Higher Classification: > Kingdom Chromista > Subkingdom Harosa > Infrakingdom Alveolata > Phylum Myzozoa > Subphylum Dinozoa > Infraphylum Dinoflagellata > Class Dinophyceae > Order Oxyrrhinales > Family Oxyrrhinaceae

Oxyrrhis Dujardin, 1841

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

note: Also listed under Discomitochondria - needs checking

Children

Oxyrrhis marina Dujardin, 1841
Oxyrrhis phaeocysticola Scherffel

Literature

original description	Dujardin, F. (1841). Histoire Naturelle des Zoophytes. Infusoires, comprenant la physiologie et la classification de ces animaux, et la manière de les étudier à l'aide du microscope. Paris. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, xii + 684 pp.; Atlas: 22 pls
basis of record	Gómez, F. (2005). A list of free-living dinoflagellate species in the world's oceans. Acta Bot. Croat. 64(1): 129-212.
additional source	Hansson, H. G. (1991-1997). South Scandinavian Marine Protoctista.
additional source	Kofoid, C.A.; Swezy, O. (1921). The free-living unarmored Dinoflagellata. Memoirs of the University of California. 5: i-viii, 1-562.

Genbank

Taxonomy

Published in AlgaeBase

Citation

Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2025). AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway (taxonomic information republished from AlgaeBase with permission of M.D. Guiry). Oxyrrhis Dujardin, 1841. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:109486