TY - JOUR
T1 - Description of Tyrannodinium gen. nov., a freshwater dinoflagellate closely related to the marine Pfiesteria-like species.
AU - Calado, Antonio J.
AU - Craveiro, Sandra
AU - Daugbjerg, Niels
AU - Moestrup, Øjvind
N1 - KEYWORDS
dinoflagellates • Peridiniopsis berolinensis • Pfiesteria • Pfiesteriaceae • Tyrannodinium
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - On the basis of morphological (light and electron microscopy) as well molecular data, we show that the widely distributed freshwater dinoflagellate presently known as Peridiniopsis berolinensis is a member of the family Pfiesteriaceae, an otherwise marine and estuarine family of dinoflagellates. P. berolinensis is a close relative of the marine species, which it resembles in morphology, mode of swimming, food-uptake mechanism, and partial LSU rRNA sequences. It differs from all known genera of the family in plate tabulation. P. berolinensis is only distantly related to the type species of Peridiniopsis, P. borgei, and is therefore transferred to the new genus Tyrannodinium as T. berolinense comb. nov. T. berolinense is a very common freshwater flagellate that feeds vigorously on other protists and is able to consume injured metazoans much larger than itself. Production of toxins has not been reported.
AB - On the basis of morphological (light and electron microscopy) as well molecular data, we show that the widely distributed freshwater dinoflagellate presently known as Peridiniopsis berolinensis is a member of the family Pfiesteriaceae, an otherwise marine and estuarine family of dinoflagellates. P. berolinensis is a close relative of the marine species, which it resembles in morphology, mode of swimming, food-uptake mechanism, and partial LSU rRNA sequences. It differs from all known genera of the family in plate tabulation. P. berolinensis is only distantly related to the type species of Peridiniopsis, P. borgei, and is therefore transferred to the new genus Tyrannodinium as T. berolinense comb. nov. T. berolinense is a very common freshwater flagellate that feeds vigorously on other protists and is able to consume injured metazoans much larger than itself. Production of toxins has not been reported.
U2 - 10.1111/j.1529-8817.2009.00735.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1529-8817.2009.00735.x
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 27032363
SN - 0022-3646
VL - 45
SP - 1195
EP - 1205
JO - Journal of Phycology
JF - Journal of Phycology
IS - 5
ER -