Black Sea Phytoplankton checklist

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Alexandrium catenella

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Alexandrium catenella (Whedon & Kofoid) Balech in D.M.Anderson, A.W.White, & D.G.Baden 1985
= Gonyaulax catenella Whedon & Kofoid 1936 (basionym)
= Gonyaulax catenella Whedon & Kofoid 1936; Protogonyaulax catenella (Whedon & Kofoid) Taylor 1979 (other synonyms)

Classification

Chromista (Kingdom) > Myzozoa (Phylum) > Dinophyceae (Class) > Gonyaulacales (Order) > Gonyaulacaceae (Family) > Alexandrium (Genus)

WoRMS: 231873

Properties

Environment: marine
Harmful effect: Producer of paralytic shellfish poisoning toxins and fish mass mortality causative substance.
(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=231873 on 2010-10-15)
Bioluminescence:Sweeny, 1963 (Pacific Ocean, as Gonyaulax catenella); Poupin, J.P., A.S. Cussatlegras & P. Geistdoerfer, 1999 (Atlantic Ocean); C.L.J. Marcinko et al., 2013

Occurrence

  References
Black Sea
Bulgaria S. Moncheva(IO-BAS), 2010
Geogria
Romania
Russia
Turkey
Ukraine


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)



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Last revision on 20-05-2013

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