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Cochlodinium polykrikoides Margalef, 1961 
AphiaID: 232650

Classification: Biota > Protozoa (Kingdom) > Myzozoa (Phylum) > Dinophyceae (Class) > Gymnodiniales (Order) > Gymnodiniaceae (Family) > Cochlodinium (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Cochlodinium Schütt, 1896
Synonymised
taxa
  Cochlodinium heterolobatum Silva, 1967 (synonym)
Sources  original description: Margalef R. 1961. Hidrografía y fitoplancton de un área marina de la costa meridional de Puerto Rico. Invest. Pesq. 18: 33-96. [details]

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] [full text]

additional source: Kim H.G. 1998. Cochlodinium polykrikoides blooms in Korean coastal waters and their mitigation. In: Harmful Algae (Ed. by B. Reguera, J. Blanco, M. L. Fernández & T. Wyatt), pp. 227-228. Xunta de Galicia and Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO, Santiago de Compostela. [details]

Environment marine
Distribution type locality: Bahía Fosforescénte [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) (from synonym) [details]
Links To GenBank
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To ITIS
Notes  Harmful effect: Serious fishkiller [details]

Synonymy: Gómez (2005) is not sure whether or not C. polykrikoides is synonym of C. catenatum [details]
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Cochlodinium polykrikoides
Cochlodinium polykrikoides
added on 2009-10-23 - author: Hansen, Gert
qualitystatus: checked by Hansen, Gert on 2009-10-23 14:51:30
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2006-07-25 06:36:34 GMT  created  Camba Reu, Cibran
2008-11-20 10:21:18 GMT  checked  Moestrup, Øjvind
  
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  Citation: Moestrup, Ø. (2009). Cochlodinium polykrikoides Margalef, 1961. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=232650 on 2010-02-09
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