Opisthoaulax Calado, 2011

Holotype species: Opisthoaulax vorticella (F.Stein) Calado

Original publication and holotype designation: Calado, A.J. (2011). On the identity of the freshwater dinoflagellate Glenodinium edax, with a discussion on the genera Tyrannodinium and Katodinium, and the description of Opisthoaulax gen. nov. Phycologia 50(6): 641-649.

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Description: Epicone 1.5–2.5 times the length of the hypocone, chloroplasts absent. Cells more or less dorsoventrally compressed. With distinct eyespot in the sulcus. Propagation by formation of 4-8 zoospores in the non-motile stage has been observed in O. vorticella, O. musei and O. fastigata. Cyst, where known, with paracingulum and two axial horns as in Tovellia.

Information contributed by: Moestrup & Calado (2018). The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2021-09-06 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 feminine.

Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Moestrup, Ø. & Calado, A.J. (2018). Süßwasserflora von Mitteleuropa. Dinophyceae. Vol. 6 pp. [i]-xii, [1]-560, 421 figures. Berlin: Springer Spektrum.

Comments: Although currnetly (October 2018) not examined with molecular methods, there is little doubt that Opisthoaulax is a close relative of Tovellia (Moestrup & Calado 2018: 366).

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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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