Higher Classification: > Kingdom Chromista > Subkingdom Harosa > Infrakingdom Alveolata > Phylum Myzozoa > Subphylum Dinozoa > Infraphylum Dinoflagellata > Class Dinophyceae > Subclass Peridiniphycidae > Order Gonyaulacales > Family Heterodiniaceae

Heterodinium Kofoid, 1906

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Heterodinium agassizii Kofoid, 1907
Heterodinium balechii Rampi, 1951
Heterodinium dispar Kofoid & Adamson, 1933
Heterodinium doma (Murray & Whitting) Kofoid, 1906
Heterodinium dubium Rampi, 1941
Heterodinium globosum Kofoid, 1907
Heterodinium grahamii Rampi, 1952
Heterodinium inaequale (Kofoid) Schiller, 1937
Heterodinium laticeps Léger, 1972
Heterodinium leiorhynchum (Murray & Whitting) Kofoid, 1906
Heterodinium mediterraneum Pavillard, 1931
Heterodinium minutum Kofoid & Michener, 1911
Heterodinium murrayi Kofoid, 1906
Heterodinium richardii Pavillard
Heterodinium scrippsii Kofoid, 1906
Heterodinium whittingiae Kofoid, 1906

Literature

original description	Kofoid, C.A. (1906). Dinoflagellata of the San Diego region. I. On Heterodinium, a new genus of the Peridinidae. University of California Publications in Zoology. 2: 341-368, Pls. 17-19.
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	Kofoid, C.A.; Adamson, A.M. (1933). The Dinoflagellata: the family Heterodiniidae of the Peridinioidae. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy, at Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass. 54(1): 1-136 + 22 plates.
additional source	Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2025). AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. searched on YYYY-MM-DD.
additional source	Parker, S.P. (Ed.) (1982). Synopsis and classification of living organisms. McGraw Hill Book Company: New York, NY (USA). ISBN 0-07-079031-0. 1166, 1232 pp.

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). Heterodinium Kofoid, 1906. 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:109522