Gourret, P. (1883), Sur les Peridiniens du Golfe de Marseille. Annales du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Marseille 1 (8): 33 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Ceratium tripos var. limulus C.H.G.Pouchet legitimate

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

Jeffrey, S.W. & Hallegraeff, G.M. (1987), Phytoplankton pigments, species and light climate in a complex warm-core eddy of the East Australian Current. Deep Sea Res., Part A 34: 649–673 [secondary reference]

Huisman, J.M. (1989), The genus Ceratium (Dinophyceae) in Bass Strait and adjoining waters, southern Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 2: 425–454 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Ceratium tripos var. limulus C.H.G.Pouchet legitimate

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

• AMANI dist.: Queensland (tropical), Bass Strait
• Habit: Planktonic
• Graphic: Huisman 1989: figs 17,26; Steidinger & Tangen 1997 In Tomas CR (ed) Identifying Marine Phytoplankton plate 28
• 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]

nomenclatural synonym: Ceratium tripos var. limulus C.H.G.Pouchet legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Neoceratium limulus (C.H.G.Pouchet) F.Gómez, D.Moreira & López-García nom. illeg.

• APC Comment: P.McCarthy (2012) uses this taxon concept.
• Distribution: Qld (Great Barrier Reef), N.S.W., east Australian Current, Vic., Bass Strait
• Ex.distribution: Brazil, Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea, tropical and subtropical Atlantic Ocean, Canary Islands, Mediterranean Sea, Red Sea, Arabian Sea, Indian Ocean, Bay of Bengal, Andaman Sea, Indonesia, South China Sea, East China Sea, Sea of Japan, North Pacific Ocean, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, SW Pacific Ocean, Peru

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

nomenclatural synonym of: Tripos limulus (C.H.G.Pouchet) F.Gómez legitimate

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