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Appendix B

Peridinium divergens var. conicum

"Peridinium divergens var. conicum" Gran, 1900, p.47.

TYPE: Holotype: information not available.

HISTORY: NOW: Protoperidinium conicum (Appendix B). Originally Peridinium divergens var. conicum, subsequently Peridinium conicum, thirdly (and now) Protoperidinium conicum (Appendix B).

COMMENTS: Modern taxon defined from the motile stage. Fossil cysts assigned to this taxon by Deflandre (1939b) were included in Palaeoperidinium deflandrei by Lentin and Williams (1973, p.105).

AGE: extant.


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