Morphology and molecular phylogeny of Bindiferia gen. nov. (Dinophyceae), a new marine, sand-dwelling dinoflagellate genus formerly classified within Amphidinium

This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Borchhardt, Nadine, Chomérat, Nicolas, Bilien, Gwenael, Zentz, Frédéric, Rhodes, Lesley, Murray, Shauna A., Hoppenrath, Mona (2021): Morphology and molecular phylogeny of Bindiferia gen. nov. (Dinophyceae), a new marine, sand-dwelling dinoflagellate genus formerly classified within Amphidinium. Phycologia 60 (6): 631-643, DOI: 10.1080/00318884.2021.1978040, URL: doi.org/10.1080/00318884.2021.1978040 ABSTRACT As historically described, the genus Amphidinum has long been recognized to be polyphyletic.

Amphidinium sensu lato is the most diverse of all marine benthic dinoflagellate genera and after the redefinition of the sensu stricto genus about 100 species remained of unknown generic affiliation. A species similar to the Australian sensu lato species Amphidinium boggayum was discovered in France. Morphological and molecular phylogenetic data supported the description of a new species and the classification of the two closely related species within a new athecate, photosynthetic, benthic genus, named Bindiferia.