Paris. 87: 845-846.

Description: Endocytic symbiotic dinophyte of Velella velella (Cnidaria) and perhaps of Collozoum inerme (Radiolaria). As symbionts unicells are globular, 12-14µm in diam. and surrounded by a 5-layered amphiesma consisting of a plasmalemma and 4 outer layers. Chloroplasts single and peripheral; chloroplast lamellae formed from pairs of closely apposed thylakoids, not the typical 3 thylakoids per band as in most dinophytes. Pyrenoid and pyrenoid lamellae in non-reduced form. After Taylor (1971), the motile stage resembles Amphidinium Claparède and Lachmann; therefore Endodinium is regarded by some as later synonym of Amphidinium, but Hollande and Carré (1974) suppose that the motile stage may resemble Gymnodinium Stein. Identity of the type species of Endodinium with that of Zooxanthella Brandt, a genus proposed for rejection, is not clear. If so, Endodinium would be a later synonym of Zooxanthella.

Information contributed by: M. Elbrächter. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2018-03-23 by M.D. Guiry.

Taxonomic status: This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.

Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Dodge, J.D. (1982). Marine dinoflagellates of the British Isles. pp. 1-303, 35 figs, pls I-VIII. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office.

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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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