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

Peridinium Ehrenberg, 1830

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Peridinium bipes F.Stein, 1883
Peridinium chattonii Biecheler, 1952
Peridinium cinctum (O.F.Müller) Ehrenberg, 1832
Peridinium dalei (Indel. & Loeblich) Balech
Peridinium gargantua Biecheler, 1952
Peridinium quadridentatum (F.Stein) Gert Hansen, 1995
Peridinium raciborskii Woloszynska, 1912
Peridinium spheroides P.A.Dangeard, 1927
Peridinium volzii Lemmermann, 1905
Peridinium willei Huitfeldt-Kaas, 1900

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: ペリディニウム属

Literature

original description	Ehrenberg, C.G. (1830). Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Organisation der Infusorien und ihrer geographischen Verbreitung, besonders in Sibirien. Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. 1830: 1-88.
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. (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. (1964). Tercera contribución al conocimiento del género Peridinium. Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia" (Hidrobiología). 1(6): 179-195, 3 pl.
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	Steidinger, K. A.; Balech, E. (1977). Scrippsiella subsalsa (Ostenfeld) comb. nov. (Dinophyceae) with a discussion on Scrippsiella. Phycologia.* 16(1): 69-73.
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	Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2025). AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. searched on YYYY-MM-DD.

Genbank

Taxonomy

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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). Peridinium Ehrenberg, 1830. 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:109549