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  1. The enigmatic dinoflagellate Gloeodinium marinum is a Prorocentrum species, P. palmelloides nom. nov. (Dinophyceae)

    Article • Journal of Phycology, July 2025, Wiley

    Dr Senjie Lin, Dr Fernando Gomez

  2. The Dinoflagellate Gonyaulax fragilis Is ‘the Wrong Man’ of the Dirty Seas, and Reinstatement of Steiniella Within the Protoceratiaceae (Dinophyceae)

    Article • Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, June 2025, Wiley

    Dr Senjie Lin, Dr Fernando Gomez

  3. Reinstatement of the genus Coenobiodiscus for the distinctive colonial diatom Planktoniella muriformis (Bacillariophyta)

    Article • Diatom Research, January 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Senjie Lin, Dr Fernando Gomez

  4. (3060) Proposal to conserve the names Dinopyxis compressa, Exuviaella compressa, and Prorocentrum compressum (Dinophyceae) with a conserved type

    Article • Taxon, January 2025, Wiley

    Dr Fernando Gomez

  5. The identity of Centrodinium elongatum, type species of the dinoflagellate genus Centrodinium (Dinophyceae), and a review on the synonymy of allied species

    Article • Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, October 2024, Wiley

    Dr Senjie Lin, Dr Fernando Gomez

  6. Prorocentrum canariense sp. nov., a case of pseudo‐cryptic speciation in the cosmopolitan dinoflagellate P. compressum (Prorocentrales, Dinophyceae)

    Article • Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, July 2024, Wiley

    Dr Fernando Gomez

  7. Misidentifications of the bloom-forming dinoflagellates Gymnodinium litorale and Margalefidinium polykrikoides in the Mediterranean Sea

    Article • Regional Studies in Marine Science, February 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Senjie Lin, Dr Fernando Gomez

  8. Rediscovery of the dinoflagellate genus Pavillardia Kofoid & Swezy and its synonymy with Gyrodinium Kofoid & Swezy (Dinophyceae)

    Article • South African Journal of Botany, November 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Fernando Gomez

  9. Record of the unarmored dinoflagellate Gynogonadinium aequatoriale (Ceratoperidiniaceae, Dinophyceae) in the Mediterranean Sea

    Article • Botanica Marina, October 2023, De Gruyter

    Dr Fernando Gomez

  10. Molecular phylogeny of the spiny‐surfaced species of the dinoflagellate Prorocentrum with the description of P. thermophilum sp. nov. and P. criophilum sp. nov. (Prorocentrales, Dinophyceae)

    Article • Journal of Phycology, January 2023, Wiley

    Dr Senjie Lin, Dr Fernando Gomez

  11. Rediscovery of the gonyaulacoid dinoflagellate Schuettiella

    Article • Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, May 2022, Wiley

    Dr Fernando Gomez

  12. (2833) Proposal to conserve the name Phalacroma (Dinophysales: Dinophyceae)

    Article • Taxon, October 2021, Wiley

    Dr Fernando Gomez

  13. Speciation and Infrageneric Classification in the Planktonic Dinoflagellate Tripos (Gonyaulacales, Dinophyceae)

    Article • Current Chinese Science, July 2021, Bentham Science Publishers

    Dr Fernando Gomez

  14. Recent proposals on nomenclature of dinoflagellates (Dinophyceae)

    Article • March 2021, ScienceOpen

    Dr Fernando Gomez

  15. Molecular phylogeny and synonymy of Balechina gracilis comb. nov. (=Gymnodinium gracile), a widespread polymorphic unarmored dinoflagellate (Dinophyceae)

    Article • Journal of Phycology, March 2021, Wiley

    Dr Fernando Gomez

  16. Recent proposals on nomenclature of dinoflagellates (Dinophyceae)

    Article • March 2021, ScienceOpen

    Dr Fernando Gomez

  17. Comments on the “Mediterranean alien harmful algal blooms” by Marampouti et al. Environ. Sci. Pollut. Res. 2021

    Article • Environmental Science and Pollution Research, February 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Fernando Gomez

  18. Speciation and infrageneric classification in the planktonic dinoflagellate Tripos (Gonyaulacales, Dinophyceae)

    Article • August 2020, ScienceOpen

    Dr Fernando Gomez

  19. Symbioses of Ciliates (Ciliophora) and Diatoms (Bacillariophyceae): Taxonomy and Host–Symbiont Interactions

    Article • Oceans, July 2020, MDPI AG

    Dr Fernando Gomez

  20. Observations of the Diatoms Sceptronema orientale Takano and Tabularia parva (Kützing) D.M.Williams & Round on the Exoskeleton of Copepods in the English Channel and Coastal Celtic Seas

    Article • Cryptogamie Algologie, March 2020, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France

    Dr Fernando Gomez

  21. Prioritizing marine invasive alien species in the European Union through horizon scanning

    Article • Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, March 2020, Wiley

    Dr Fernando Gomez

  22. Redefinition of the Dinoflagellate GenusAlexandriumBased onCentrodinium: Reinstatement ofGessneriumandProtogonyaulax, andEpisemicolongen. nov. (Gonyaulacales, Dinophyceae)

    Article • Journal of Marine Biology, December 2019, Wiley

    Dr Fernando Gomez

  23. Are there Invasive Planktonic Microbes?

    Article • Journal of Marine Science Research and Oceanography, November 2019, Opast Group LLC

    Dr Fernando Gomez

  24. Excessive proliferation of new dinoflagellate generic names: the case of Torquentidium (Ceratoperidiniaceae, Dinophyceae)

    Article • November 2019, ScienceOpen

    Dr Fernando Gomez

  25. Comments on the non-indigenous microalgae in the European seas

    Article • Marine Pollution Bulletin, November 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Fernando Gomez

  26. A review on the synonymy of the dinoflagellate genera Oxytoxum and Corythodinium (Oxytoxaceae, Dinophyceae)

    Article • Nova Hedwigia, August 2018, Schweizerbart

    Dr Fernando Gomez

  27. Morphology and molecular phylogeny of epizoic araphid diatoms on marine zooplankton, including Pseudofalcula hyalina gen. & comb. nov. (Fragilariophyceae, Bacillariophyta)

    Article • Journal of Phycology, July 2018, Wiley

    Dr Fernando Gomez, Dr Senjie Lin

  28. Molecular phylogeny suggests the affinity of the planktonic diatoms Climacodium and Bellerochea (Lithodesmiales, Mediophyceae)

    Article • Diatom Research, July 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Fernando Gomez, Dr Senjie Lin

  29. Morphology and Molecular Phylogeny of Peritrich Ciliate Epibionts on Pelagic Diatoms: Vorticella oceanica and Pseudovorticella coscinodisci sp. nov. (Ciliophora, Peritrichia)

    Article • Protist, April 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Fernando Gomez, Dr Senjie Lin

  30. Morphological and molecular characterization of the toxic dinoflagellate Ostreopsis cf. ovata (Dinophyta) from Brazil (South Atlantic Ocean)

    Article • Revista de Biología Tropical, June 2017, Universidad de Costa Rica

    Dr Fernando Gomez

  31. Motile behaviour of the free-living planktonic ciliate Zoothamnium pelagicum (Ciliophora, Peritrichia)

    Article • European Journal of Protistology, June 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Fernando Gomez

  32. The function of the ocelloid and piston in the dinoflagellate Erythropsidinium (Gymnodiniales, Dinophyceae)

    Article • Journal of Phycology, March 2017, Wiley

    Dr Fernando Gomez

  33. The Synonymy of the Toxic Dinoflagellates Prorocentrum mexicanum and P. rhathymum and the Description of P. steidingerae sp. nov. (Prorocentrales, Dinophyceae)

    Article • Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, March 2017, Wiley

    Dr Fernando Gomez, Dr Senjie Lin

  34. Molecular characterization and morphology of Cochlodinium strangulatum, the type species of Cochlodinium, and Margalefidinium gen. nov. for C. polykrikoides and allied species (Gymnodiniales, Dinophyceae)

    Article • Harmful Algae, March 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Fernando Gomez

  35. Molecular phylogeny suggests transfer of Hemidiscus into Actinocyclus (Coscinodiscales, Coscinodiscophyceae)

    Article • Diatom Research, January 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Fernando Gomez, Dr Senjie Lin

  36. Achradina pulchra, a Unique Dinoflagellate (Amphilothales, Dinophyceae) with a Radiolarian-like Endoskeleton of Celestite (Strontium Sulfate)

    Article • Acta Protozoologica, January 2017, Uniwersytet Jagiellonski – Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellonskiego

    Dr Fernando Gomez

  37. Molecular Phylogeny of the Marine Planktonic Dinoflagellate Oxytoxum and Corythodinium (Peridiniales, Dinophyceae)

    Article • Acta Protozoologica, December 2016, Uniwersytet Jagiellonski – Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellonskiego

    Dr Fernando Gomez

  38. Morphological and molecular characterization ofPtychodiscus noctilucarevealed the polyphyletic nature of the order Ptychodiscales (Dinophyceae)

    Article • Journal of Phycology, August 2016, Wiley

    Dr Fernando Gomez, Dr Senjie Lin

  39. Circumtropical distribution of the epiphytic dinoflagellateCoolia malayensis(Dinophyceae): Morphology and molecular phylogeny from Puerto Rico and Brazil

    Article • Phycological Research, July 2016, Wiley

    Dr Fernando Gomez, Dr Senjie Lin

  40. The nature of the diatom Leptocylindrus mediterraneus (Bacillariophyceae), host of the enigmatic symbiosis with the stramenopile Solenicola setigera

    Article • Phycologia, May 2016, International Phycological Society

    Dr Fernando Gomez

  41. Unarmoured dinoflagellates with a small hyposome:TorodiniumandLebouridiniumgen. nov. forKatodinium glaucum(Gymnodiniales, Dinophyceae)

    Article • European Journal of Phycology, March 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Fernando Gomez

  42. Balechinaand the new genusCucumeridiniumgen. nov. (Dinophyceae), unarmored dinoflagellates with thick cell coverings

    Article • Journal of Phycology, October 2015, Wiley

    Dr Fernando Gomez

  43. Fukuyoa paulensis gen. et sp. nov., a New Genus for the Globular Species of the Dinoflagellate Gambierdiscus (Dinophyceae)

    Article • PLOS One, April 2015, PLOS

    Dr Fernando Gomez, Dr Senjie Lin

  44. A new definition ofAdenoides eludens, an unusual marine sand-dwelling dinoflagellate without cingulum, andPseudadenoides kofoidiigen. & comb. nov. for the species formerly known asAdenoides eludens

    Article • European Journal of Phycology, February 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Fernando Gomez

  45. Hoppenrath, M., Murray, S.A., Chomérat, N. and Horiguchi, T.2014. Marine Benthic Dinoflagellates – Unveiling Their Worldwide Biodiversity. Kleine Senckenberg‐Reihe, Band 54, Schweizerbart, Stuttgart, Germany ISBN 978‐3‐510‐61402‐8, 276 pp., 19.90 Euro,...

    Article • Limnology and Oceanography Bulletin, February 2015, Wiley

    Dr Fernando Gomez

  46. The molecular phylogeny of the type-species of Oodinium Chatton, 1912 (Dinoflagellata: Oodiniaceae), a highly divergent parasitic dinoflagellate with non-dinokaryotic characters

    Article • Systematic Parasitology, February 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Fernando Gomez

  47. A Parasite of Marine Rotifers: A New Lineage of Dinokaryotic Dinoflagellates (Dinophyceae)

    Article • Journal of Marine Biology, January 2015, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Dr Fernando Gomez

  48. Molecular Phylogeny of the Parasitic DinoflagellateChytriodiniumwithin theGymnodiniumClade (Gymnodiniales, Dinophyceae)

    Article • Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, October 2014, Wiley

    Dr Fernando Gomez

  49. High diversity of dinoflagellates in the intertidal sandy sediments of Wimereux (north-east English Channel, France)

    Article • Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, December 2013, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Fernando Gomez

  50. The formation of the twin resting cysts in the dinoflagellate Dissodinium pseudolunula, a parasite of copepod eggs

    Article • Journal of Plankton Research, July 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Fernando Gomez

  51. Morphology and distribution of Pronoctiluca (Dinoflagellata, incertae sedis) in the Pacific Ocean

    Article • Acta Oceanologica Sinica, April 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Fernando Gomez

  52. Coccolithophorids in Polar Waters: Wigwamma spp. Revisited

    Article • Acta Protozoologica, January 2013, Uniwersytet Jagiellonski – Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellonskiego

    Dr Fernando Gomez

  53. Molecular Phylogeny of Tintinnid Ciliates (Tintinnida, Ciliophora)

    Article • Protist, November 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Fernando Gomez, John R Dolan

  54. A quantitative review of the lifestyle, habitat and trophic diversity of dinoflagellates (Dinoflagellata, Alveolata)

    Article • Systematics and Biodiversity, September 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Fernando Gomez

  55. Database of diazotrophs in global ocean: abundance, biomass and nitrogen fixation rates

    Article • Earth System Science Data, August 2012, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Fernando Gomez, Dr Scott Doney, Ricardo Maria Letelier

  56. Molecular phylogeny of the marine dinoflagellate genus Heterodinium (Dinophyceae)

    Article • European Journal of Phycology, April 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Fernando Gomez, John R Dolan

  57. Sinophysis and Pseudophalacroma are Distantly Related to Typical Dinophysoid Dinoflagellates (Dinophysales, Dinophyceae)

    Article • Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, December 2011, Wiley

    Dr Fernando Gomez

  58. MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY OF DINOPHYSOID DINOFLAGELLATES: THE SYSTEMATIC POSITION OF OXYPHYSIS OXYTOXOIDES AND THE DINOPHYSIS HASTATA GROUP (DINOPHYSALES, DINOPHYCEAE)1

    Article • Journal of Phycology, April 2011, Wiley

    Dr Fernando Gomez

  59. Diversity and Distribution of the Dinoflagellates Brachidinium, Asterodinium and Microceratium (Brachidiniales, Dinophyceae) in the open Mediterranean Sea

    Article • Acta Botanica Croatica, January 2011, De Gruyter

    Dr Fernando Gomez

  60. Tidal and annual variability of the population structure of Eurytemora affinis in the middle part of the Seine Estuary during 2005

    Article • Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science, November 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Fernando Gomez

  61. A Genus Name for the Marine Species of Ceratium.

    Article • Protist, October 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Fernando Gomez

  62. Solenicola setigera is the first characterized member of the abundant and cosmopolitan uncultured marine stramenopile group MAST-3

    Article • Environmental Microbiology, August 2010, Wiley

    Dr Fernando Gomez

  63. Molecular Phylogeny of Noctilucoid Dinoflagellates (Noctilucales, Dinophyceae)

    Article • Protist, July 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Fernando Gomez

  64. Molecular phylogeny of the dinoflagellates Podolampas and Blepharocysta (Peridiniales, Dinophyceae)

    Article • Phycologia, May 2010, International Phycological Society

    Dr Fernando Gomez

  65. Neoceratium gen. nov., a New Genus for All Marine Species Currently Assigned to Ceratium (Dinophyceae)

    Article • Protist, January 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Fernando Gomez

  66. Life cycle and molecular phylogeny of the dinoflagellates Chytriodinium and Dissodinium, ectoparasites of copepod eggs

    Article • European Journal of Protistology, November 2009, Elsevier

    Dr Fernando Gomez

  67. Molecular Phylogeny of the Ocelloid-Bearing DinoflagellatesErythropsidiniumandWarnowia(Warnowiaceae, Dinophyceae)

    Article • Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, September 2009, Wiley

    Dr Fernando Gomez

  68. The crustacean parasites Ellobiopsis Caullery, 1910 and Thalassomyces Niezabitowski, 1913 form a monophyletic divergent clade within the Alveolata

    Article • Systematic Parasitology, July 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Fernando Gomez

  69. Erythropsidinium (Gymnodiniales, Dinophyceae) in the Pacific Ocean, a unique dinoflagellate with an ocelloid and a piston

    Article • European Journal of Protistology, November 2008, Elsevier

    Dr Fernando Gomez

  70. The impact of the 2003 summer heat wave and the 2005 late cold wave on the phytoplankton in the north-eastern English Channel

    Article • Comptes Rendus Biologies, September 2008, Elsevier

    Dr Fernando Gomez

  71. Phytoplankton invasions: Comments on the validity of categorizing the non-indigenous dinoflagellates and diatoms in European Seas

    Article • Marine Pollution Bulletin, April 2008, Elsevier

    Dr Fernando Gomez

  72. Dicroerisma (Actiniscales, Dinophyceae) in the open Pacific Ocean, a gymnodinioid dinoflagellate with an endoskeleton

    Article • Chinese Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, February 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Fernando Gomez

  73. Two High-Nutrient Low-Chlorophyll phytoplankton assemblages: the tropical central Pacific and the offshore Perú-Chile Current

    Article • Biogeosciences, December 2007, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Fernando Gomez

  74. Unusual diatoms linked to climatic events in the northeastern English Channel

    Article • Journal of Sea Research, November 2007, Elsevier

    Dr Fernando Gomez

  75. Trends on the distribution of ciliates in the open Pacific Ocean

    Article • Acta Oecologica, September 2007, Elsevier

    Dr Fernando Gomez

  76. Kofoidinium, Spatulodinium and other kofoidiniaceans (Noctilucales, Dinophyceae) in the Pacific Ocean

    Article • European Journal of Protistology, July 2007, Elsevier

    Dr Fernando Gomez

  77. The distribution and life cycle of the dinoflagellate Spatulodinium pseudonoctiluca (Dinophyceae, Noctilucales) in the northeastern English Channel

    Article • Comptes Rendus Biologies, March 2007, Elsevier

    Dr Fernando Gomez

  78. On the consortium of the tintinnid Eutintinnus and the diatom Chaetoceros in the Pacific Ocean

    Article • Marine Biology, February 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Fernando Gomez

  79. Biological and chemical characteristics of high-chlorophyll, low-temperature water observed near the Sulu Archipelago

    Article • Deep Sea Research Part II Topical Studies in Oceanography, January 2007, Elsevier

    Dr Fernando Gomez

  80. Endemic and Indo-Pacific plankton in the Mediterranean Sea: a study based on dinoflagellate records

    Article • Journal of Biogeography, February 2006, Wiley

    Dr Fernando Gomez

  81. Leptodiscaceans (Noctilucales, Dinophyceae) from the Pacific Ocean: First records of Petalodinium and Leptodiscus beyond the Mediterranean Sea

    Article • European Journal of Protistology, August 2005, Elsevier

    Dr Fernando Gomez

  82. Distribution of the cyanobacterium Richelia intracellularis as an epiphyte of the diatom Chaetoceros compressus in the western Pacific Ocean

    Article • Journal of Plankton Research, March 2005, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Fernando Gomez

  83. Histioneis (Dinophysiales, Dinophyceae) from the western Pacific Ocean

    Article • Botanica Marina, January 2005, De Gruyter

    Dr Fernando Gomez

  84. Observations on Ceratoperidinium (Dinophyceae) †

    Article • Phycologia, July 2004, International Phycological Society

    Dr Fernando Gomez

  85. An annotated checklist of dinoflagellates in the Black Sea

    Article • Hydrobiologia, April 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Fernando Gomez

  86. New records of Scaphodinium mirabile (Dinophyceae), an unnoticed dinoflagellate in the Pacific Ocean

    Article • Phycological Research, March 2004, Wiley

    Dr Fernando Gomez

  87. Control of the phytoplankton distribution in the Strait of Gibraltar by wind and fortnightly tides

    Article • Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science, March 2004, Elsevier

    Dr Fernando Gomez

  88. New records of Scaphodinium mirabile (Dinophyceae), an unnoticed dinoflagellate in the Pacific Ocean

    Article • Phycological Research, March 2004, Wiley

    Dr Fernando Gomez

  89. New records of Asterodinium Sournia (Brachidiniales, Dinophyceae)

    Article • Nova Hedwigia, November 2003, Schweizerbart

    Dr Fernando Gomez

  90. The role of the exchanges through the Strait of Gibraltar on the budget of elements in the Western Mediterranean Sea: consequences of human-induced modifications

    Article • Marine Pollution Bulletin, June 2003, Elsevier

    Dr Fernando Gomez

  91. Annual microplankton cycles in Villefranche Bay, Ligurian Sea, NW Mediterranean

    Article • Journal of Plankton Research, April 2003, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Fernando Gomez

  92. Checklist of Mediterranean Free-living Dinoflagellates

    Article • Botanica Marina, January 2003, De Gruyter

    Dr Fernando Gomez

  93. Physical–biological coupling in the Strait of Gibraltar

    Article • Deep Sea Research Part II Topical Studies in Oceanography, January 2002, Elsevier

    Dr Fernando Gomez

  94. Small-scale temporal variations in biogeochemical features in the Strait of Gibraltar, Mediterranean side—the role of NACW and the interface oscillation

    Article • Journal of Marine Systems, October 2001, Elsevier

    Dr Fernando Gomez

  95. Distribution and Fluxes of Dissolved Nutrients in the Strait of Gibraltar and its Relationships to Microphytoplankton Biomass

    Article • Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science, October 2000, Elsevier

    Dr Fernando Gomez

  96. Microplankton distribution in the Strait of Gibraltar: coupling between organisms and hydrodynamic structures

    Article • Journal of Plankton Research, April 2000, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Fernando Gomez

  97. Cross-slope variations of dissolved organic carbon in the Gulf of Cadiz, NE Atlantic Ocean (February 1998)

    Article • Marine Ecology Progress Series, January 1999, Inter-Research Science Center

    Dr Fernando Gomez