Alexandrium tamarense

From Black Sea Phytoplankton checklist

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Alexandrium tamarense (Lebour, 1925) Balech, 1985

Classification

Protozoa (Kingdom) > Dinoflagellata (Phylum) > Dinophyceae (Class) > Gonyaulacales (Order) > Gonyaulacaceae (Family) > Alexandrium (Genus)

WoRMS: 109714

Properties

Environment: marine
Harmful effect: Producer of paralytic shellfish poisoning toxins. In a few cases reported to cause fishkills.
(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) (2010) IOC-UNESCO Taxonomic Reference List of Harmful Micro Algae at http://www.marinespecies.org/hab/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=109714 on 2010-10-15)
Bioluminescence:Poupin, J.P., A.S. Cussatlegras & P. Geistdoerfer, 1999 (Atlantic Ocean);

Occurrence

	References
Black Sea	Mikaelyan A.S. et al., 2008
Bulgaria	S. Moncheva(IO-BAS), 2010
Geogria
Romania
Russia	O.Yasakova, 2010 (Novorossiysk); Vershinin A.O., Moruchkov A.A., Leighfield T. et al., 2005
Turkey
Ukraine	Nesterova D.A., Terenko L.M., Terenko G.V., 2006 (NW)

Cell volume

	Minimum	Average	Maximum	Database
1	1810	11220	25000	Cell volumes of phytoplankton of the Black Sea A.S.Mikaelyan, L.G.Senichkina, L.A.Pautova, L.V.Georgieva, V.Dyakonov
2				Bryantseva Yu., 2000. Changes in structural characteristic of phytoplankton in the Black Sea
3				Dereziuk, N., 2008. List of Phytoplankton Species Observed in the Water Area near the Zmiinyi Island in 2004-2007
4				Bryantseva Yu., 2010. Sevastopol Bay phytoplankton monitoring database 2008 -2009
5				Сеничкина Л.Г., 1983. Фитопланктон северо-западной части Черного моря в зимний период 1979.
6				Нестерова Д. А., 2003. Фитопланктон западной части Черного моря в летний период 1987.

* (volumes are in cubic microns), values extracted from database

Volume and surface area calculation

	Shape
Simple shape
K(flattening factor)
More accurate shape	-

Hillebrand et al., 1999 - ellipsoid (Hillebrand, H., Dürselen, C. D., Kirschtel, D., Pollingher, D. and Zohary, T. (1999) Biovolume calculation for pelagic and benthic microalgae. J. Phycol., 35, 403–424)

Appearance in checklists

1886

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2010

1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	33	34	35	36	38	49	54	55	56	57
	x									x	x															x	x ³³

58	63	67	68	72	73	74	75	77	78	84	85	86	87	88	89	92	93	94	99	100	101	102	103	105	108	109	110	116	117	118	119	120	123	125

33 - as Alexandrium cf. tamarense;

References

Krakhmalny A. F., 2011a. Dinophyta of Ukraine (illustrated book for identification). Kiev:Alterpres, 444 pp.

Nesterova D.A., Terenko L.M., Terenko G.V., 2006. In: North-Western part of the Black Sea: biology and ecology, Naukova dumka, Kiev: 557-576.

Vershinin A.O., Moruchkov A.A., Leighfield T. et al., 2005. Potentially toxic algae in northeast Black sea coastal phytoplankton in 2000-2002. Oceanology, Vol. 45(2): 240-248.^*
* - as Alexandrium cf. tamarense

Yasakova_O._N.,_2013. The annual dynamics of the phytoplankton in the Novorossiysk bay in 2007 Marine ecological journal, Vol. 12(1): 92 - 102.

	List based on literature analysis
	List extracted from database
	List extracted from published paper, which is based on monitoring(scientific) research of scientist(s) and includes analysis of real collected data
	Personal list, based on monitoring(scientific research) of scientist (not published as article)
	Identification book

Last revision on 20-05-2013

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 | harmfulref = 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) (2010) IOC-UNESCO Taxonomic Reference List of Harmful Micro Algae at http://www.marinespecies.org/hab/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=109714 on 2010-10-15
 | biolumrefs = Poupin, J.P., A.S. Cussatlegras & P. Geistdoerfer, 1999 (Atlantic Ocean);
+| env =  marine
+| envref= WoRMS
 }}