Alexandrium tamutum M.Montresor, A.Beran & U.John

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Chromista
Phylum Dinophyta
Class Dinophyceae
Order Gonyaulacales
Family Goniodomataceae
Genus Alexandrium

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Publication details
Alexandrium tamutum M.Montresor, A.Beran & U.John in Montresor et al. 2004: 402, figs 1-4

Original publication: Montresor, M., John, U., Beran, A. & Medlin, L.K. (2004). Alexandrium tamutum sp. nov. (Dinophyceae): a new nontoxic species in the genus Alexandrium. Journal of Phycology 40: 398-411.

Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Alexandrium is Alexandrium minutum Halim.

Status of name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.

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

General environment
This is a marine species.

Type information
Type locality: Gulf of Naples, Tyrrhenian Sea, Mediterranean Sea (Montresor et al., 2004: 402). Holotype: Fig. 3A: (Montresor et al., 2004: 402). Notes: Iconotype: Fig. 2, A-C.

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Alexandrium tamutum M.Montresor, A.Beran & U.John)
Europe: Britain (Brown et al. 2011), Italy (Montresor et al., 2004, Leaw et al 2005, Figueroa et al. 2007, Penna et al. 2008), Sardinia (Penna et al. 2008), Spain (Figueroa et al. 2007, Penna et al. 2008).

Key references
Brown, L., Bresnan, E., Graham, J., Lacaze, J.-P, Turrell, E. & Collins, C. (2011). Distribution, diversity and toxin composition of the genus Alexandrium (Dinophyceae) in Scottish waters. European Journal of Phycology 45(4): 375-393.

Figueroa, R.I., Garcés, E. & Bravo, I. (2007). Comparative study of the life cycles of Alexandrium tamatum and Alexandrium minutum (Gonyaulacales, Dinophyceae) in culture. Journal of Phycology 43(5): 1039-1053.

Kim, K.-Y., Yoshida, M. & Kim, C.-H. (2005). Molecular phylogeny of three hitherto unreported Alexandrium species: Alexandrium hiranoi, Alexandrium leei and Alexandrium satoanum (Gonyaulacales, Dinophyceae) inferred from the 18S and 26S rDNA sequence data. Phycologia 44: 361-368.

Leaw, C.P., Lim, P.T., Ng, B.K., Cheah, M.Y., Ahmad, A. & Usup, G. (2005). Phylogenetic analysis of Alexandrium species and Pyrodinium bahamense (Dinophyceae) based on theca morphology and nuclear ribosomal gene sequence. Phycologia 44: 550-565.

Penna, A., Fraga, S., Masó, M., Giacobbe, M.G., Bravo, I., Garcés, E., Vila, M., Bertozzini, E., Adreoni, F., Lugliè, A. & Vernesi, C. (2008). Phylogenetic relationships among the Mediterranean Alexandrium (Dinophyceae) species based on sequences of 5.8S gene and Internal Transcript Spacers of the rRNA operon. European Journal of Phycology 43(2): 163-178, 25 figs, 3 tables.

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

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=Alexandrium&Species=tamutum

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 01 March 2006 by Wendy Guiry

Verified by: 08 April 2011 by M.D. Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 312 times since it was created.

References
(Please note: only references with the binomials in the title are included. The information is from the Literature database.)

Montresor, M., John, U., Beran, A. & Medlin, L.K. (2004). Alexandrium tamutum sp. nov. (Dinophyceae): a new nontoxic species in the genus Alexandrium. Journal of Phycology 40: 398-411.

Linking to this page: http://www.algaebase.org/search/species/detail/?species_id=74043

Citing AlgaeBase
Cite this record as:
M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2013. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org; searched on 19 June 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:31638