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HABs taxon details

Prymnesium parvum N.Carter, 1937 
AphiaID: 160564

Classification: Biota > Chromista > Hacrobia > Haptophyta > Prymnesiophyceae > Prymnesiales > Prymnesiaceae > Prymnesium
Status accepted
Record
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Rank Species
Parent Prymnesium Massart, 1920
Sources  original description: Carter N. 1937. New or interesting algae from brackish water. Arch. Protistemk. 90: 1-68. [details]

additional source: Igarashi T., Satake M. & Yasumoto T. 1999. Structures and partial stereochemical assignments for prymnesin-1 and prymnesin-2: potent hemolytic and ichthyotoxic glycosides isolated from the red tide alga Prymnesium parvum. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 121: 8499-8511. [details]

additional source: Kaartvedt S., Johnsen T.M., Aksnes D.L & Lie U. 1991. Occurrence of the toxic phytoflagellate Prymnesium parvum and associated fish mortality in a Norwegian fjord system. Can. J. Fish. Aquat Sci. 48: 2316-2323. [details]

additional source: Moestrup Ø. 1994. Economic aspects: ’blooms’, nuisance species, and toxins. In: The Haptophyte Algae (Ed. by J.C. Green & B.S.C. Leadbeater), pp. 265-285. Clarendon Press, Oxford. [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]

additional source: Algaebase, available online at http://www.algaebase.org [details]

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 Forma Prymnesium parvum f. patelliferum (J.C.Green, D.J.Hibberd, & R.N.Pienaar) A.Larsen, 1999
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution type locality: Wright Island [details]
Links Published in AlgaeBase Logo AlgaeBase
To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (17 publications)
To Dyntaxa
To GenBank (23509 nucleotides; 24 proteins)
To PESI
To ITIS
Note  Harmful effect: Mortality of fish, tadpoles and gill-breathing invertebrates. For effects of toxin on microalgae, see Skovgaard, A. & Hansen, P.J. 2003. Food uptake on the harmful alga Prymnesium parvum mediated by excreted toxins. Limnol. Oceanogr. 48: 1161-1166. [details]
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Prymnesium parvum
Prymnesium parvum
added on 2010-10-12 - author: Larsen, Jacob ()
qualitystatus: checked by Larsen, Jacob on 2010-10-12 11:44:58
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:160564
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2005-06-17 10:15:26Z  created  Cuvelier, Daphne
2008-11-21 08:21:07Z  changed  Moestrup, Øjvind
  
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  Citation: Moestrup, Ø. (2013). Prymnesium parvum N.Carter, 1937. In: Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2013). AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway (taxonomic information republished from AlgaeBase with permission of M.D. Guiry). Accessed through: 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) (2013) IOC-UNESCO Taxonomic Reference List of Harmful Micro Algae at http://www.marinespecies.org/hab/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=160564 on 2013-06-19
  

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