HABs taxon details
original description
Lundholm, N.; Hasle, G. R.; Fryxell, G. A.; Hargraves, P. E. (2002). Morphology, phylogeny and taxonomy of species within the Pseudo-nitzschia americana complex (Bacillariophyceae) with descriptions of two new species, Pseudo-nitzschia brasiliana and Pseudo-nitzschia linea. <em>Phycologia.</em> 41(5), 480-497., available online at https://doi.org/10.2216/i0031-8884-41-5-480.1 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From regional or thematic species database
Distribution P. brasiliana seem to be widely distributed in warm temperate, subtropical and Tropical waters. It has e.g. been found in Tunisian Bizerte Lagoon, Spanish Mediterranean, Waters off Brazil, Gulf of Mexico, Gulf of Panama, Gulf of California, waters off Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, South Korea, China [details]
Harmful effect Strains from Tunisian Waters have been shown to produce domoic acid (11.4 ng DA per L/ 8.93 fg per cell) [details]
Identification P. brasiliana differs from most Pseudo-nitzschia species because of the almost rectangular valve shape. It differs from the similar P. americana and P. linea by having similar density of interstriae and fibulae.
Verified accession numbers:
LSU rDNA: AF469672-5
ITS rDNA: DQ062662 [details]
Toxicology Strains from Tunisian Waters have been shown to produce domoic acid (11.4 ng DA per L/ 8.93 fg per cell) [details]
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