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Great Lakes Dinoflagellate Species List

• Order Dinococcales
  • Family Dinococcaceae
    • Genus Cystodinium
      • Cystodinium cornifax
      • Cystodinium iners
      • Cystodinium steinii
    • Genus Raciborskia
      • Raciborskia bicornis
    • Genus Tetradinium
      • Tetradinium javanicum
      • Tetradinium minus H
      • Tetradinium simplex
• Order Dinotrichales
• Order Gymnodiniales
  • Family Gymnodiniaceae
    • Genus Amphidinium*#
    • Genus Gymnodinium DsDmDo
      • Gymnodinium caudatum
      • Gymnodinium fuscum H
      • Gymnodinium helveticum*# DmDo
      • Gymnodinium palustre
• Order Peridiniales
  • Family Ceratiaceae
    • Genus Ceratium
      • Ceratium carolinianum
      • Ceratium cornutum
      • Ceratium hirundinella*#H DhDeDo
  • Family Glenodiniaceae
    • Genus Glenodinium #
      • Glenodinium armatum
      • Glenodinium borgei
      • Glenodinium gymnodinium
      • Glenodinium kulczynskii
      • Glenodinium palustre
      • Glenodinium penardiforme
      • Glenodinium pulvisculus H
      • Glenodinium quadridens*
    • Genus Hemidinium
      • Hemidinium nasutum
  • Family Peridiniaceae
    • Genus Peridinium DmDhDo
      • Peridinium aciculiferum#
      • Peridinium cinctum*H
      • Peridinium gatunense
      • Peridinium inconspicuum*H
      • Peridinium limbatum
      • Peridinium pusillum H
      • Peridinium viguieri*#
      • Peridinium wisconsinense
      • Peridinium willei H

Based on: G.W. Prescott. 1962. Algae of the Western Great Lakes Area. Wm. C. Brown Co., Inc.

*Plankton in Lake Michigan 1983 - 1992 . EPA/GLNPO. Epilimnetic Phytoplankton and Zooplankton Biomass and Species Composition in Lake Michigan, 1983 to 1992. Joseph C. Makarewicz, Theodore Lewis and Paul Bertram. October 1994. [Reports Stylotheca aurea - Other references to this species of Chrysophyte cannot be found so this species is not included in the above list]

#Plankton in Lake Ontario 1986 - 1992. EPA/GLNPO. Epilimnetic Phytoplankton and Zooplankton Biomass and Species Composition in Lake Ontario, 1986 to 1992. Joseph C. Makarewicz, Theodore Lewis1 and Paul Bertram. July 1995.

E Great Lakes Aquatic Nonindigenous Species List.

Ds Dm Dh De Do - Dominant algae species of each Lake - Per Results From The Great Lakes National Program Office's Biological Open Water Surveillance Program Of The Laurentian Great Lakes for 1998. EPA.

H Brown and Manny. 1983. Nearshore Plankton of Hammond Bay, Lake Huron. JGLR 9(4)523-529.

Additional taxonomic placements based on: Prescott. 1970. how to know the Freshwater Algae. Wm. C. Brown Co. [Ankyra, Chlorogonium, Lobomonas, Phacotus, Pyramidomonas, Sphaerellocystis, Bitrichia, Chromulina, Chrysarachnion, Chrysochromulina, Chrysococcus, Epipyxis, Kephyrion, Monosiga, Ochromonas, Pseudokephyrion, Salpingoeca, Stichogloea, Uroglena, Chilomonas, Rhodomonas, Amphidinium, Enteromorpha, Nitellopsis]

Additional taxonomic placements based on: Protist Information Server. [Chlamydocapsa, Monoraphidium, Planktonema, Selenastrum, Sphaerellopsis]

Additional taxonomic placements based on: European Register of Marine Species [Hymenomonas]

Additional taxonomic placements based on: Systema Naturae 2000 [Paraphysomonas, Spiniferomonas]

Additional taxonomic placements based on: VCR LTER Biodiversity Database [Coccochloris]

?Additional Taxonomy, uncertain.[Chodatellopsis, Diplochloris, Echinocoleum, Gloedactinium, Chrysolykos, Isthmochloron, Sphacelariales]