Amphidinium adriaticum Molinari & Guiry, 2021

Molinari-Novoa, Eduardo A., 2021, Nomenclatural notes on algae. V. New names for various algal taxa, mostly at the species rank, Notulae Algarum 184, pp. 1-17 : 1

Amphidinium adriaticum Molinari & Guiry , nom. nov.

Replaced name: Amphidinium aculeatum Schröder, Sitzungsberichte. Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse 120: 650, 1911 (Miozoa, Amphidiniaceae ), nom. illeg., non Amphidinium aculeatum Daday (1888: 81) , Amphidiniaceae .

Notes: The species is renamed for the type locality, the Adriatic Sea. It has been also reported from the Black Sea ( Krakhmalnyi & al. 2018) and the Mexican Pacific (Okolodkov & Gárate- Lizárraga 2006).