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Prorocentraceae Stein, 1883 
AphiaID: 109442

Classification: Biota > Chromista (Kingdom) > Harosa (Subkingdom) > Alveolata (Infrakingdom) > Myzozoa (Phylum) > Dinozoa (Subphylum) > Dinoflagellata (Infraphylum) > Peridinea (Class) > Peridinoidia (Subclass) > Prorocentrida (Order)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Family
Parent Prorocentrida
Synonymised
taxa
  Prorocentridae (synonym)
Sources  basis of record: Gómez, F., 2005. A list of free-living dinoflagellate species in the world’s oceans. Acta Bot. Croat. 64 (1), 129-212. [details] [full text]

additional source: Parker, S.P. (Ed.) (1982). Synopsis and classification of living organisms. McGraw Hill Book Company: New York, NY (USA). ISBN 0-07-079031-0. 1166, 1232 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

from synonym: Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.) (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp. (look up in IMIS[details] [view taxon]

Direct child
taxa

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 Genus Cenchridinium Ehrenberg
Genus Mesoporos Lillick, 1937
Genus Plagiodinium M.A.Faust & Balech, 1993
Genus Prorocentrum Ehrenberg, 1834
Genus Wysotzkia Lemmermann

Genus Exuviaella Cienkowski, 1881 accepted as Prorocentrum Ehrenberg, 1834
Genus Exuviella Cienkowski, 1881 accepted as Prorocentrum Ehrenberg, 1834
Genus Mesoporus accepted as Mesoporos Lillick, 1937
Environment marine
Links To GenBank
To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:109442
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  db_admin
2006-07-10 09:37:28Z  changed  Camba Reu, Cibran
2011-07-29 07:04:15Z  checked  Guiry, Michael D.
2012-01-06 12:46:57Z  changed  Gordon, Dennis
  
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  Citation: Guiry, Michael D. (2013). Prorocentraceae. In: Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2013). AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway (taxonomic information republished from AlgaeBase with permission of M.D. Guiry). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=109442 on 2013-05-19
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