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

Tripos muelleri Bory de Saint-Vincent, 1826

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Tripos*	Bory de Saint-Vincent, 1823	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Ceratium tripos*	(O.F.Müller) Nitzsch, 1817	synonym
*Cercaria tripos*	O.F.Müller, 1776	synonym
*Neoceratium tripos*	(O.F.Müller) F.Gómez, D.Moreira & P.López-Garcia, 2010	synonym

Children

Ceratium tripos var. contrarium Gourret, 1883
Ceratium tripos var. horridum Cleve, 1897

Literature

original description	Bory de Saint-Vincent, M. (1826 [1824]). Essai d'une classification des animaux microscopiques. In: Histoire Naturelle, de l'Encyclopédie Méthodique, tome II (Zoophytes). 104 pp.
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.
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	Hansen, P. J.; Tillmann, U. (2020). Mixotrophy in Dinoflagellates: Prey Selection, Physiology and Ecological Importance in Dinoflagellates: Classification, Evolution, Physiology and Ecological Significance. Ed: Subba Rao Durvasula. Publisher: Nova Science Publishers, Inc. New York, USA.

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). Tripos muelleri Bory de Saint-Vincent, 1826. 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:495363