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

Pentapharsodinium tyrrhenicum (Balech) Montresor, Zingone & Marino, 1993

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Pentapharsodinium*	Indelicato & Loeblich III, 1986	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Pentapharsodinium tyrrhenoicum*	(Balech, 1990) Montressor, Zingone & Marino, 1993	synonym
*Peridinium tyrrhenicum*	Balech, 1990	synonym

Literature

basis of record	Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2025). AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. searched on YYYY-MM-DD.
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	Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2025). AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. searched on YYYY-MM-DD.
ecology source	Smith, K.D.; Dodson, M.; Santos, S.; Gast, R.; Rogerson, A. (2007). Pentapharsodinium tyrrhenicum is a parasitic dinoflagellate of the ctenophore Mnemiopsis Leidyi. Journal of Phycology. 43: 37.
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).

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). Pentapharsodinium tyrrhenicum (Balech) Montresor, Zingone & Marino, 1993. 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:233820