Gourret, P. (1883), Sur les Peridiniens du Golfe de Marseille. Annales du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Marseille 1 (8): 34-35, pl. II fig. 33-35 [nom. nov.]

replaced synonym: Ceratium tripos var. macroceros (Ehrenb.) Clap. & J.Lachm. legitimate

• Type locality: frequente le long de la cote de Marseille ... Mediterranean Sea (France).
• Type comment: Gourret specifically uses Ceratium tripos var macroceros sensu Pouchet, G. (1883), Contribution a l'histoire des cilio-flagelles. Journal de l'Anatomie et de la Physiologie Normales et Pathologiques de l'Homme et des Animaux 19 as the basis for this taxon.

Gourret, P. (1883), Sur les Peridiniens du Golfe de Marseille. Annales du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Marseille 1 (8): 44 [basionym]

basionym of: Neoceratium gibberum (Gourret) F.Gómez, D.Moreira & López-García legitimate

Jørgensen, E. (1920), Mediterranean Ceratia. Report of the Danish Oceanographic Expedition to the Mediterranean 1908-1910 to the Mediterranean and Adjacent Seas II (Biol.) J. 1: 70-72 [secondary reference]

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

Huisman, J.M. (1989), The genus Ceratium (Dinophyceae) in Bass Strait and adjoining waters, southern Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 2: 449 [secondary reference]

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

• AMANI dist.: Queensland (tropical), Bass Strait, New Zealand, Cosmopolitan
• Habit: Planktonic
• Graphic: Huisman 1989 Australian Systematic Botany 2: fig. 39; Steidinger & Tangen 1997 In Tomas CR (ed) Identifying Marine Phytoplankton plate 27
• Habitat: Neritic, Oceanic

Hallegraeff, G.M., Bolch, C.J.S., Huisman, J.M. & de Salas, M.F. (2010), Planktonic dinoflagellates. Algae of Australia: Phytoplankton of Temperate Coastal Waters: 145–212 [secondary reference]

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

doubtful taxonomic synonym: Ceratium gibberum f. subaequale Jørg. legitimate

• Distribution: Gulf of Carpentaria/North-west Shelf, E coast, Bass Strait
• Ex.distribution: Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea, U.S.A. (Washington), NW Atlantic Ocean, Canary Islands, Iceland, British Isles, Bay of Biscay, North Sea, Mediterranean Sea (France, Spain, Italy, Greece), Adriatic Sea, Black Sea, Red Sea, Gulf of Guinea, East Africa, Arabian Sea, Indian Ocean, Bay of Bengal, Indonesia, Gulf of Thailand, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Japan, Coral Sea, New Caledonia, Tasman Sea, New Zealand, South Pacific Ocean, North Pacific Ocean, Pacific coast of South America

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

taxonomic synonym of: Tripos gibberus F.Gómez nom. inval.

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 [basionym]

basionym of: Tripos gibberus (Gourret) F.Gómez legitimate

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

nomenclatural synonym of: Tripos gibberus (Gourret) F.Gómez legitimate

ABRS (2023), Australian Algal Name Index Edn. 2023 (Australian algal updates): - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Tripos gibberus (Gourret) F.Gómez legitimate

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