Gonyaulax longispina Lebour 1925

Publication Details
Gonyaulax longispina Lebour 1925: 97, pl. 14: fig. 4

Published in: Lebour, M.V. (1925). The dinoflagellates of northern seas. pp. [i]-vii, [1]-250. Plymouth: Published by the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.

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Type Species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Gonyaulax is Gonyaulax spinifera (Claparède & Lachmann) Diesing.

Status of Name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Sourniaea diacantha (Meunier) H.Gu., K.N.Mertens, Zhun Li & H.H.Shin.

Source of Synonymy
Zhang, W., Li, Z., Mertens, K.N., Derrien, A., Pospelova, V., Carbonell-Moore, M.C., Bagheri, S., Matsuoka, K., Shin, H.H. & Gu, H. (2020). Reclassification of Gonyaulax verior (Gonyaulacales, Dinophyceae) as Sourniaea diacantha gen. et comb. nov. Phycologia 59: [1-15] 246-260.

Type Information
Type locality: Plymouth Sound; (INA 1996)

General Environment
This is a marine species.

Created: 22 August 2002 by Olivia Fitzgerald.

Last updated: 07 April 2020

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G.M. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 07 April 2020. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 10 July 2025

 
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