Canadian Register of Marine Species - Peridinium Ehrenberg, 1830

CaRMS taxon details

Peridinium Ehrenberg, 1830

Meunier (1919, pl. 15)

AphiaID

109549 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:109549)

Classification

Status

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Rank

Genus

Parent

Peridiniaceae Ehrenberg, 1831

Original name

Peridinium Ehrenberg, 1830

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Species Peridinium limbatum (Stokes) Lemmermann, 1900
Species Peridinium monacanthum (Broch) Balech, 1972
Species Peridinium simplex Gran & Braarud, 1935
Species Peridinium willei Huitfeldt-Kaas, 1900
Species Peridinium brevipes Paulsen, 1908 accepted as Protoperidinium brevipes (Paulsen, 1908) Balech, 1974 (Synonym)
Species Peridinium conicum (Gran) Ostenfeld & Schmidt, 1902 accepted as Protoperidinium conicum (Gran) Balech, 1974 (Synonym)
Species Peridinium excentricum Paulsen, 1907 accepted as Protoperidinium excentricum (Paulsen, 1907) Balech, 1974 (Synonym)
Species Peridinium leonis Pavillard, 1916 accepted as Protoperidinium leonis (Pavillard, 1916) Balech, 1974 (Synonym)
Species Peridinium oblongum (Aurivillius) Cleve, 1900 accepted as Protoperidinium oblongum (Aurivillius) Parke & Dodge, 1976 (synonym)
Species Peridinium obtusum (Karsten) M.Lebour, 1925 accepted as Protoperidinium obtusum (Karsten) Parke & J.D.Dodge, 1976 (synonym)
Species Peridinium ovatum (Pouchet) F.Schütt, 1895 accepted as Protoperidinium ovatum Pouchet, 1883 (Synonym)
Species Peridinium polonicum Woloszynska, 1916 accepted as Naiadinium polonicum (Woloszynska) Carty, 2014
Species Peridinium rotundatum T.H.Abé, 1936 accepted as Protoperidinium hidemitii (Paulsen, 1949) Balech, 1994

Environment

marine, brackish, fresh

Original description

Ehrenberg, C.G. (1830). Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Organisation der Infusorien und ihrer geographischen Verbreitung, besonders in Sibirien. Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. 1830: 1-88., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.143632 [details]

Descriptive notes

LSID urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:6786

LSID urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:6786 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2025). AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway (taxonomic information republished from AlgaeBase with permission of M.D. Guiry). Peridinium Ehrenberg, 1830. Accessed through: Nozères, C., Kennedy, M.K. (Eds.) (2025) Canadian Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/CaRMS/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=109549 on 2026-07-11

Regional species database citation

Nozères, C., Kennedy, M.K. (Eds.) (2026). Canadian Register of Marine Species. Peridinium Ehrenberg, 1830. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/CaRMS/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=109549 on 2026-07-11

Taxonomic edit history

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original description Ehrenberg, C.G. (1830). Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Organisation der Infusorien und ihrer geographischen Verbreitung, besonders in Sibirien. Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. 1830: 1-88., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.143632 [details]

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]

additional source Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2026). AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. searched on YYYY-MM-DD., 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., available online at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780126930184 [details]

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]

additional source Abé, T.H. (1981). Studies on the family Peridinidae, an unfinished monograph on the armoured Dinoflagellata. Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory. Special Publication Series. 6: 1-409., available online at https://doi.org/10.5134/176462 [details] Available for editors

additional source Steidinger, K. A.; Balech, E. (1977). Scrippsiella subsalsa (Ostenfeld) comb. nov. (Dinophyceae) with a discussion on Scrippsiella*. Phycologia. 16(1): 69-73., available online at https://doi.org/10.2216/i0031-8884-16-1-69.1 [details] Available for editors

additional source Balech, E. (1964). Tercera contribución al conocimiento del género Peridinium. Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia" (Hidrobiología). 1(6): 179-195, 3 pl. [details] Available for editors