Gymnodinium aureolum

Super Group: 
Alveolata
Phylum: 
Dinophyta
Class: 
Dinophyceae
Order: 
Gymnodiniales
Family: 
Gymnodiniaceae
Genus: 
Gymnodinium
Species: 
aureolum
Authority: 
(E.M.Hulburt) Gert Hansen in Gert Hansen, Daugbjerg & Henriksen 2000
Synonym(s): 
Gyrodinium aureolum E.M.Hulburt 1957
Karenia aureola (E.M.Hulbert) S.-Y.Cho, J.-S.Ki & M.-S.Han 2008

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Diagnosis

Diagnose_Genus: Gymnodinium F. Stein emend. G. Hansen & Moestrup: Unarmoured unicellular or colony-forming dinoflagellates with horseshoe-shaped apical groove running in an anticlockwise direction. Nuclear envelope with vesicular chambers. Cingulum displacement one or more cingulum widths. Nuclear or dorsal fibrous connective present. 

Type species

The type species (lectotype) of the genus Gymnodinium is Gymnodinium fuscum (Ehrenberg) Stein.

Type illustration / Type locality / Type specimen

Type locality: USA: Massachusetts: Great Pond, Barnstable County

Ecology

Substrate: planktonic
Sociability: solitary
Salinity: marine
Salinity: variable (estuary)
pH: neutral

Life cycle

Phases_alternance: haplontic
Generation: <1 month

Reproduction_mode: asexual_binary

Feeding behaviour

Photosynthetic

Mode of locomotion

Two flagella typical for Dinophyceae
Flagellum: 2
Motility: motile_swimming

Attached phylogeny

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Observation site(s)

SYMBIONTS

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Parvilucifera infectans Penzé estuary F. Lepelletier, Karpov, S. A., Le Panse, S., Bigeard, E., Skovgaard, A., Jeanthon, C., and Guillou, L., “Parvilucifera rostrata sp. nov. (Perkinsozoa), a Novel Parasitoid that Infects Planktonic Dinoflagellates”, Protist, vol. 165, no. 1, pp. 31 - 49, 2014.
Parvilucifera infectans Rance estuary F. Lepelletier, Karpov, S. A., Le Panse, S., Bigeard, E., Skovgaard, A., Jeanthon, C., and Guillou, L., “Parvilucifera rostrata sp. nov. (Perkinsozoa), a Novel Parasitoid that Infects Planktonic Dinoflagellates”, Protist, vol. 165, no. 1, pp. 31 - 49, 2014.
Parvilucifera rostrata Penzé estuary F. Lepelletier, Karpov, S. A., Le Panse, S., Bigeard, E., Skovgaard, A., Jeanthon, C., and Guillou, L., “Parvilucifera rostrata sp. nov. (Perkinsozoa), a Novel Parasitoid that Infects Planktonic Dinoflagellates”, Protist, vol. 165, no. 1, pp. 31 - 49, 2014.