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Gonyaulax
Diesing (1866)
(protist)
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Entity:
Gonyaulacoideae (Subfamily)
..†Achomosphaera (Genus)
..†Ataxiodinium (Genus)
..†Avellodinium (Genus)
..†Bitectatodinium (Genus)
..†Cannosphaeropsis (Genus)
..†Catastomocystis (Genus)
..†Corrudinium (Genus)
..†Ectosphaeropsis (Genus)
..†Evittosphaerula (Genus)
..†Exiguisphaera (Genus)
..†Gonyaulacysta (Genus)
..†Hystrichosphaeropsis (Genus)
..†Hystrichostrogylon (Genus)
..†Impagidinium (Genus)
..†Nematosphaeropsis (Genus)
..†Okerisphaeridium (Genus)
..†Pentadinium (Genus)
..†Prionodinium (Genus)
..†Psaligonyaulax (Genus)
..†Pterodinium (Genus)
..†Rottnestia (Genus)
..†Spiniferites (Genus)
..Spiraulax (Genus)
..†Tectatodinium (Genus)
..†Trabeculidium (Genus)
..†Triblastula (Genus)
..†Tubotuberella (Genus)
..†Unipontidinium (Genus)
..Gonyaulax (Genus)
....Gonyaulax acuta (Species)
....Gonyaulax africana (Species)
....Gonyaulax alaskensis (Species)
....Gonyaulax apiculata (Species)
....Gonyaulax areolata (Species)
....Gonyaulax baltica (Species)
....Gonyaulax birostris (Species)
....Gonyaulax borealis (Species)
....Gonyaulax braarudii (Species)
....Gonyaulax brevisulcata (Species)
....Gonyaulax bruunii (Species)
....Gonyaulax ceratocoroides (Species)
....Gonyaulax cochlea (Species)
....Gonyaulax diegensis (Species)
....Gonyaulax digitalis (Species)
....Gonyaulax dimorpha (Species)
....Gonyaulax elegans (Species)
....Gonyaulax elongata (Species)
....Gonyaulax expansa (Species)
....Gonyaulax fragilis (Species)
....Gonyaulax fusiformis (Species)
....Gonyaulax globosa (Species)
....Gonyaulax gracilis (Species)
....Gonyaulax helensis (Species)
....Gonyaulax hyalina (Species)
....Gonyaulax inflata (Species)
....Gonyaulax kofoidii (Species)
....Gonyaulax lebourae (Species)
....Gonyaulax ligustica (Species)
....Gonyaulax macroporus (Species)
....Gonyaulax membranacea (Species)
....Gonyaulax milneri (Species)
....Gonyaulax minuta (Species)
....Gonyaulax monacantha (Species)
....Gonyaulax monospina (Species)
....Gonyaulax nigricans (Species)
....Gonyaulax nivicola (Species)
....Gonyaulax obliqua (Species)
....Gonyaulax orientalis (Species)
....Gonyaulax ovalis (Species)
....Gonyaulax ovata (Species)
....Gonyaulax pacifica (Species)
....Gonyaulax parva (Species)
....Gonyaulax pavillardii (Species)
....Gonyaulax perpusilla (Species)
....Gonyaulax polygramma (Species)
....Gonyaulax reticulata (Species)
....Gonyaulax rostratum (Species)
....Gonyaulax rotundata (Species)
....Gonyaulax scrippsae (Species)
....Gonyaulax sousae (Species)
....Gonyaulax sphaeroidea (Species)
....Gonyaulax spinifera (Species)
....Gonyaulax striata (Species)
....Gonyaulax subulata (Species)
....Gonyaulax taylorii (Species)
....Gonyaulax trottii (Species)
....Gonyaulax turbynei (Species)
....Gonyaulax unicornis (Species)
....Gonyaulax verior (Species)
Authorship
SN2000 author citation
:
Diesing, 1866
Original name
:
Diesing, 1866. Sitzungsber. Kaiserl. Akad. Wiss., Math.-Naturwiss. Cl., Abt. 1. 52: 305, 382.
Original rank
:
Original spelling
:
Emended diagnosis (emend.)
:
Kofoid, 1911.
Types
Type of
:
Gonyaulacaceae
(Family)
Er. Lindem. (1928)
Ref:
R.A. Fensome et al., 1993
[inferred]
Type of
:
Gonyaulacales
(Order)
F.J.R. Taylor (1980)
Ref:
F.J.R. Taylor, 1980
: 83.
[
new
] [inferred]
Type of
:
Gonyaulacineae
(Suborder)
Fensome, F.J.R. Taylor, G. Norris, Sarjeant, Wharton & G.L. Williams (1993)
Ref:
R.A. Fensome et al., 1993
[inferred]
Type of
:
Gonyaulacoideae
(Subfamily)
Fensome, F.J.R. Taylor, G. Norris, Sarjeant, Wharton & G.L. Williams (1993)
Ref:
R.A. Fensome et al., 1993
[inferred]
Type
:
Gonyaulax spinifera
(Claparède & Lachmann) Diesing (1866)
Variants
Different spelling
:
Conyaulax
(Genus)
Linko, 1907
Ref:
S.A. Neave (ed.), [2005]
: [19 Dec 2008].
Different spelling
:
Goniaulax
(Genus)
Synonyms
Accepted name (pro parte)
:
Amylax
(Genus)
Meunier (1910)
Ref:
F. Gómez, 2003
: table II (p. 225).
Accepted name (pro parte)
:
Protoceratium
(Genus)
Bergh (1881)
Ref:
F. Gómez, 2003
: table II (p. 226).
Accepted name (pro parte)
:
Schuettiella
(Genus)
Balech (1988)
Ref:
F. Gómez, 2003
: table II (p. 228).
Accepted name (pro parte)
:
Spiraulax
(Genus)
Kof. (1911)
Ref:
F. Gómez, 2003
: table II (p. 230).
Synonymous name (pro parte)
:
Amylax
(Genus)
Meunier (1910)
Ref:
F. Gómez, 2003
: table II (p. 225).
Including
:
Acanthogonyaulax
(Genus)
(Kof.) H. Graham (1942)
Ref:
F. Gómez, 2012
: 138.
[inferred]
Including
:
Melanodinium
(Genus)
J. Schiller (1935)
Ref:
F. Gómez, 2012
: table 2 (p. 137).
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