Biology:Ostreopsis lenticularis

Short description: Species of dinoflagellate

Ostreopsis lenticularis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Clade:	Diaphoretickes
Clade:	SAR
Clade:	Alveolata
Phylum:	Myzozoa
Superclass:	Dinoflagellata
Class:	Dinophyceae
Order:	Gonyaulacales
Family:	Ostreopsidaceae
Genus:	Ostreopsis
Species:	O. lenticularis
Binomial name
Ostreopsis lenticularis Y.Fukuyo

Ostreopsis lenticularis is a species of dinoflagellate of the family Ostreopsidaceae described in 1981 by Yasuwo Fukuyo.

Distribution

This species is endemic to Tahiti.

References

• Fukuyo Y. 1981. Taxonomical study on benthic dinoflagellates collected in coral reefs. Bull. Jap. Soc. Sci. Fish. 47: 967-978
• Gómez, F. (2005). A list of free-living dinoflagellate species in the world's oceans. Acta Bot. Croat. 64(1): 129-212
• Streftaris, N.; Zenetos, A.; Papathanassiou, E. (2005). Globalisation in marine ecosystems: the story of non-indigenous marine species across European seas. Oceanogry and Marine Biology: an Annual Review. 43: 419-453
• 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
• 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.
• Tindall D.R., Miller D.M. & Tindall P.M. 1990. Toxicity of Ostreopsis lenticularis from the British and United States Virgin Islands. In: Toxic Marine Phytoplankton (Ed. by E. Granéli, B. Sundström, L. Edler, D.M. Anderson), pp. 424 – 429. Elsevier, New York
• Meunier F.A., Mercado J.A., Molgo J., Tosteson T.R. & Gotta G.E. 1997. Selective depolarization of the muscle membrane in frog nerve-muscle preparations by a chromatographically purified extract of the dinoflagellate Ostreopsis lenticularis. Brit. J. Pharmacol. 121: 1224-1230
• Lenoir S., Ten-Hage L., Turquet J., Quod J.-P., Bernard C. & Hennion M.-C. 2004. First evidence of palytoxin analogues from an Ostreopsis mascarenensis (Dinophyceae) benthic bloom in Southwestern Indian Ocean. J. Phycol. 40: 1042-1051

External links

• Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2022). AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway
• Tomas, Carmelo R.; Hasle, Grethe R. (1997). Identifying marine phytoplankton. San Diego: Academic Press. ISBN 0-12-693018-X. OCLC 36847691. https://www.sciencedirect.com/book/9780126930184/identifying-marine-phytoplankton. 
• Zenetos, A.; Cinar, M.E.; Pancucci-Papadopoulou, M.A.; Harmelin, J.G.; Furnari, G.; Andaloro, F.; Bellou, N.; Streftaris, N. et al. (2005-12-01). "Annotated list of marine alien species in the Mediterranean with records of the worst invasive species". Mediterranean Marine Science (National Documentation Centre (EKT)) 6 (2): 63. doi:10.12681/mms.186. ISSN 1791-6763. 
• 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
• Leles, Suzana Gonçalves; Mitra, Aditee; Flynn, Kevin John; Tillmann, Urban; Stoecker, Diane; Jeong, Hae Jin; Burkholder, JoAnn; Hansen, Per Juel et al. (2019-01-29). "Sampling bias misrepresents the biogeographical significance of constitutive mixotrophs across global oceans". Global Ecology and Biogeography (Wiley) 28 (4): 418–428. doi:10.1111/geb.12853. ISSN 1466-822X. https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/49218/1/2019_Leles_GlobalEcologyBiogeography.pdf. 

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