Pentapharsodinium Indelicato & A.R.Loeblich, 1986

Holotype species: Pentapharsodinium dalei Indelicato & A.R.Loeblich

Publication details: Indelicato & A.R.Loeblich, 1986: 156

Original publication and holotype designation: Indelicato, S.R. & Loeblich, A.R. (1986). A revision of the marine peridinioid genera (Pyrrhophyta) utilizing hypothecal-cingular plate relationships as a taxonomic guideline. Japanese Journal of Phycology 34(3): 153-162, 24 figures, 1 table.

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Description: Emend. Montresor et al. 1993: 229.

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: Li, Z., Mertens, K.N., Gottschling, M., Gu, H.F., Söner, S., Price, A.M., Marret, G., Pospelova, V., Smith, K.F., Carbonell-Moore, C., Nézan, E., Bilien, G. & Shin, H.H. (2020). Taxonomy and molecular phylogenetics of Ensiculiferaceae, fam. nov. (Peridiniales, Dinophyceae), with consideration of their life-history. Protist 171(125759): [1-26], 11 figs, 1 table.

Nomenclatural note
Considered as an illegitimate superfluous name when first introduced by Indelicato & A.R. Loeblich (1986), as the protologue having included the type of Ensiculifera E. Balech ex Elenor R. Cox et H. J. Arnott 1971. However, the type of Ensiculifera Balech, 1967, is Ensiculifera mexicana Balech, which was not included in the circumscription of Ensiculifera Balech, 1967 (which was validated under the ICZN and thus validid under the ICN); thus Pentapharsodinium Indelicato & Loeblich is not superfluous and is therefore legitimate. - (05 June 2012) - M.D. Guiry

Taxonomic note
Emended by Zhun Li, K.N.Mertens, H.Gu & H.H.Shin in Zhun Li (2020: 20). - (02 November 2020) - M.D. Guiry

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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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E.A. Molinari Novoa in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 11 November 2021. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 31 May 2025