WoRMS taxon details
Alexandrium peruvianum (Balech & Mendiola) Balech & Tangen, 1985
AphiaID: 233465
AphiaID: 233465
| 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 |
Gonyaulax peruviana Balech & Mendiola (synonym) | ||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Balech, E. & Rojas E. de Mendiola, B. 1977. Un nuevo Gonyaulax productor de hemotalasia en Perú (Protozoa, Dinoflagellata). Neotropica 23:49-54. [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] additional source: 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: Penna, A., Fraga, S., Maso, M., Giacobbe, M. G., Bravo, I., Garces, E., Vila, M., Bertozzini, E., Andreoni, F., Luglie, A. & Vernesi, C. 2008. Phylogenetic relationships among the Mediterranean Alexandrium (Dinophyceae) species based on sequences of 5.8S gene and Internal Transcript Spacers of the rRNA operon. European Journal of Phycology 43:163-78. [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] toxicology source: Franco, J.M., Paz, B., Riobó , P., Pizarro, G., Figueroa, R.I., Fraga, S., & Bravo, I. (2006). First report of the production of spirolides by Alexandrium peruvianum (Dinophyceae) from the Mediterranean Sea. Proceedings of 12th International Conference on Harmful Algae, Copenhagen, Denmark, 4–8 September, 2006., available online at http://www.bi.ku.dk/hab/docs/P&A_Book.pdf [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | Published in AlgaeBase  To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (28 nucleotides; 0 proteins) | ||||||||||
| Note |
Toxic strains: Although it produces red tides in the type locality, no harmful effects were reported. Spirolids were detected in cultured strains from the Mediterranean Sea [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:233465 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: WoRMS (2013). Alexandrium peruvianum (Balech & Mendiola) Balech & Tangen, 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=233465 on 2013-06-19 | |||||||||||
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