Gessnerium tamarensis (Lebour) Loeblich III & L.Loeblich

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Chromista
Phylum Dinophyta
Class Dinophyceae
Order Gonyaulacales
Family Gonyaulacaceae
Subfamily Gonyaulacoideae
Genus Gessnerium

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Publication details
Gessnerium tamarensis (Lebour) Loeblich III & L.Loeblich 1979: 44

Original publication: Loeblich III, A.R. and L.A. Loeblich (1979). The systematic of Gonyaulax with special reference to the toxic species. In: . ( Eds) Taylor, D.L. & H.H. Seliger (Toxic Dinoflagellate blooms, p.41-46) Elsevier Sci. Publ., N.Y..

Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Gessnerium is Gessnerium mochimaense Halim.

Status of name
This name is currently regarded as a taxonomic synonym of Alexandrium tamarense (Lebour) Balech

Basionym
Gonyaulax tamarensis Lebour

Type information
Type locality: English Channel: River Tamar Estuary, near Plymouth, United Kingdom (Faust & Gulledge 2002: 18). Holotype: (Faust & Gulledge 2002: 18).

Synonym(s)
No synonyms are currently included in AlgaeBase.

Source of synonymy
Steidinger, K.A. & Tangen, K. (1996). Dinoflagellates. In: Identifying Marine Phytoplankton. (Tomas, C.R. Eds), pp. 387-584. San Diego: Academic Press.

Key references
Dodge, J.D. (1982). Marine dinoflagellates of the British Isles. pp. 1-303. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office.

Faust, M.A. & Gulledge, R.A. (2002). Identifying harmful marine dinoflagellates. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 42: 1-144.

Gómez, F. (2008). Phytoplankton invasions: comments on the validity of categorizing the non-indigenous dinoflagellates and diatoms in European Seas. Marine Pollution Bulletin 56: 620-628.

McMinn, A. & Scott, F.J. (2005). Dinoflagellates. In: Antarctic marine protists. (Scott, F.J. & Marchant, H.J. Eds), pp. 202-250. Canberra & Hobart: Australian Biological Resources Study; Australian Antarctic Division.

SAG Cultures
SAG Cultures may be viewed at http://sagdb.uni-goettingen.de/showstrains.php?genus=Gessnerium&species=tamarensis

SCCAP Cultures
Cultures from the Scandinavian Culture Collection of Algae at the University of Copenhagen (SCCAP) and Protozoa may be viewed at http://www.sccap.dk/search/algaebase.asp?Genus=Gessnerium&Species=tamarensis

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 03 October 2002 by Elizabeth Moran

Verified by: 14 November 2010 by Salvador Valenzuela Miranda

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 391 times since it was created.

Linking to this page: http://www.algaebase.org/search/species/detail/?species_id=55564

Citing AlgaeBase
Cite this record as:
Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2013. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org; searched on 22 May 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: No taxonomy record found for this level.