African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Dinophysis caudata Saville-Kent, 1881

ERMS taxon details

Dinophysis caudata Saville-Kent, 1881

toxic pair

AphiaID

109612 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:109612)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Dinophysis Ehrenberg, 1839

Original name

Dinophysis caudata Saville-Kent, 1881

Synonymised names

Dinophysis diegensis Kofoid, 1907 · unaccepted (synonym)

Environment

marine, brackish, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Saville-Kent W. 1880/82. A manual of the infusoria. London, Bogue 1: 460-461. [details]

Kent, W.S. (1880-1881). A manual of the infusoria, including a description of all known flagellate, ciliate, and tentaculiferous protozoa, British and foreign and an account of the organization and affinities of the sponges. Vol. I pp. 289-720. London., available online at https://archive.org/details/manualofinfusori18081kent [details]

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). Dinophysis caudata Saville-Kent, 1881. Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025) European Register of Marine Species at: https://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=109612 on 2025-07-19

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025). European Register of Marine Species. Dinophysis caudata Saville-Kent, 1881. Accessed at: http://www.marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=109612 on 2025-07-19

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

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2008-11-20 10:21:18Z

checked

Moestrup, Øjvind

2015-06-26 12:00:51Z

changed

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original description Saville-Kent W. 1880/82. A manual of the infusoria. London, Bogue 1: 460-461. [details]

original description Kent, W.S. (1880-1881). A manual of the infusoria, including a description of all known flagellate, ciliate, and tentaculiferous protozoa, British and foreign and an account of the organization and affinities of the sponges. Vol. I pp. 289-720. London., available online at https://archive.org/details/manualofinfusori18081kent [details]

original description (of Dinophysis diegensis Kofoid, 1907) Kofoid, C.A. (1907). Dinoflagellata of the San Diego Region, III. Description of new species. University of California publications. Zoology. 3: 299-304. (look up in RoR) [details]

context source (HKRMS) Hodgkiss, I. J.; Chan, B. S. S. (1987). Phytoplankton dynamics in Tolo Harbour. In: Morton B, editor. Asian Marine Biology 4.Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong. 103-112. [details]

context source (Bermuda) Sterrer, W. (1986). Marine fauna and flora of Bermuda: a systematic guide to the identification of marine organisms. Wiley-Interscience Publication. Wiley. 742 pp (Nemertini part). [details] Available for editors

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]

additional source 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 Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [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., available online at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780126930184 [details]

additional source Martin, J. L.; LeGresley, M. M.; Strain P. M.; Clement, P. (1999). Phytoplankton monitoring in the southwest Bay of Fundy during 1993-96. Canadian Technical Report of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 2265. 4: 1-132. [details]

additional source Abé, T.H. (1967). The armoured Dinoflagellata: II. Prorocentridae and Dinophysidae (B) - Dinophysis and its allied genera. Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory. 2: 37-78. [details] Available for editors

additional source Fukuyo Y., Takano H., Chihara M. & Matsuoka K. 1990. Red tide organisms in Japan – an illustrated taxonomic guide. Uchida Rokakuho, Tokyo. 430 pp. [details]

additional source Karunasagar I., Segar K. & Karunasagar I. 1989. Potentially toxic dinoflagellates in shellfish harvesting areas along the coast of Karnataka State (India). In : Red tide: Biology, Environmental Science, and Toxicology (Ed. by T. Okaichi, D.M. Anderson & T. Nemoto), pp. 65 - 68. Elsevier, New York. [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]

additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp. (look up in RoR) [details] Available for editors

additional source Lakkis, S. (2011). Le phytoplancton marin du Liban (Méditerranée orientale): biologie, biodiversité, biogéographie. Aracne: Roma. ISBN 978-88-548-4243-4. 293 pp. (look up in RoR) [details]

additional source Chang, F.H.; Charleston, W.A.G.; McKenna, P.B.; Clowes, C.D.; Wilson, G.J.; Broady, P.A. (2012). Phylum Myzozoa: dinoflagellates, perkinsids, ellobiopsids, sporozoans, in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2012). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 3. Kingdoms Bacteria, Protozoa, Chromista, Plantae, Fungi. pp. 175-216. [details]

additional source Kofoid, C.A.; Skogsberg, T. (1928). Reports on the scientific results of the expedition to the Eastern Tropical Pacific, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, by the U.S. Fish Commission Steamer "Albatross" from October 1904 to March 1905, Lieut. Commander L.M. Garrett, U.S.N., Commanding. [No.] XXXV. The Dinoflagellata: the Dinophysoidae. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy, at Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass. 51: 1-766., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4365822 [details] Available for editors

additional source Balech, E. (1951). Sobre dos variedades de Dinophysis caudata Kent. Comunic. Zool. Mus. Hist. Nat. Montevideo. 3(60): 1-9. [details] Available for editors

additional source Balech, E. (2002). Dinoflagelados tecados tóxicos en el Cono Sur Americano. In: Sar, E.A., Ferrario, M.E. & Reguera, B. (Eds.). Floraciones Algales Nocivas en el Cono Sur Americano. Instituto Español de Oceanografía. pp. 123-144. [details] Available for editors

additional source Campbell, P.H. (1973). Studies on brackish water phytoplankton. UNC.SG.73.07. pp. 1-406. Chapel Hill: Sea Grant Publications, University of North Carolina. [details] Available for editors

ecology source Nishitani, G.; Nagai, S.; Takano, Y.; Sakiyama, S.; Baba, K.; Kamiyama, T. (2008). Growth characteristics and phylogenetic analysis of the marine dinoflagellate Dinophysis infundibulus (Dinophyceae). Aquatic Microbial Ecology. 52: 209-221., available online at https://doi.org/10.3354/ame01233 [details]

ecology source Nishitani, G.; Nagai, S.; Sakiyama, S.; Kamiyama, T. (2008). Successful cultivation of the toxic dinoflagellate Dinophysis caudata (Dinophyceae). Plankton and Benthos Research. 3(2): 78-85., available online at https://doi.org/10.3800/pbr.3.78 [details]

ecology source Mitra, A.; Caron, D. A.; Faure, E.; Flynn, K. J.; Leles, S. G.; Hansen, P. J.; McManus, G. B.; Not, F.; Do Rosario Gomes, H.; Santoferrara, L. F.; Stoecker, D. K.; Tillmann, U. (2023). The Mixoplankton Database (MDB): Diversity of photo‐phago‐trophic plankton in form, function, and distribution across the global ocean. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology. 70(4)., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/jeu.12972 [details]