Cleve, P.T. (1899), Plankton collected by the Swedish expedition to Spitzbegen in 1898. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Handlingar 32 (3): 8 [comb. nov.]

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

• Comment: Note this is a later homonym.

Wood, E.J.F. (1954), Dinoflagellates of the Australian region. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 5: 171–351, fig. 238 a [secondary reference]

• Comment: Huisman 1989:441 indicates that this collection of wood is either C. carriense var. massiliense OR C. deflexum (Kofoid) Jorgensen f. deflectomassum Reinecke (1973 Studies in the genus Ceratium Schrank wit reference to specimens collected in the Agul

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]

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

nomenclatural synonym: Peridinium macroceros Ehrenb. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Ceratium gallicum Kof. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Ceratium macroceros subsp. gallicum (Kof.) Jørg. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Ceratium macroceros var. gallicum (Kof.) N.Peters legitimate

Huisman, J.M. (1989), The genus Ceratium (Dinophyceae) in Bass Strait and adjoining waters, southern Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 2: 441 [pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Ceratium carriense var. massiliense (Gourret) Huisman legitimate by Wood, E.J.F. (1954), Dinoflagellates of the Australian region. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 5: 171–351, fig. 238 a

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

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

• AMANI dist.: Queensland (tropical), Bass Strait
• Habit: Planktonic
• Habitat: Neritic, Oceanic
• Graphic: Huisman 1989: figs 28, 29

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: Peridinium macroceros Ehrenb. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Neoceratium macroceros (Ehrenb.) F.Gómez, D.Moreira & López-García nom. illeg. taxonomic synonym: Ceratium gallicum Kof. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Ceratium macroceros subsp. gallicum (Kof.) Jørg. legitimate

• Distribution: Gulf of Carpentaria/North-west Shelf, Qld (Coral Sea, Great Barrier Reef, SE coast), N.S.W., East Australian Current, Bass Strait
• Ex.distribution: Brazil, Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea, Canary Islands, West Africa, U.S.A. (California, Florida, E coast, NE coast), Canada (Nova Scotia), Denmark Strait, Iceland, North Atlantic Ocean, British Isles, North Sea, Norwegian Sea, Barents Sea, Arctic Ocean, France, Bay of Biscay, Spain, Mediterranean Sea, Adriatic Sea, Black Sea, Red Sea, Arabian Sea, Indian Ocean, Bay of Bengal, Andaman Sea, Indonesia, Gulf of Thailand, South China Sea, East China Sea, Yellow Sea, Sea of Japan, Tasman Sea, New Zealand, SW Pacific Ocean, Southern Ocean, eastern tropical Pacific Ocean, Peru, Pacific coast of Mexico, NE Pacific Ocean

Gómez, F. (2021), Speciation and infrageneric classification in the planktonic dinoflagellate Tripos (Gonyaulacales, Dinophyceae). Current Chinese Science 1(3): 368 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Tripos macroceros (Ehrenb.) Hallegr. & Huisman legitimate

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