African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Alexandrium taylorii Balech, 1994

WRiMS taxon details

Alexandrium taylorii Balech, 1994

AphiaID

614599 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:614599)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Alexandrium Halim, 1960

Original name

Alexandrium taylorii Balech, 1994

Synonymised names

Alexandrium taylori Balech, 1994 · unaccepted

Environment

marine

Original description

Balech, E. (1994). Three new species of the genus Alexandrium (Dinoflagellata). Trans. Am. Microsc. Soc. 113: 216-220. [details] Available for editors

Taxonomic citation

Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2025). AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway (taxonomic information republished from AlgaeBase with permission of M.D. Guiry). Alexandrium taylorii Balech, 1994. Accessed through: Costello, M. J.; Ahyong, S.; Bieler, R.; Boudouresque, C.; Desiderato, A.; Downey, R.; Galil, B. S.; Gollasch, S.; Hutchings, P.; Kamburska, L.; Katsanevakis, S.; Kupriyanova, E.; Lejeusne, C.; Ma, K. C. K.; Marchini, A.; Occhipinti, A.; Pagad, S.; Panov, V. E.; Poore, G. C. B.; Rewicz, T.; Robinson, T. B.; Rius, M.; Sobczyk, R.; Stern, N.; Turon, X.; Valls Domedel, G.; Verleye, T.; Vieira, L. M.; Willan, R. C.; Yeo Chong Jinn, D.; Zhan, A. (2025) World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS) at: https://www.marinespecies.org/introduced/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=614599 on 2025-06-01

Thematic species database citation

Costello, M. J.; Ahyong, S.; Bieler, R.; Boudouresque, C.; Desiderato, A.; Downey, R.; Galil, B. S.; Gollasch, S.; Hutchings, P.; Kamburska, L.; Katsanevakis, S.; Kupriyanova, E.; Lejeusne, C.; Ma, K. C. K.; Marchini, A.; Occhipinti, A.; Pagad, S.; Pino, L.; Poore, G. C. B.; Rewicz, T.; Rius, M.; Robinson, T. B.; Sobczyk, R.; Stępień, A.; Turon, X.; Valls Domedel, G.; Verleye, T.; Vieira, L. M.; Willan, R. C.; Zhan, A. (2025). World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS). Alexandrium taylorii Balech, 1994. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/introduced/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=614599 on 2025-06-01

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2012-09-03 10:56:51Z

created

Guiry, Michael D.

2015-06-26 12:00:51Z

changed

db_admin

[taxonomic tree]

original description Balech, E. (1994). Three new species of the genus Alexandrium (Dinoflagellata). Trans. Am. Microsc. Soc. 113: 216-220. [details] Available for editors

basis of record Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2025). AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. searched on YYYY-MM-DD., available online at http://www.algaebase.org [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] Available for editors

toxicology source Tillmann, U.; Krock, B.; Wietkamp, S.; Beran, A. (2020). A Mediterranean Alexandrium taylorii (Dinophyceae) strain produces goniodomin A and lytic compounds but not Paralytic Shellfish Toxins. Toxins. 12(9): 564., available online at https://doi.org/10.3390/toxins12090564 [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

Published in AlgaeBase

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Alexandrium taylori Balech, 1994)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Alexandrium taylorii)
To GenBank (25 nucleotides; 0 proteins) (from synonym Alexandrium taylori Balech, 1994)
To GenBank (25 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To PESI (from synonym Alexandrium taylori Balech, 1994)