African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Karenia bidigitata Haywood & Steidinger, 2004

AfReMaS name details

Karenia bidigitata Haywood & Steidinger, 2004

AphiaID

246854 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:246854)

Classification

Status

unaccepted (synonym)

Accepted name

Karenia bicuneiformis Botes, Sym & Pitcher, 2003

Rank

Species

Parent

Karenia G.Hansen & Moestrup, 2000

Original name

Karenia bidigitata Haywood & Steidinger, 2004

Environment

marine

Original description

Haywood, A. J.; Steidinger, K. A.; Truby, E. W.; Bergquist, P. R.; Bergquist, P. L.; Adamson, J.; Mackenzie, L. (2004). Comparative morphology and molecular phylogenetic analysis of three new species of the genus Karenia (Dinophyceae) from New Zealand. Journal of Phycology. 40(1), 165-179., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0022-3646.2004.02-149.x [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). Karenia bidigitata Haywood & Steidinger, 2004. Accessed through: Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2025) African Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=246854 on 2026-10-16

Regional species database citation

Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2026). African Register of Marine Species. Karenia bidigitata Haywood & Steidinger, 2004. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=246854 on 2026-10-16

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2007-10-17 15:07:21Z

created

db_admin

2008-11-21 06:40:06Z

changed

Moestrup, Øjvind

2010-12-13 10:09:16Z

changed

Guiry, Michael D.

2015-06-26 12:00:51Z

changed

db_admin

[taxonomic tree] [clear cache]

original description Haywood, A. J.; Steidinger, K. A.; Truby, E. W.; Bergquist, P. R.; Bergquist, P. L.; Adamson, J.; Mackenzie, L. (2004). Comparative morphology and molecular phylogenetic analysis of three new species of the genus Karenia (Dinophyceae) from New Zealand. Journal of Phycology. 40(1), 165-179., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0022-3646.2004.02-149.x [details]

basis of record Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2026). 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 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 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]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Published in AlgaeBase

To Barcode of Life
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Karenia bidigitata)
To GenBank (12 nucleotides; 3 proteins)