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Ceratium contortum (Gourret) Cleve, 1900 
AphiaID: 109941

Classification: Biota > Chromista (Kingdom) > Harosa (Subkingdom) > Alveolata (Infrakingdom) > Myzozoa (Phylum) > Dinozoa (Subphylum) > Dinoflagellata (Infraphylum) > Peridinea (Class) > Gonyaulacoidia (Subclass) > Gonyaulacida (Order) > Ceratiaceae (Family) > Ceratium (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Neoceratium contortum (Gourret) F.Gomez, D.Moreira & P.Lopez-Garcia, 2010
Rank Species
Parent Ceratium Schrank, 1793
Synonymised
taxa
  Ceratium arcuatum (Gourret) Cleve (synonym)
Ceratium contortum var. contortum (Gourret) Cleve, 1900
Ceratium longinum (Karsten, 1907) Jørgensen, 1911 (synonym)
Ceratium saltans Schröder, 1906 (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: Lakkis, S. (2011). Le phytoplancton marin du Liban (Méditerranée orientale): biologie, biodiversité, biogéographie. Aracne: Roma. ISBN 978-88-548-4243-4. 293 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Algaebase, available online at http://www.algaebase.org [details]

additional source: Tomas, C.R. (Ed.) (1997). Identifying marine phytoplankton. Academic Press: San Diego, CA [etc.] (USA). ISBN 0-12-693018-X. XV, 858 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Brandt, S. (2001). Dinoflagellates, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 47-53 (look up in IMIS[details]

from synonym: Steidinger, K. A., M. A. Faust, and D. U. Hernández-Becerril. 2009. Dinoflagellates (Dinoflagellata) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 131–154 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College [details] [view taxon]

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 Forma Ceratium contortum f. subcontortum (Schröder) Steemann Nielsen, 1934
Variety Ceratium contortum var. longinum (Karsten) Sournia, 1967
Variety Ceratium contortum var. robustum (Karsten) Sournia, 1966

Variety Ceratium contortum var. contortum (Gourret) Cleve, 1900 accepted as Ceratium contortum (Gourret) Cleve, 1900 accepted as Neoceratium contortum (Gourret) F.Gomez, D.Moreira & P.Lopez-Garcia, 2010
Variety Ceratium contortum var. karstenii (Pavillard) Sournia, 1966 accepted as Neoceratium karstenii (Pavillard) F.Gomez, D.Moreira & P.Lopez-Garcia, 2010
Environment marine
Distribution European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
Lebanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Links Published in AlgaeBase Logo AlgaeBase
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (13 publications)
To PESI
To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:109941
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Brandt, Sue
2006-07-26 11:37:58Z  changed  Camba Reu, Cibran
2011-02-09 08:22:37Z  changed  Guiry, Michael D.
  
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  Citation: Guiry, Michael D. (2013). Ceratium contortum (Gourret) Cleve, 1900. 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=109941 on 2013-05-24
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