Prorocentrum

Prorocentrum is a genus of dinoflagellate protists in class Dinophyceae, subclass Desmophycidae. They have compressed, lanceolate, mobile cells that are devoid of a cingulum. With a cellulosic, bivalve, perforated theca and two almost isocontous flagella, with trichocysts, one directed forward, while the other tends to coil around the anterior pole. An anterior scale is presented between the two flagella. They are probably the most primitive dinoflagellates.

Taxonomy

The genus was described by the German naturalist Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg in 1834. 72 species are recognized as valid:

• Prorocentrum adriaticum Schiller
• Prorocentrum antarcticum (Hada) Balech, 1975
• Prorocentrum aporum (Schiller) Dodge, 1975
• Prorocentrum arcuatum Issel, 1928
• Prorocentrum balticum (Lohmann) Loeblich, 1970
• Prorocentrum bimaculatum Chomérat & Saburova, 2012
• Prorocentrum borbonicum L.Ten-Hage, J.Turquet, J.-P.Quod, S.Puiseux-Dao & A.Couté, 2000
• Prorocentrum caipirignum S.Fraga, M.Menezes & S.M.Nascimento, 2017
• Prorocentrum caribbaeum M.A.Faust, 1993
• Prorocentrum cassubicum (Woloszynska) Dodge, 1975
• Prorocentrum clipeus Hoppenrath, 2000
• Prorocentrum concavum Y.Fukuyo, 1981
• Prorocentrum consutum Chomérat & Nézan, 2001
• Prorocentrum cordatum (Ostenfeld) J.D.Dodge, 1975
• Prorocentrum cornutum Schiller
• Prorocentrum dactylus (Stein) Dodge, 1975
• Prorocentrum dentatum Stein, 1883
• Prorocentrum donghaiense D.Lu, 2001
• Prorocentrum elegans M.A.Faust, 1993
• Prorocentrum emarginatum Y.Fukuyo, 1981
• Prorocentrum faustiae S.L.Morton, 1998
• Prorocentrum foraminosum M.A.Faust, 1993
• Prorocentrum formosum M.A.Faust, 1993
• Prorocentrum foveolatum R.L.Croome & P.A.Tyler, 1987
• Prorocentrum fukuyoi Shauna Murray & Y.Nagahama, 2007
• Prorocentrum gibbosum (Schiller) Schiller
• Prorocentrum glenanicum Chomérat & Nézan, 2011
• Prorocentrum gracile Schütt, 1895
• Prorocentrum hoffmannianum M.A.Faust, 1990
• Prorocentrum koreanum M.-S.Han, S.Y.Cho & P.Wang, 2016
• Prorocentrum lenticulatum (Matzenauer) F.J.R.Taylor, 1976
• Prorocentrum mild M.A.Faust, M.W.Vandersea, S.R.Kibler, P.A.Tester & R.W.Litaker, 2008
• Prorocentrum levis M.A.Faust, Kibler, Vandersea, P.A.Tester & Litaker, 2008
• Prorocentrum lima F.Stein, 1878
• Prorocentrum maculosum M.A.Faust, 1993
• Prorocentrum magnum (Gaarder) J.D.Dodge, 1975
• Prorocentrum manshuricum Skvortzov, 1957
• Prorocentrum maximum (Gourret) Schiller, 1937
• Prorocentrum mexicanum Osorio-Tafall, 1942
• Prorocentrum micans Ehrenberg, 1834
• Prorocentrum nanum J.Schiller, 1918
• Prorocentrum norrisianum M.A.Faust & S.L.Morton, 1997
• Prorocentrum nux Puigserver " Zingone, 2002
• Prorocentrum oblongum (Schiller) Ab~
• Prorocentrum obtusum Ostenfeld, 1908
• Prorocentrum ovale (Gourret) J.Schiller, 1931
• Prorocentrum ovum (Schiller) J.D.Dodge, 1975
• Prorocentrum panamense D.Grzebyk, Y.Sako & B.Berland, 1998
• Prorocentrum perforatum Great, 1915
• Prorocentrum playfairii R.L.Croome & P.A.Tyler, 1987
• Prorocentrum ponticus Krachmalny & Terenko, 2002
• Prorocentrum pseudopanamense Chomérat & Nézan, 2011
• Prorocentrum pyriforme (Schiller) Taylor
• Prorocentrum reticulatum M.A.Faust, 1997
• Prorocentrum rivalis D.Delmail, P.Labrousse, P.Crassous, P.Hourdin, M.Guri & M.Botineau, 2011
• Prorocentrum rostratum Stein, 1883
• Prorocentrum rotundatum Schiller, 1928
• Prorocentrum ruetzlerianum M.A.Faust, 1990
• Prorocentrum sabulosum M.A.Faust, 1994
• Prorocentrum sculptile M.A.Faust, 1994
• Prorocentrum scutellum Schröder, 1900
• Prorocentrum shikokuense Hada ex Balech, 1975
• Prorocentrum sipadanensis Mohammad-Noor, Daugbjerg " Moestrup, 2007
• Prorocentrum steidingerae Gómez, Qiu & Lin, 2017
• Prorocentrum texanum Henrichs, Steidinger, Scott & Campbell, 2013
• Prorocentrum trytinum J.Schiller, 1918
• Prorocentrum tropicale M.A.Faust, 1997
• Prorocentrum tsawwassenense Hoppenrath & B.S.Leander, 2008
• Prorocentrum vaginula (Stein) J.D.Dodge, 1975
• Prorocentrum vaginulum (Heyrenberg) Dodge
• Prorocentrum venetum Tolomio & Cavolo, 1985
• Prorocentrum vietnamensis J.S.Yoo & Fukuyo, 2004