Ostreopsis lenticularis

Ostreopsis lenticularis is a species of dinoflagellate of the family Ostreopsidaceae[1] described in 1981 by Yasuwo Fukuyo.[2]

Ostreopsis lenticularis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Chromista
Superphylum: Alveolata
Phylum: Myzozoa
Superclass: Dinoflagellata
Class: Dinophyceae
Order: Gonyaulacales
Family: Ostreopsidaceae
Genus: Ostreopsis
Species:
O. lenticularis
Binomial name
Ostreopsis lenticularis
Y.Fukuyo

Distribution

This species is endemic to Tahiti.

References

  1. "Ostreopsis lenticularis Y.Fukuyo, 1981". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 22 February 2022.
  2. "Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries - Index of Botanists - Fukuyo, Yasuwo". Harvard University. Retrieved 22 February 2022.
  • 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


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