Algae Australian Algae Name Index (AANI)

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.

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Showing Ensiculifera

Peridiniales familia incertae sedis

AAL
Eukaryota(reg.)
Dinophyta(div.)
Dinophyceae(cl.)
Peridiniales(ordo)
Peridiniales familia incertae sedis(fam.)
Ensiculifera(gen.)

Ensiculifera Balech ex Matsuoka, Sa.Kobay. & G.Gains

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Balech, E. (May 1967), Dinoflagelados nuevos o interesantes del Golfo de Mexico y Caribe.

Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia e instituto nacional de investigacion de las ciencias naturales. Hidrobiologya

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122

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AMANI comment: The original description of Ensiculifera in Balech 1967 is invalid. There was no latin diagnosis. The taxon (E. mexicana) chosen by Balech does not have the characters used for the genus.

Matsuoka, K., Kobayashi, S. & Gains, G. (1990), A new species of the genus Ensiculifera (Dinophyceae); its cyst and motile forms.

Bulletin of Plankton Society of Japan

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135

[tax. nov.]

APC Comment: R.Cowan (2008) uses this taxon concept.
AMANI comment: The name Esiculifera was validated by Matsuoka et al. 1990 when they emended the description and supplied a Latin diagnosis. The type species they supplied for the genus is Ensiculifera carinata.

ABRS (2008), Australian Algal Name Index Edn. 2008

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McCarthy, P. (Comp.) (2012), Census of Australian Marine Dinoflagellates

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Algal Subcommittee (2019), CHAH Algal Subcommittee

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- AAL

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