Daday (1888), Termeszettud. Fuz 11: 78, 101, pl. 3, figs 1, 2 [tax. nov.]

orthographic variant: Ceratium platicornis Daday orth. var.

• Type locality: None cited in protologue

Dakin, W.J. & Colefax, A.N. (1933), The marine plankton of the coastal waters of New South Wales. I. The chief planktonic forms and their seasonal distribution. Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales 58: 186–222 [secondary reference]

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]

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: 425–454 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Ceratium tripos var. aurita Cleve legitimate misapplication: Ceratium compressum Gran legitimate by Wood, E.J.F. (1954), Dinoflagellates of the Australian region. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 5: 312

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

• AMANI dist.: Bass Strait,
• Habit: Planktonic
• Habitat: Neritic, Oceanic
• Graphic: Huisman 1989: fig. 35; Steidinger & Tangen 1997 In Tomas CR (ed) Identifying Marine Phytoplankton plate 30

Gómez, F., Moreira, D. & López-García, P. (2010), Neoceratium gen. nov., a new genus for all marine species currently assigned to ceratium (Dinophyceae). Protist 161: 47 [basionym]

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

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]

orthographic variant: Ceratium platicornis Daday orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Neoceratium platycorne (Daday) F.Gómez, D.Moreira & López-García legitimate

• Distribution: Gulf of Carpentaria/North-west Shelf, Qld (Great Barrier Reef), N.S.W., East Australian Current, Vic., Bass Strait, Tas. (off E coast)
• Ex.distribution: Brazil, Gulf of Mexico, Gulf Stream, North Atlantic Ocean, Canary Islands, British Isles, Mediterranean Sea, Indian Ocean, Indonesia, South China Sea, East China Sea, Japan, Pacific Ocean, Tasman Sea, New Zealand, 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): 18 [taxonomic synonym]

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

Algal Subcommittee (2021), CHAH Algal Subcommittee: - [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Ceratium tripos var. aurita Cleve legitimate misapplication: Ceratium compressum Gran legitimate by Wood, E.J.F. (1954), Dinoflagellates of the Australian region. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 5: 312

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

nomenclatural synonym of: Tripos platycornis (Daday) F.Gómez legitimate

Gómez, F. (2021), Speciation and infrageneric classification in the planktonic dinoflagellate Tripos (Gonyaulacales, Dinophyceae). Current Chinese Science 1(3): 369 [basionym]

basionym of: Tripos platycornis (Daday) F.Gómez legitimate

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