Alexandrium tamarense (Lebour) Balech
- Dataset
- Diversity and distribution of species of the planktonic dinoflagellate genus Alexandrium (Dinophyta) from the tropical and subtropical Mexican Pacific Ocean
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Chromista
- phylum
- Myzozoa
- class
- Dinophyceae
- order
- Gonyaulacales
- family
- Ostreopsidaceae
- genus
- Alexandrium
- species
- Alexandrium tamarense
description
Measurements: 26 – 35 μm L, 28 – 36 μm W (Table 1). Toxicity: this species may produce toxins associated to PSP (Lugliè et al. 2017). Distribution: in the southern Mexican Pacific, including the Gulf of Tehuantepec. Remarks: All morphological characters examined led us to identify this species as A. tamarense. However, the fact that species of the “ A. tamarense complex ” cannot be distinguished based on morphology alone and that molecular assays are required for reliable identification (Litaker et al. 2018), puts us in a difficult situation, and it is recommended to consider Alexandrium pacificum Litaker as the prevalent species of that complex in the Pacific Ocean. See Discussion.