The Australian Algae Name Index (AANI) is a tool for the botanical community that deals with algae names and their usage in the scientific literature, whether as a current name or synonym. AANI does not recommend any particular taxonomy or nomenclature. For a listing of currently accepted scientific names for the Australian Algae, please use the Australian Algae List (AAL) link above.
Showing Dinophysis hastata
- AAL
- Eukaryota(reg.)
- Dinophyta(div.)
- Dinophyceae(cl.)
- Dinophysiales(ordo)
- Dinophysaceae(fam.)
- Dinophysis(gen.)
- hastata(sp.)
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Type locality: Sudsee, Atlantic Ocean
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Text: Taylor indictes that many authors up to the mid-1970s misidentified Dinophysis hastata as Dinophysis uracantha.
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Comment: Wood 1954 Australian Journal of Marine & Freshwater Research 52: 200 includes 3 varieties or forms of D. hastata as synonyms of this taxon. These are not dealt with in this database. An indepth discussion of forms in this species can be found in Bohm 1936 Bishop Museum Bull No 137 pp. 17-20. -
AMANI dist.: New South Wales, Western Australia (tropical), Indian Ocean (tropical), Coral Sea, Gulf of Carpentaria, Eastern Australian Current, Vietnam, Hongkong -
Graphic: Hallegraeff & Lucas Phycologia 27 (1):figs 11, 26 Dodge 1985 Atlas of Dinoflagellates p. 21 -
Habitat: Neritic, Oceanic -
Habit: Planktonic -
Nutrition: Heterotrophic
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Distribution: Gulf of Carpentaria, Coral Sea, N.S.W. (Port Hacking to Trial Bay; also off Sydney), East Australian Current, Tas. (Storm Bay), W.A. (Albany), North-west Shelf -
Ex.distribution: Brazil, Canary Islands, Atlantic Ocean, British Isles, Baltic Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Adriatic Sea (Italy), Black Sea, Indian Ocean