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

Dissodinium pseudolunula Swift ex Elbrächter & Drebes, 1978

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Pyrocystis*	J.Murray ex Haeckel, 1890	accepted genus name
*Dissodinium*	Klebs, 1916	synonym

Literature

original description	Elbrächter, M.; Drebes, G. (1978). Life cycles, phylogeny and taxonomy of Dissodinium and Pyrocystis (Dinophyta). Helgol wiss Meeresunters. 31: 347-366.
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	Tomas, C.R. (Ed.). (1997). Identifying marine phytoplankton. Academic Press: San Diego, CA [etc.] (USA). ISBN 0-12-693018-X. XV, 858 pp.
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	Brandt, S. (2001). Dinoflagellates, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 47-53
ecology source	Mitra, A.; Caron, D. A.; Faure, E.; Flynn, K. J.; Leles, S. G.; Hansen, P. J.; McManus, G. B.; Not, F.; Do Rosario Gomes, H.; Santoferrara, L. F.; Stoecker, D. K.; Tillmann, U. (2023). The Mixoplankton Database (MDB): Diversity of photo‐phago‐trophic plankton in form, function, and distribution across the global ocean. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology. 70(4).
ecology source	Drebes, G. (1978). Dissodinium pseudolunula (Dinophyta), a parasite on copepod eggs. British Phycological Journal 13(4):319-327.

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). Dissodinium pseudolunula Swift ex Elbrächter & Drebes, 1978. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=110325