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Taxonomic re-examination of the toxic armored dinoflagellate Pyrodinium bahamense Plate 1906: Can morphology or LSU sequencing separate P. bahamense var. compressum from var. bahamense?

Creator:

Mertens, Kenneth Neil, Wolny, Jennifer, Carbonell-Moore, Consuelo, Bogus, Kara, Ellegaard, Marianne, Limoges, Audrey, de Vernal, Anne, Gurdebeke, Pieter, Omura, Takuo, Al-Muftah, Abdulrahman, and Matsuoka, Kazumi

Abstract:

Pyrodinium bahamense Plate 1906 is a tropical to subtropical dinoflagellate that can cause paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP). Based on differences in the morphology of the motile stage, as well as geographic distribution, this species was separated into two varieties, the toxic var. compressum and the non-toxic var. bahamense by Steidinger...

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