HABs taxon details
original description
Cleve P.T. 1900. Plankton from the Red Sea. Öfvers. K. Vetensk.-Akad. Förh. 9: 1025-1038. [details]
context source (HKRMS)
Lam CWY. & Ho KC. (1988). Phytoplankton characteristics of Tolo Harbour. In: Morton B, editor. Asian Marine Biology 6. pp 5-18. Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong. [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]
additional source
Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2022). 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
Marasigan A.N., Sato S., Fukuyo Y. & Kodama M. 2001. Accumulation of a high level of diarrhetic shellfish toxins in the green mussel <i>Perna viridis</i> during a bloom of <i>Dinophysis caudata</i> and <i>Dinophysis miles</i> in Saipan Bay, Panay Island, the Philippines. Fisheries Science 67: 994-996. [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
ecology source
Qiu, D.; Huang, L.; Liu, S.; Lin, S. (2011). Nuclear, Mitochondrial and Plastid Gene Phylogenies of Dinophysis miles (Dinophyceae): Evidence of Variable Types of Chloroplasts. <em>PLoS ONE.</em> 6(12): e29398., available online at https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0029398 [details]
From regional or thematic species database
Additional information Widely distributed in tropical seas.
Toxic strains only reported from the Philippines: Marasigan et al. (2001). [details]
Description Cells very large, anterio-posteriorly elongated with two fairly distinctive long antapical and dorsal projections. Ventral side of hypotheca undulate. Dorsal side concave and smoothly continues to the dorsal projection which runs obliquely backwards. The distal end bends at a right angle, carrying a wing-like unabsorbed remnant of the megacytic zone. Six to eight daughter cells often attach at the remnant after asexual cell division. Posterior projections shorter or longer than, or as long as the dorsal process. Angle between the dorsal and posterior projections 50-90”. It starts at the base of the third rib. Anterior cingular list wide, supported by many ribs, forming a narrow funnel-like structure with very low epitheca on the bottom. Thecal plates thick, round or angular areolated. Length: 125- 150 pm. [details]
Harmful effect Producer of DTX-1 (10 pg/cell) and okadaic acid (5-25 pg/cell), toxins implicated in DSP. Blooms, together with D. caudata, associated with DSP in the Philippines [details]
Identification This species is easily identified by its large cell shape and especially the two projections. [details]
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