Melanodinium Schiller, 1935

Holotype species: Melanodinium nigricans J.Schiller

Currently accepted name for the type species: Gonyaulax nigricans (J.Schiller) Balech

Original publication and holotype designation: Schiller, J. (1935). Dinoflagellatae (Peridineae). In: Dr. L. Rabenhosrst's Kryptogamen-Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz, 2. Aufl. X. Band, 3. Abt. 2 Teil. ( Eds), pp. 1-320. Leipzig: Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft M.B.H..

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Description: Ovoid cells (ca. 150 &m in diam.) divided by a slightly displaced cingulum into 2 more or less equal parts. Cell covered by cellulosic plates of unknown plate pattern. Cell contents unknown. Only known by its author, found in samples from the Red Sea; related by its author to Gonyaulax Diesing. Balech (1988a) transferred it to Gonyaulax, claiming that the cells he studied in the Atlantic Ocean are conspecific with the two cells Schiller investigated. Plate formula after Balech (1988a):Po, 3'. 6", 6c, 7s, 6"', 2"".

Information kindly contributed by M. Elbrächter but may now be outdated.

Taxonomic status: This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Gonyaulax.

Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Kawai, H. & Nakayama, T. (2015). Introduction (Heterokontobionta p.p.), Cryptophyta, Dinophyta, Haptophyta, Heterokontophyta (except Coscinodiscophyceae, Mediophyceae, Fragilariophyceae, Bacillariophyceae, Phaeophyceae, Eustigmatophyceae), Chlorarachniophyta, Euglenophyta. In: Syllabus of plant families. Adolf Engler's Syllabus der Pflanzenfamilien. Ed. 13. Phototrophic eukaryotic Algae. Glaucocystophyta, Cryptophyta, Dinophyta/Dinozoa, Haptophyta, Heterokontophyta/Ochrophyta, Chlorarachnniophyta/Cercozoa, Chlorophyta, Streptophyta p.p. (Frey, W. Eds), pp. 11-64, 103-139. Stuttgart: Borntraeger Science Publishers.

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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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