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

Prorocentrum Ehrenberg, 1834

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Exuviaella*	Cienkowski, 1881	synonym

Children

Prorocentrum adriaticum Schiller
Prorocentrum aporum (Schiller) Dodge, 1975
Prorocentrum arcuatum Issel, 1928
Prorocentrum balticum (Lohmann) Loeblich III, 1970
Prorocentrum cassubicum (Woloszynska) J.D.Dodge, 1975
Prorocentrum cordatum (Ostenfeld) J.D.Dodge, 1976
Prorocentrum cornutum Schiller
Prorocentrum dactylus (Stein) Dodge, 1975
Prorocentrum dentatum F.Stein, 1883
Prorocentrum gibbosum (Schiller) Schiller
Prorocentrum gracile F.Schütt, 1895
Prorocentrum lima (Ehrenberg) F.Stein, 1878
Prorocentrum maximum (Gourret) Schiller, 1937
Prorocentrum micans Ehrenberg, 1834
Prorocentrum nanum J.Schiller, 1918
Prorocentrum oblongum (Schiller) Ab~
Prorocentrum obtusidens J.Schiller, 1928
Prorocentrum ovale (Gourret) J.Schiller, 1931
Prorocentrum ovum (Schiller) J.D.Dodge, 1975
Prorocentrum pyriforme (Schiller) Taylor
Prorocentrum redfieldii Bursa, 1959
Prorocentrum rostratum F.Stein, 1883
Prorocentrum rotundatum Schiller, 1928
Prorocentrum scutellum Schröder, 1900
Prorocentrum triestinum J.Schiller, 1918
Prorocentrum vaginula (F.Stein) J.D.Dodge, 1975
Prorocentrum vaginulum (Ehrenberg) Dodge

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: プロロケントルム属

Literature

original description	Ehrenberg, C.G. (1834). Dritter Beitrag zur Erkenntniss grosser Organisation in der Richtung des kleinsten Raumes. Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. 1833: 145-336, pls I-XIII [1-11].
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	Abé, T.H. (1967). The armoured Dinoflagellata: II. Prorocentridae and Dinophysidae (A). Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory. 14(5): 369-389.
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.
additional source	Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 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). Prorocentrum Ehrenberg, 1834. 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:109566