Ostenfeld, C.E.H. & Schmidt, J. (1901), Plankton fra det Rode Hav og Adenbugten [Plankton of the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden]. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening i Kjobenhavn 25: 165-166, fig 16 [tax. nov.]

• Type comment: ... udbredt i det Roede og Indiske Hav. Gulf of Aden.

Schröder, B. (1906), Beitrage zur Kenntnis des Phytoplanktons warmer Meeres. Naturforschende Gesellschaft in Zuerich. Vierteljahresschrift 51: 358, f. 27 [pro parte taxonomic synonym]

pro parte taxonomic synonym of: Ceratium pulchellum Schröd. legitimate

Wood, E.J.F. (1954), Dinoflagellates of the Australian region. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 5: 171–351 [secondary reference]

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]

taxonomic synonym: Ceratium dens var. reflexa E.J.Schmidt legitimate

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]

• Comment: Wood 1954 Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 5:284 considers this taxon an indicator species of water flow from the Timor Sea to the Coral Sea.
• AMANI dist.: Western Australia (tropical), Queensland (temperate), Queensland (tropical), Timor Sea
• Graphic: Taylor 1976 plate 17 fig 172
• Habit: Planktonic
• Habitat: Oceanic

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

• Distribution: Gulf of Carpentaria/North-west Shelf, Torres Strait, Qld (Great Barrier Reef), N.S.W. (as far S as Montague Island)
• Ex.distribution: Costa Rica, Gulf of Mexico, Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea, Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, Arabian Sea, Indian Ocean, Madagascar, Bay of Bengal, Gulf of Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Timor Sea, South China Sea, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Peru-Chile Current, Mexico (Gulf of California), U.S.A. (California)

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 dens (Ostenf. & E.J.Schmidt) 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 dens (Ostenf. & E.J.Schmidt) F.Gómez legitimate

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

nomenclatural synonym of: Tripos dens (Ostenf. & E.J.Schmidt) F.Gómez legitimate

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