WoRMS taxon details
Alexandrium catenella (Whedon & Kofoid) Balech, 1985
AphiaID: 231873
AphiaID: 231873
| Classification: Biota > Chromista (Kingdom) > Harosa (Subkingdom) > Alveolata (Infrakingdom) > Myzozoa (Phylum) > Dinozoa (Subphylum) > Dinoflagellata (Infraphylum) > Peridinea (Class) > Gonyaulacoidia (Subclass) > Gonyaulacida (Order) > Gonyaulacaceae (Family) > Alexandrium (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Alexandrium Halim, 1960 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Gessnerium catenella (Whedon & Kofoid) F.J.R.Taylor, 1979 Gonyaulax catenella Whedon & Kofoid, 1936 (basionym) Gonyaulax washingtonensis Hsu, 1967 (synonym) Protogonyaulax catenella (Whedon & Kofoid) Taylor, 1979 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Whedon W.F. & Kofoid C.A. 1936. Dinoflagellates of the San Francisco region. I. On the skeletal morphology of two new species, Gonyaulax catenella and G. acatenella. Univ. Calif. Publ. Zool. 41: 25-34. [details] basis of record: Gómez, F., 2005. A list of free-living dinoflagellate species in the world’s oceans. Acta Bot. Croat. 64 (1), 129-212. [details] [full text] basis of record: Algaebase, available online at http://www.algaebase.org [details] additional source: Tomas, C.R. (Ed.) (1997). Identifying marine phytoplankton. Academic Press: San Diego, CA [etc.] (USA). ISBN 0-12-693018-X. XV, 858 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Moestrup, Ø., Akselman, R., Cronberg, G., Elbraechter, M., Fraga, S., Halim, Y., Hansen, G., Hoppenrath, M., Larsen, J., Lundholm, N., Nguyen, L. N., Zingone, A. (Eds) (2009 onwards). IOC-UNESCO Taxonomic Reference List of Harmful Micro Algae., available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/HAB [details] new combination reference: Balech E. 1985. The genus Alexandrium or Gonyaulax of the tamarensis group. In: Toxic Dinoflagellates (Ed. by D.M. Anderson, A.W. White & D.G. Baden), pp. 33-38. Elsevier, New York. [details] toxicology source: Burke J.M., Marchisotto J., McLaughlin J.J.A. & Provasoli L. 1960. Analysis of the toxin produced by Gonyaulax catenella in axenic culture. Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 90: 837-842. [details] toxicology source: Bates H.A., Kostriken R. & Rapoport H. 1978. The occurrence of saxitoxin and other toxins in various dinoflagellates. Toxicon 16: 595-601. [details] toxicology source: Ogata T. & Kodama M. 1986. Ichthyotoxicity found in cultured media of Protogonyaulax spp. Mar. Biol. 95: 217-220. [details] toxicology source: Kim C.-H., Sako Y. & Ishida Y. 1993. Variation of toxin production and composition in axenic cultures of Alexandrium catenella and A. tamarense. Nippon Suisan Gakkaishi 59: 633-639. [details] | |||||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | type locality: San Francisco [details] Mediterranean Sea [details] Tunisian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] | |||||||||||||||||||
| Links | Published in AlgaeBase  To Barcode of Life (7 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (10152 nucleotides; 41 proteins) To Marine Species Identification Portal To ITIS | |||||||||||||||||||
| Note |
Harmful effect: Producer of paralytic shellfish poisoning toxins and fish mass mortality causative substance. [details] | |||||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:231873 | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Guiry, Michael D.; Moestrup, Ø. (2013). Alexandrium catenella (Whedon & Kofoid) Balech, 1985. In: Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2013). AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway (taxonomic information republished from AlgaeBase with permission of M.D. Guiry). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=231873 on 2013-06-19 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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