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Dinophyceae: Peridiniales: Ceratiaceae
Dinoflagellida: Diniferina: Peridiniidae

 Ceratium furca
(Ehrenberg) Claparéde & Lachmann
or Ceratium furcoides (Levander) Langhans 1925 (Popovský & Pfiester 1990; John et al. eds. 2002)

Ceratium Genus: Body flattened; with one anterior and 1-4 posterior horn-like processes; chloroplasts yellow, brown, or greenish; numerous species (Kudo, 1960).
Species:

Ceratium furca (Ehrenberg) , cell body 165 μm long, 38 μm wide, x 640, Sannoh park, Nishi-ku, Saitama city, Saitama Pref., Japan, July 4, 2004 by Y. Tsukii
scale 50 μm scale 100 μm scale 150 μm; x 400 : scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
Ceratium furca Ceratium furca Ceratium furca

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