• Zygabikodinium lenticulatum: Loeblich Jr.e Loeblich III (1970)
• Preperidinium paulseni : (Mangin) Mangin
• Peridinium paulsenii: Mangin (1911)
• Peridinium meunierii: Pavillard (1912)
• Peridinium lenticulum: Mangin (1911)
• Glenodinium lenticula f. minor: Schiller (1937)
• Diplopsalis minor : (Paulsen) Lindemann (1927)
• Diplopsalis lenticula f. minor : Paulsen (1907)
• Diplopeltopsis minor : Pavillard (1913)

The cell is thecate,solitary, from small to medium dimensions, from circular to oval in shape. The cell surface is covered in a theca that can be decorated with pores. the apical plate 1’ is narrow and a smaller intercalary plate is found to the left.  The circular cingulum divides the cell into two equal parts: the epitheca and hypotheca. Absent choloplasts.

Cosmopolitan.

Distribution: as Diplopsalis lenticula f. minor: Europe: Spain (Alvárez Cobelas, 1984).

As Zygabikodinium lenticulatum: Europe: Britain (Parke & Dixon, 1976), Norway (Naustvoll, 2001); Atlantic Islands: Canary Islands (Gil-Rodríguez et al., 2003).

As Preperidinium meunieri: North America: Massachusetts (Gribble & Anderson, 2006, Gribble & Anderson, 2007); Antarctic and the Sub-Antarctic islands: Antarctica (McMinn & Scott, 2005).

Check-list of British marine algae - third revision., Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 56, Parke M., Dixon P.S., 1976, 527-594.

Catálogo de las algas continentales españolas. II. Craspedophyceae, Cryptophyceae, Chrysophyceae, Dinophyceae, Euglenophyceae, Haptophyceae, Phaeophyceae, Rhodophyceae, Xanthophyceae., Acta Bot. Malacitana 9:, Alvárez Cobelas M., 1984, 27-40

Dinoflagellates. In: Antarctic marine protists., (Scott, F.J. e Marchant, H.J. Eds)Canberra & Hobart: Australian Biological Resources Study; Australian Antarctic Division., McMinn A. e Scott F.J., 2005, 202-250.

High intraindividual, intraspecific, and interspecific variability in large subunit ribosomal DNA in the heterotrophic dinoflagellates Protoperidinium, Diplopsalis, and Preperidinium (Dinophyceae)., Phycologia 46(3):, Gribble K.E., Anderson D.M., 2007, 315-324

Molecular phylogeny of the heterotrophic dinoflagellates, Photoperidinium, Diplopsalis and Preperidinium (Dinophyceae), inferred from large subunit rDNA., Journal of Phycology 42:, Gribble K.E., Anderson D.M., 2006, 1081-1095

Prey size spectra in naked heterotrophic dinoflagellates., Phycologia 39:, Naustvoll L.-J., 2001, 448-455

Proctoctista. In: Lista de especies marinas de Canarias (algas, hongos, plantas y animales). (Moro, L., Martín, J.L., Garrido, M.J. & Izquierdo, I. Eds), Las Palmas: Consejería de Política Territorial y Medio Ambiente del Gobierno de Canarias., Gil-Rodríguez M.C., Haroun R., Ojeda Rodríguez A., Berecibar Zugasti E., Domínguez Santana P., Herrera Morán B., 2003, 5 - 30