Register of Antarctic Species (RAS) - Prorocentrum Ehrenberg, 1834

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RAS taxon details

Prorocentrum Ehrenberg, 1834

AphiaID

109566 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:109566)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Prorocentraceae Stein, 1883

Original name

Prorocentrum Ehrenberg, 1834

Direct children (8)

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Species Prorocentrum aporum (Schiller) Dodge, 1975
Species Prorocentrum balticum (Lohmann) Loeblich III, 1970
Species Prorocentrum cordatum (Ostenfeld) J.D.Dodge, 1976
Species Prorocentrum magnum (Gaarder) J.D.Dodge, 1975
Species Prorocentrum compressum (Bailey) T.H.Abé ex J.D.Dodge, 1975 accepted as Tryblionella compressa (J.W.Bailey) M.Poulin, 1990 accepted as Pyxidicula compressa var. compressa J.W. Bailey, 1851 (synonym)
Species Prorocentrum minimum (Pavillard) J.Schiller, 1933 accepted as Prorocentrum cordatum (Ostenfeld) J.D.Dodge, 1976
Species Prorocentrum triangulatum Martin, 1929 accepted as Prorocentrum minimum (Pavillard) J.Schiller, 1933 accepted as Prorocentrum cordatum (Ostenfeld) J.D.Dodge, 1976 (synonym)
Species Prorocentrum antarcticum (Hada) Balech, 1975 (uncertain)

Environment

marine, brackish, fresh, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Ehrenberg, C.G. (1834). Dritter Beitrag zur Erkenntniss grosser Organisation in der Richtung des kleinsten Raumes. Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. 1833: 145-336, pls I-XIII [1-11]. [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). Prorocentrum Ehrenberg, 1834. Accessed through: RAS (Eds.) (2025) Register of Antarctic Species at: https://ras.biodiversity.aq/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=109566 on 2025-09-13

Regional species database citation

RAS (Eds.) (2025). Register of Antarctic Species. Prorocentrum Ehrenberg, 1834. Accessed at: https://ras.biodiversity.aq/aphia.php/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=109566 on 2025-09-13

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

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2006-07-10 09:37:28Z

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Camba Reu, Cibran

2010-08-12 12:41:00Z

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Guiry, Michael D.

2017-07-28 14:39:02Z

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Guiry, Michael D.

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original description Ehrenberg, C.G. (1834). Dritter Beitrag zur Erkenntniss grosser Organisation in der Richtung des kleinsten Raumes. Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. 1833: 145-336, pls I-XIII [1-11]. [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 Abé, T.H. (1967). The armoured Dinoflagellata: II. Prorocentridae and Dinophysidae (A). Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory. 14(5): 369-389. [details] Available for editors

additional source Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

additional source Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2025). 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 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 Muciño-Márquez, R. E.; Figueroa-Torres, M. G.; Gárate-Lizárraga, I. (2011). Nyctemeral variation of the genus Prorocentrum (Dinophyceae) in the coastal lagoon Sontecomapan, Veracruz, Mexico. Revista Electrónica Del Departamento El Hombre Y Su Ambiente. 1, 3-13. [details] Available for editors

additional source Wasmund, N.; Dutz, J.; Kremp, A.; Zettler, M. L. (2019). Biological assessment of the Baltic Sea 2018. Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research (IOW). , available online at https://doi.org/10.12754/msr-2019-0112 [details] Available for editors