Gyrodinium obtusum (Schütt) Kofoid & Swezy 1921

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Chromista
Subkingdom Harosa (supergroup SAR)
Infrakingdom Halvaria
Phylum Dinoflagellata
Subphylum Myzozoa
Infraphylum Dinophyta
Superclass Dinoflagellata
Class Dinophyceae
Order Gymnodiniales
Family Gyrodiniaceae
Genus Gyrodinium

Publication details
Gyrodinium obtusum (Schütt) Kofoid & Swezy 1921: 319, fig. DD: 3; pl. 9: fig. 103

Published in: Kofoid, C.A. & Swezy, O. (1921). The free-living unarmored Dinoflagellata. Memoirs of the University of California 5: i-viii, 1-562.
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Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Gyrodinium is Gyrodinium spirale (Bergh) Kofoid & Swezy.

Status of name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.

Basionym
Gymnodinium spirale var. obtusum Schütt

Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), obtuse, blunt (Stearn 1983).

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Gymnodinium spirale var. obtusum Schütt 1895

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Spirodinium spirale var. obtusum Lemmermann 1899

General environment
This is a marine species.

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Key references
Daugbjerg, N., Hansen, G., Larsen, J. & Moestrup, Ø. (2000). Phylogeny of some of the major genera of dinoflagellates based on ultrastructure and partial LSU rDNA sequence data, including the erection of three new genera of unarmoured dinoflagellates. Phycologia 39: 302-317.

Dodge, J.D. (1982). Marine dinoflagellates of the British Isles. pp. 1-303, 35 figs, pls I-VIII. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office.

Schiller, J. (1933). Dinoflagellatae (Peridineae) in monographischer behandlung.. In: Dr. L. Rabenhosrst's Kryptogamen-Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz, 2. Aufl. 10. Bd 3. Abt. 1 Teil. (Kolkwitz, R. Eds), pp. 433-617. Leipzig: Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft M.B.H.

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