Preperidinium Mangin, 1913
Lectotype species: Preperidinium paulsenii (Mangin) Mangin
Currently accepted name for the type species: Preperidinium meunieri (Pavillard) Elbrächter
Original publication and holotype designation: Mangin, L. (1913). Sur la flore planctonique de la rade de Saint-Vaast-La-Hougue 1908-1912. Nouvelles Archives du Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, Série 5 5: 147-241, 1 pl.
Description: Medium-sized (50-90 µm) thecate dinoflagellate of subspherical-to-lenticular shape, characterized by a short apical horn and a large left sulcal list. Cingulum circular, dividing the cell into 2 parts of equal size. Sulcus characterized by a large flagellar pore. Plate formula: Po, X, 3', 1a, 6", 4c, 6(?)s, 5"', 1"". First apical plate 4-sided. Thecal plates smooth, sometimes with broad intercalary bands. Cytoplasm clear, most specimens reddish colored, no chloroplasts. Nucleus spherical-to-ovoid. Nutrition by pallium-feeding on diatoms and other phytoplankton species. Cysts (50-60 µm) dark brown in color, circular to sub-circular in outline with pronounced polar compression and slight dorsiventral compression. Inner body thick-walled (1-2 µm, microgranulate. Marine plankton, worldwide in coastal waters.
Information contributed by: M. Elbrächter. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2020-02-20 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: Elbrächter, M. (1993). Kolkwitziella Lindemann 1919 and Preperidinium Mangin 1913: correct genera names in the Diplopsalis-group (Dinophyceae). Nova Hedwigia 56(1-2): 173-178.
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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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