The Australian Algae Name Index (AANI) is a tool for the botanical community that deals with algae names and their usage in the scientific literature, whether as a current name or synonym. AANI does not recommend any particular taxonomy or nomenclature. For a listing of currently accepted scientific names for the Australian Algae, please use the Australian Algae List (AAL) link above.
Comment:Scott & Marchant 2004 Ant. Mar. Protists p. 221 include this taxon in a complex with C. pentagonum.
Wood 1954 Australian Journal of Marine & Freshwater Research 52: p. 277 includes Ceratium setaceum robustum Peters within this species. See Sournia 1973 Nove Hedwigia 48: 13 regarding this name.
AMANI dist.:New South Wales, Victoria, Bass Strait, Southern Ocean, Norway
Habit:Planktonic
Habitat:Neritic, Oceanic
Graphic:Huisman 1989 Australian Systematic Botany 2: fig. 7,
Steidinger & Tangen 1997 In Tomas CR (ed) Identifying Marine Phytoplankton plate 25
Distribution:N.S.W. (off Sydney), East Australian Current, Bass Strait, Tas. (Storm Bay, off E coast)
Ex.distribution:South Atlantic Ocean, Brazil, Gulf of Mexico, Canary Islands, U.S.A. (NE coast), Canada (E coast), North Atlantic Ocean, Iceland, British Isles, Bay of Biscay, North Sea, Baltic Sea, Norwegian Sea, Barents Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea, Arabian Sea, Yellow Sea, East China Sea, Sea of Japan, North Pacific Ocean, Bering Sea, Tasman Sea, New Zealand, Southern Ocean, Pacific coast of Mexico, Chile