J Syst Evol ›› 2008, Vol. 46 ›› Issue (5): 754-771.DOI: 10.3724/SP.J.1002.2008.07121

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Study on freshwater genus Peridinium (Dinophyta) from China

Guo-Xiang LIU1,Sheng HU1,Guo-Qiang CHU2,Zheng-Yu HU1   

  1. 1. State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, China
    2. Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China
    liugx@ihb.ac.cn
  • Received:2007-09-13 Published:2008-09-18

Abstract: Peridinium is an important genus of freshwater armoured dinoflagellates with two more intercalary plates (sensu Bourrelly). A few species of Peridinium were known from China heretofore. The plate pattern is one of the important criteria for the taxonomy of Peridinium, and it was difficult to visualize their plate patterns under normal light microscope. For editing of Flora Algarum Sinicarum Aquae Dulcis, 11 species of Peridinium col-lected from various freshwater habitats of China are described. Among them, 6 species are first reported from China. They are P. gatunense Nygaard, P. gutwinskii Woloszynska, P. lomnickii Woloszynska, P. palatinum Lauterborn, P. striolatum Playfair, and P. zonatum Playfair. Epifluorescence microscopy and scanning electron microscopy, and also light microscopy were employed for their structure and patterns of thecal plates.

Key words: China, freshwater dinoflagellates, new record, Peridinium