WoRMS taxon details
Nomenclatureoriginal description
Adachi R. & Fukuyo Y. 1979. The thecal structure of a marine toxic dinoflagellate Gambierdiscus toxicus gen. et sp. nov. collected in a ciguatera endemic area. Bull. Jap. Soc. Sci. Fish. 45: 67-71., available online at https://doi.org/10.2331/suisan.45.67 [details] 
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] 
Ecologyecology source
Leles, S. G.; Mitra, A.; Flynn, K. J.; Tillmann, U.; Stoecker, D.; Jeong, H. J.; Burkholder, J.; Hansen, P. J.; Caron, D. A.; Glibert, P. M.; Hallegraeff, G.; Raven, J. A.; Sanders, R. W.; Zubkov, M. (2019). Sampling bias misrepresents the biogeographical significance of constitutive mixotrophs across global oceans. <em>Global Ecology and Biogeography.</em> 28(4): 418-428., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12853 [details] Available for editors [request]
ecology source
Mitra, A.; Caron, D. A.; Faure, E.; Flynn, K. J.; Leles, S. G.; Hansen, P. J.; McManus, G. B.; Not, F.; Do Rosario Gomes, H.; Santoferrara, L. F.; Stoecker, D. K.; Tillmann, U. (2023). The Mixoplankton Database (MDB): Diversity of photo‐phago‐trophic plankton in form, function, and distribution across the global ocean. <em>Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology.</em> 70(4)., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/jeu.12972 [details] 
ecology source
Faust, M.A. (1998). Mixotrophy in tropical benthic dinoflagellates. In: Reguera, B., Blanco, J., Fernandez, L., Wyatt, T. (Eds.), Harmful Algae. Proceedings of the VIII International Conference on Harmful Algae, Vigo, Spain, 1997, Xunta de Galicia and Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO, Paris, France, pp. 390–393. [details]
Otheradditional source
Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2025). 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
Murata M., Legrand A.M., Ishibashi Y., Fukui M. & Yasumoto T. 1990. Structures and configurations of ciguatoxin from the moray eel <i>Gymnothorax javanicus</i> and its likely precursor from the dinoflagellate <i>Gambierdiscus toxicus</i>. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 112: 4380-4386. [details]
additional source
Satake M., Murata M. & Yasumoto T. 1993. The structure of CTX3C, a ciguatoxin congener isolated from cultured <i>Gambierdiscus toxicus</i>. Tetrahedron Lett. 34: 1975-1978. [details]
additional source
Yasumoto T. & Satake M. 1996. Chemistry, etiology and determination methods of ciguatera toxins. J. Toxicol. 15: 91-107.
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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
Litaker, R.W., Vandersea, M.W., Faust, M.A., Kibler, S.R., Chinain, M., Holmes, M.J., Holland, W.C. & Tester, P.A. 2009. Taxonomy of <i>Gambierdiscus</i> including four new species, <i>Gambierdiscus caribaeus</i>, <i>Gambierdiscus carolianus</i>, <i>Gambierdiscus carpenteri</i> and <i>Gambierdiscus ruetzleri</i> (Gonyaulacales, Dinophyceae). Phycologia, 48: 344-90 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source
Lewis R.J. 2001. The changing face of ciguatera. Toxicon 39: 97-106., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/s0041-0101(00)00161-6 [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
Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source
Chang, F.H.; Charleston, W.A.G.; McKenna, P.B.; Clowes, C.D.; Wilson, G.J.; Broady, P.A. (2012). Phylum Myzozoa: dinoflagellates, perkinsids, ellobiopsids, sporozoans, in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2012). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 3. Kingdoms Bacteria, Protozoa, Chromista, Plantae, Fungi. pp. 175-216. [details]
From editor or global species database
LSID urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:44999 [details]From regional or thematic species database
Description Lens-shaped, anterio-posteriorly compressed. Thecal surface covered with evenly distributed fine pores. Apical pore plate oval containing fish-hook shaped pore. 2’ largest apical plate, precingular 1’ smallest. 1p plate broad, hatchet-shaped.
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Harmful effect The taxonomy of the genus Gambierdiscus has undergone drastic changes and many reports of toxicity using the name Gambierdiscus toxicus have been shown to refer to other species. G. toxicus is, however, toxic, material with significant maitotoxicity as assessed by mouse bioassay has been found in Tahiti Lagoon (Kohli et al. 2015). Toxic material therefore probably also occurs elsewhere. [details]
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