Distribution: in Europe: Britain (Parke & Dixon 1976), France (Tunin-Ley et al. 2007), Ireland (McDermott & Raine 2006); in Australia and New Zealand: New Zealand (Chang et al. 2012).

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.

Phylum Myzozoa: dinoflagellates, perkinsids, ellobiopsids, sporozoans. In: New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume Three. Kingdoms Bacteria, Protozoa, Chromista, Plantae, Fungi., Gordon, D.P. Eds, Chang F.H., Charleston W.A.G., McKenna P.B., Clowes C.D., Wilson G.J. e Boady P.A., 2012, 175-216

Annual cycle and diversity of species and infraspecific taxa of Ceratium (Dinophyceae) in the Ligurian Sea, northwest Mediterranean., Journal of Phycology 43:, Tunin-Ley A., Labat J.P., Gasparini S., Mousseau L., Lemée R., 2007, 1149-1163

The dinoflagellate genus Ceratium in Irish shelf seas., Galway: Martin Ryan Institute., McDermott G., Raine R., 2006, pp. [viii] + 1-86