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• Type comment: 18 Jan. Station 182 10 [degrees] 8' 2" S. Br. 192 [degrees] 14' 29" O.L. 200 m Apstein. Southern Indian Ocean.

Jørgensen, E. (1911), Die Ceratien. Eine kurze Monographie der Gattung Ceratium Schrank. Internationale Revue der Gesamten Hydrobiologie und Hydrographie 4 (Biol. Suppl.) ser. 2: 42 [secondary reference]

Wood, E.J.F. (1954), Dinoflagellates of the Australian region. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 5: 293 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Ceratium gracile Pavill. legitimate

Taylor, F.J.R. (1976), Dinoflagellates from the international Indian Ocean Expedition. A report on material collected by the R. V. 'Anton Bruun' 1963-1964. Bibliotheca Botanica 132: - [secondary reference]

Revelante, N. & Gilmartin, M. (1978), Characteristics of the microplankton and nanoplankton communities of an Australian coastal plain estuary. Austral. J. Mar. Freshw. Res 29: 9–18 [secondary reference]

Revelante, N., Williams, W.T. & Bunt, J.S. (1982), Temporal and spatial distribution of diatoms, dinoflagellates and Trichodesmium in waters of the Great Barrier Reef Australia. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 63: 27–46 [secondary reference]

Hallegraeff, G.M. & Jeffrey, S.W. (1984), Tropical phytoplankton species and pigments of continental shelf waters of north and north-west Australia. Marine Ecology Progress Series 20: 59–74 [secondary reference]

ABRS (2008), Australian Algal Name Index Edn. 2008: - [secondary reference]

• AMANI dist.: New South Wales, Western Australia (tropical), Queensland (tropical), Cosmopolitan, tropics and temperate
• Graphic: Taylor 1976 plate 16 figs 163-164, 166-167; Steidinger & Tangen 1997 In Tomas CR (ed) Identifying Marine Phytoplankton plate 26
• Habitat: Oceanic
• Habit: Planktonic

McCarthy, P. (Comp.) (2012), Census of Australian Marine Dinoflagellates: - [secondary reference]

• Distribution: Gulf of Carpentaria/North-west Shelf, Coral Sea, Qld (Great Barrier Reef), N.S.W. (N coast to Sydney), East Australian Current
• Ex.distribution: Brazil, Gulf of Mexico, South Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, Canary Islands, British Isles, Bay of Biscay, Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea, Red Sea, Arabian Sea, SE Africa, southern Indian Ocean, Sulu Sea, East China Sea, Sea of Japan, North Pacific Ocean, Solomon Islands, Tasman Sea, New Zealand, SW Pacific Ocean, Peru, Pacific coast of Mexico

Gómez, F. (2013), Reinstatement of the dinoflagellate genus Tripos to replace Neoceratium, marine species of Ceratium (Dinophyceae, Alveolata). CICIMAR Oceanides 28(1): 6 Table 1 [basionym]

basionym of: Tripos declinatus (G.Karst.) F.Gómez legitimate

Hallegraeff, G. et al. (2020), The marine planktonic dinoflagellate Tripos: 60 years of species-level distributions in Australian waters. Australian Systematic Botany 33: 395, Table 2 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Tripos declinatus (G.Karst.) F.Gómez legitimate

Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G M. (2021), -. Algaebase web site: www.algaebase.org: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Tripos declinatus (G.Karst.) F.Gómez legitimate

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