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

Protoperidinium Bergh, 1881

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

note: Protoperidinium is included in Peridiniaceae by Parker

Children

Protoperidinium achromaticum (Levander) Balech, 1974
Protoperidinium avellana (Meunier, 1919) Balech, 1974
Protoperidinium biconicum (P.A.Dangeard) Balech, 1974
Protoperidinium bipes (Paulsen, 1904) Balech, 1974
Protoperidinium breve
Protoperidinium brevipes (Paulsen, 1908) Balech, 1974
Protoperidinium brochii (Kofoid & Swezy, 1921) Balech, 1974
Protoperidinium cerasus (Paulsen, 1907) Balech, 1973
Protoperidinium claudicans (Paulsen, 1907) Balech, 1974
Protoperidinium conicoides (Paulsen) Balech, 1973
Protoperidinium conicum (Gran) Balech, 1974
Protoperidinium crassipes (Kofoid, 1907) Balech, 1974
Protoperidinium curtipes (Jørgensen, 1912) Balech, 1974
Protoperidinium curvipes (Ostenfeld) Balech, 1974
Protoperidinium decipiens (Jörgensen) Parke & J.D.Dodge, 1976
Protoperidinium defectum (Balech, 1965) Balech, 1974
Protoperidinium deficiens (Meunier, 1919) Balech, 1974
Protoperidinium denticulatum (Gran & Braarud, 1935) Balech, 1974
Protoperidinium depressum (Bailey, 1854) Balech, 1974
Protoperidinium diabolus (Cleve, 1900) Balech, 1974
Protoperidinium divergens (Ehrenberg) Balech, 1974
Protoperidinium excentricum (Paulsen, 1907) Balech, 1974
Protoperidinium fusiformis Balech
Protoperidinium globulus (Stein, 1883) Balech, 1974
Protoperidinium grande (Kofoid, 1907) Balech, 1974
Protoperidinium granii (Ostenfeld) Balech, 1974
Protoperidinium grenlandicum (Woloszynska) Balech, 1974
Protoperidinium heterocanthum (Dangeard) Balech
Protoperidinium inflatum (Okamura, 1912) Balech, 1974
Protoperidinium islandicum (Paulsen, 1904) Balech, 1973
Protoperidinium laticeps (Grontved & Seidenfaden, 1938) Balech, 1974
Protoperidinium leonis (Pavillard, 1916) Balech, 1974
Protoperidinium ligusticum (Rampi, 1951) Balech, 1974
Protoperidinium longispinum (Kofoid, 1907) Balech, 1974
Protoperidinium marielebouriae (Paulsen, 1931) Balech, 1974
Protoperidinium mediterraneum (Kofoid, 1909) Balech, 1974
Protoperidinium mite (Pavillard, 1916) Balech, 1974
Protoperidinium monospinum (Paulsen) K.A.F.Zonneveld & B.Dale, 1994
Protoperidinium murray Kofoid
Protoperidinium nudum (Meunier, 1919) Balech, 1974
Protoperidinium oblongum (Aurivillius) Parke & Dodge, 1976
Protoperidinium obtusum (Karsten) Parke & J.D.Dodge, 1976
Protoperidinium oceanicum (VanHöffen, 1897) Balech, 1974
Protoperidinium ovatum Pouchet, 1883
Protoperidinium oviforme (Dangeard, 1927) Balech, 1974
Protoperidinium ovum (Schiller, 1911) Balech, 1974
Protoperidinium pallidum (Ostenfeld, 1899) Balech, 1973
Protoperidinium pedunculatum (Schütt, 1895) Balech, 1974
Protoperidinium pellucidum Bergh, 1882
Protoperidinium pentagonum (Gran, 1902) Balech, 1974
Protoperidinium punctulatum (Paulsen, 1907) Balech, 1974
Protoperidinium pyriforme (Paulsen, 1905) Balech, 1974
Protoperidinium quarnerense (B.Schröder, 1900) Balech, 1974
Protoperidinium roseum (O.W.Paulsen, 1904) Balech, 1974
Protoperidinium saltans (Meunier, 1910) Balech, 1973
Protoperidinium schilleri (Paulsen, 1931) Balech, 1974
Protoperidinium simulum (Paulsen, 1931) Balech, 1974
Protoperidinium solidicorne (Mangin, 1926) Balech, 1974
Protoperidinium sphaericum (Murray & Whitting, 1899) Balech, 1974
Protoperidinium sphaeroides (P.-A.Dangeard, 1927) Balech, 1974
Protoperidinium steinii (Jørgensen, 1899) Balech, 1974
Protoperidinium subcurvipes (Lebour, 1923) Balech, 1974
Protoperidinium subinerme (Paulsen) Loeblich III, 1969
Protoperidinium thorianum (Paulsen, 1905) Balech, 1973
Protoperidinium thulesense (Balech) Balech, 1974
Protoperidinium tregouboffii (Halim, 1955) Balech, 1974
Protoperidinium tristylum (Stein, 1883) Balech, 1974
Protoperidinium tuba (Schiller) Balech, 1974
Protoperidinium wiesneri (Schiller, 1911) Balech, 1974

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: プロトペリディニウム属

Literature

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	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
additional source	Abé, T.H. (1981). Studies on the family Peridinidae, an unfinished monograph on the armoured Dinoflagellata. Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory. Special Publication Series. 6: 1-409.
additional source	Balech, E. (1974). El genero Protoperidinium Bergh 1881 (Peridinium Ehrenberg 1831, partim). Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia" (Hidrobiología). 4: 1-79.
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	Hansson, H. G. (1991-1997). South Scandinavian Marine Protoctista.

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). Protoperidinium Bergh, 1881. 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:109553