MarBEF Data System - ERMS - Dinoflagellata

WoRMS taxon details

Dinoflagellata

AphiaID

146203 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:146203)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Infraphylum

Parent

Dinozoa

Direct children (7)

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Class Acavomonea
Class Colpovorophyceae
Class Dinophyceae
Class Noctilucea
Class Peridinea
Order Chytridiodinida
Class Dinoflagellata incertae sedis (temporary name)

Environment

marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial

Original description

Not documented

Taxonomic citation

Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2024). AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway (taxonomic information republished from AlgaeBase with permission of M.D. Guiry). Dinoflagellata. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=146203 on 2024-11-21

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

db_admin

2010-02-04 10:28:25Z

changed

Appeltans, Ward

2010-10-11 13:59:22Z

changed

Guiry, Michael D.

2010-10-29 11:30:30Z

changed

Guiry, Michael D.

2011-02-28 13:10:36Z

changed

Boxshall, Geoff

Licensing

The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License

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basis of record Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2024). AlgaeBase. <em>World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway.</em> searched on YYYY-MM-DD., available online at http://www.algaebase.org [details]

additional source Kofoid, C.A.; Swezy, O. (1921). The free-living unarmored Dinoflagellata. <em>Memoirs of the University of California.</em> 5: i-viii, 1-562., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/20306447 [details]

additional source Margulis, L.; Schwartz, K.V. (1998). Five Kingdoms: an illustrated guide to the Phyla of life on earth. 3rd edition. Freeman: New York, NY (USA). ISBN 0-7167-3027-8. xx, 520 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Unreviewed

Diet Dinoflagellates exhibit wide variation in feeding habits. Approximately half of the living species are photosynthetic, but most of these also are heterotrophic to some extent, and some dinoflagellates with functional chloroplasts can switch entirely to heterotrophy in the absence of sufficient light. [details]

Definitions

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Language	Name
English	dinoflagellates	[details]
German	PanzergeißlerDinoflagellaten	[details]

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