Alexandrium catenella
creator: Renders, Kristel
creator: Camba Reu, Cibran
creator: Moestrup, Øjvind
creator: Fraga, Santiago
creator: Guiry, Michael D.
date: 2026-08-30
language: en
license: https://www.algaebase.org/copyright/
publisher: World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS)
relation: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php
subject: Alexandrium catenella (Whedon & Kofoid) Balech, 1985
type: ScientificName
bibliographic citation: Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2026). AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway (taxonomic information republished from AlgaeBase with permission of M.D. Guiry). Alexandrium catenella (Whedon & Kofoid) Balech, 1985. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=231873 on 2026-08-30
created: 2006-07-13T12:06:39Z
modified: 2017-03-02T14:51:38Z
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rights holder: WoRMS Editorial Board
scientific name: Alexandrium catenella (Whedon & Kofoid) Balech, 1985
class: Dinophyceae
family: Pyrocystaceae
genus: Alexandrium
kingdom: Chromista
name published in: Balech, E. (1985). The genus Alexandrium or Gonyaulax of the tamarensis group. In: D.M. Anderson, A.W. White and D.G. Baden (Eds.) Toxic Dinoflagellates. New York: Elsevier. P. 33–38.
name published in: Whedon W.F. & Kofoid C.A. 1936. Dinoflagellates of the San Francisco region. I. On the skeletal morphology of two new species, Gonyaulax catenella and G. acatenella. Univ. Calif. Publ. Zool. 41: 25-34.
name published in year: 1985
name published in year: 1936
order: Gonyaulacales
parent name usage ID: 109470
phylum: Myzozoa
scientific name authorship: (Whedon & Kofoid) Balech, 1985
specific epithet: catenella
taxon rank: Species
taxonomic status: accepted