Algae Australian Algae Name Index (AANI)

Showing Ceratium furca
Ceratiaceae Kof.
Ceratium furca (Ehrenb.) Clap. & J.Lachm. , legitimate, scientific
Claparede, E. & Lachman, J. (1859), Etudes sur les infusoires et les rhizopodes. Memoire de l'Institut National Genevois 6: 399 [comb. nov.]
basionym: Peridinium furca Ehrenb. legitimate
Claparede, E. & Lachman, J. (1859), Etudes sur les infusoires et les rhizopodes. Memoire de l'Institut National Genevois 6: 348 [replaced synonym]
replaced synonym of: Ceratium furca var. pouchetii Lemmerm. legitimate
Claparede, E. & Lachman, J. (1859), Etudes sur les infusoires et les rhizopodes. Memoire de l'Institut National Genevois 6: taf 13 fig20 [replaced synonym]
replaced synonym of: Ceratium furca var. berghii Lemmerm. legitimate
Bergh, R.S. (1881), Der organismus der Cilioflagellaten. Eine phylogenetische Studie. Morphologische Jahrb Edn. 2, 7: 195 [secondary reference]
Pouchet, C.H.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: 417-419, fig 1-2 [secondary reference]
Moebius, K. (1887), Systematische Darstellung der Thiere des Plankton's , gewonnen in der west-lichen Ostsee und auf einer Fahrt von Kiel in den atlantischen Ocean. Bericht der Komission zur wissenschaftlichen Untersuchung der deutschen Meere, in Kiel 5: 121 [secondary reference]
Wood, E.J.F. (1954), Dinoflagellates of the Australian region. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 5: 171–351 [secondary reference]
Jeffrey, S.W. & Hallegraeff, G.M. (1980), Studies of phytoplankton species and photosynthetic pigments in a warm core eddy of the East Australian Current. I. Summer populations. Marine Ecology Progress Series 3: 285–294 [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]
Hallegraeff, G.M. & Reid, D.D. (1986), Phytoplankton species successions and their hydrological environment at a coastal station off Sydney. Austral. J. Mar. Freshw. Res 37: 361–377 [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 furca Ehrenb. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Biceratium furca (Ehrenb.) Vanhöffen legitimate taxonomic synonym: Peridinium eugrammum Ehrenb. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Ceratium eugrammum (Ehrenb.) Kent legitimate taxonomic synonym: Ceratium furca var. tertium Gourret legitimate taxonomic synonym: Ceratium furca var. medium Gourret legitimate taxonomic synonym: Ceratium furca var. pouchetii Lemmerm. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Ceratium furca var. berghii Lemmerm. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Ceratium furca subsp. berghii (Lemmerm.) Jørg. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Ceratium furca subsp. eugrammum (Ehrenb.) Jørg. legitimate
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.: Victoria, Tasmania, Western Australia (tropical), Queensland (tropical), Bass Strait, Cosmopolitan
  • Habit: Planktonic
  • Habitat: Neritic, Oceanic, Estuarine
  • Graphic: Huisman 1989 Australian Systematic Botany 2: fig. 5, Steidinger & Tangen 1997 In Tomas CR (ed) Identifying Marine Phytoplankton plate 25
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 furca Ehrenb. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Neoceratium furca (Ehrenb.) F.Gómez, D.Moreira & López-García legitimate taxonomic synonym: Ceratium furca var. berghii Lemmerm. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Ceratium furca var. eugrammum (Ehrenb.) J.Schiller legitimate
  • Comment: A bloom-forming species
  • Distribution: Gulf of Carpentaria/North-west Shelf, Qld (Coral Sea, Great Barrier Reef, SE coast), N.S.W. (N coast to Eden), East Australian Current, Vic., Tas., Bass Strait, S.A. (Kangaroo Island), W.A. (Albany, Swan River)
  • Ex.distribution: Brazil, South Africa, Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea, U.S.A. (E and NE coasts), Canada (E coast), North Atlantic Ocean, Canary Islands, France, NW Spain, Bay of Biscay, British Isles, North Sea, Baltic Sea, Norwegian Sea, Iceland, Barents Sea, Kara Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Adriatic Sea, Aegean Sea, Black Sea, Caspian Sea, Red Sea, Arabian Sea, Indian Ocean, Bay of Bengal, Gulf of Thailand, Indonesia, South China Sea, East China Sea, Yellow Sea, Sea of Japan, Bering Sea, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tasman Sea, SW Pacific Ocean, New Zealand, Southern Ocean, Pacific coast of Mexico
ABRS (2022), Australian Algal Name Index Edn. 2022 (Australian algal updates): 395, Table 2 [nomenclatural synonym]
nomenclatural synonym of: Tripos furca (Ehrenb.) F.Gómez legitimate