Prorocentrum concavum Fukuyo, 1981 
AphiaID: 232461

Classification: Biota > Chromista > Harosa > Alveolata > Myzozoa > Dinozoa > Dinoflagellata > Peridinea > Peridinoidia > Prorocentrida > Prorocentraceae > Prorocentrum

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Species
Parent		Prorocentrum Ehrenberg, 1834
Synonymised taxa		Prorocentrum arabianum Morton & Faust, 2002 (synonym)
Sources		original description: Fukuyo Y. 1981. Taxonomical study on benthic dinoflagellates collected in coral reefs. Bull. Jap. Soc. Sci. Fish. 47: 967-978. [details] [full text] additional source: Aikman K.E., Tindall D.R. & Morton S.L. 1993. Physiology and potency of the dinoflagellate Prorocentrum hoffmanianum during the complete growth cycle. In: Toxic Phytoplankton Blooms in the Sea (Ed. by T.J. Smayda & Y. Shimizu), pp. 463-468, Elsevier, New York. [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] from synonym: Morton S.L., Faust M.A., Fairey E.A. & Moeller P.D.R. 2002. Morphology and toxicology of Prorocentrum arabianum sp. nov., (Dinophyceae) a toxic planktonic dinoflagellate from the Gulf of Oman, Arabian Sea. Harmful Algae 1: 393-400.  [details] [view taxon] toxicology source: Hu T., deFreitas A.S.W., Doyle J., Jackson D., Marr J., Nixon E., Pleasance S., Quilliam M.A., Walter J.A. & Wright J.L.C. 1993. New DSP toxin derivatives isolated from toxic mussels and the dinoflagellates, Prorocentrum lima and Prorocentrum concavum. In: Toxic Phytoplankton Blooms in the Sea (Ed. by T.J. Smayda & Y. Shimizu), pp. 507-512. Elsevier, New York. [details] toxicology source: Quod J.P., Turquet J., Diogene G. & Fessard V. 1995. Screening of extracts of dinoflagellates from coral reefs (Reunion Island, SW Indian Ocean), and their biological activities. In: Harmful Marine Algal Blooms (Ed. by P. Lassus, G. Arzul, E. Erard-Le Denn, P. Gentien & C. Marcaillou-Le Baut). pp. 815-820. Lavoisier, Paris. [details]
Environment		marine
Distribution		type locality: Gulf of Oman (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] type locality: Ryukyu Islands [details]
Links		Published in AlgaeBase  To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 0 proteins) To Marine Species Identification Portal To ITIS
Note		Harmful effect: The toxicity of this species is questionable. Cultures identified as P. concavum Fukuyo were subsequently found to be Prorocentrum maculosum (see Zhou & Fritz 1993, Phycologia 32: 444-450), and as P. hoffmannianum, strain SIU 882a (see Aikman et al. 1993). According to Fukuyo (pers. comm. to Elbrächter, Nov. 1999), toxins have not been analysed unequivocally from Prorocentrum concavum. Quod et al. (1995) found that crude methanol extract are not toxic to mice. [details]
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:232461
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 2006-07-24 11:41:36Z   created   Estensoro, Itziar 2008-11-21 08:21:07Z   changed   Moestrup, Øjvind
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		Citation: Moestrup, Ø. (2013). Prorocentrum concavum Fukuyo, 1981. 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=232461 on 2013-05-22