Pentaplacodinium saltonense K.N.Mertens, Carbonell-Moore, Pospelova & Head 2017
Publication Details
Pentaplacodinium saltonense K.N.Mertens, Carbonell-Moore, Pospelova & Head 2017: pls 3 and 4, figs 2A, 3, 4A
Published in: Mertens, K.N., Carbonell-Moore, M.C., Pospelova, V., Head, M.J., Highfield, A., Schroeder, D., Gu, H., Andree, K.B., Fernández, M., Yamaguchi, A., Takano, Y., Matsuoka, K., Nézan, E., Bilien, G., Okolodkov, Y., Koike, K., Hoppenrath, M., Pfaff, M., Pitcher, G., Al-Muftah, A., Rochon, A., Lim, P.T., Leaw, C.P., Lim, Z.F. & Ellegaard, M. (2017 '2018'). Pentaplacodinium saltonense gen. et sp. nov. (Dinophyceae) and its relationship to the cyst-defined genus Operculodinium and yessotoxin-producing Protoceratium reticulatum. Harmful Algae 71: 57-77, 7 text-fig., 7 pl., 1 table.
Request PDFPublication date: 16 December 2017
Type Species
This is the type species (holotype) of the genus Pentaplacodinium.
Status of Name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Type Information
Type locality: The Salton Sea, California, U.S.A. (Station 1 at 33° 30.192'N, 115° 54.869'W); (Mertens & al. 2017: 67) Holotype: Senkenberg Res. Inst. and Nat. Hist. Mus., Center of Excellence for Dinophyte Taxonomy, Germany; SEM stub CEDiT2017H62 (Mertens & al. 2017: 67, pl. 3A)
General Environment
This is a brackish species.
Created: 28 January 2018 by Salvador Valenzuela Miranda.
Last updated: 19 November 2019
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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 19 November 2019. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 28 April 2024
