WoRMS name details

Alexandrium acatenella (Whedon & Kofoid) Balech, 1985

233407  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:233407)

 unaccepted
Species
marine, fresh, terrestrial
Whedon W.F. & Kofoid C.A. 1936. Dinoflagellates of the San Francisco region. I. On the skeletal morphology of two new species, <i>Gonyaulax catenella</i> and <i>G. acatenella</i>. Univ. Calif. Publ. Zool. 41: 25-34. [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 
Type locality contained in San Francisco  
type locality contained in San Francisco [details]
LSID urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:52033  
LSID urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:52033 [details]

Description The cyst of Alexandrium acatenella is ellipsoidal, colorless and of the smooth-wall type, resembling cysts of A. tamarense...  
Description The cyst of Alexandrium acatenella is ellipsoidal, colorless and of the smooth-wall type, resembling cysts of A. tamarense and A. catenella. The size of the cysts (length: 43-60 µm; width: 22-25 µm), presence of granular material and a red body were also very similar to these species. [details]
Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2024). AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway (taxonomic information republished from AlgaeBase with permission of M.D. Guiry). Alexandrium acatenella (Whedon & Kofoid) Balech, 1985. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=233407 on 2024-03-19
Date
action
by
2006-07-27 06:59:07Z
created
Camba Reu, Cibran
2008-11-17 15:52:57Z
checked
2008-11-21 08:21:07Z
changed
2010-10-27 09:50:34Z
changed
2015-06-26 12:00:51Z
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2022-07-20 08:57:30Z
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original description Whedon W.F. & Kofoid C.A. 1936. Dinoflagellates of the San Francisco region. I. On the skeletal morphology of two new species, <i>Gonyaulax catenella</i> and <i>G. acatenella</i>. Univ. Calif. Publ. Zool. 41: 25-34. [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

context source (Introduced species) Katsanevakis, S.; Bogucarskis, K.; Gatto, F.; Vandekerkhove, J.; Deriu, I.; Cardoso A.S. (2012). Building the European Alien Species Information Network (EASIN): a novel approach for the exploration of distributed alien species data. <em>BioInvasions Records.</em> 1: 235-245., available online at http://easin.jrc.ec.europa.eu [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

basis of record Gómez, F. (2005). A list of free-living dinoflagellate species in the world's oceans. <em>Acta Bot. Croat.</em> 64(1): 129-212. [details]  OpenAccess publication 

additional source Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2023). AlgaeBase. <em>World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway.</em> searched on YYYY-MM-DD., available online at http://www.algaebase.org [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 Steidinger, K. A., M. A. Faust, and D. U. Hernández-Becerril. 2009. Dinoflagellates (Dinoflagellata) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 131–154 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College [details]   

additional source Balech, E. 1995. The Genus <i>Alexandrium</i> Halim (Dinoflagellata). Sherkin Island Marine Station, Sherkin Island, Co. Cork, Ireland, 151. [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

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

new combination reference Balech, E. (1985). The genus <i>Alexandrium</i> or <i>Gonyaulax</i> of the <i>tamarensis</i> group. In: D.M. Anderson, A.W. White and D.G. Baden (Eds.) Toxic Dinoflagellates. New York: Elsevier. P. 33–38. [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

toxicology source Prakash A. & Taylor F.J.R. 1966. A “red water” bloom of <i>Gonyaulax acatenella</i> in the Strait of Georgia and its relation to paralytic shellfish toxicity. J. Fish. Bd. Canada 23: 1265-1270. [details]   
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From editor or global species database
LSID urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:52033 [details]

From regional or thematic species database
Description The cyst of Alexandrium acatenella is ellipsoidal, colorless and of the smooth-wall type, resembling cysts of A. tamarense and A. catenella. The size of the cysts (length: 43-60 µm; width: 22-25 µm), presence of granular material and a red body were also very similar to these species. [details]

Harmful effect It is probably a synonym of Alexandrium catenella (Whedon & Kofoid) Balech, 1985 and hence producer of paralytic shellfish poisoning toxins. [details]

Introduced species vector dispersal in Ukraine (Nation) : Shipping [details]