Kofoid, C.A. & Skogsberg, T. (1928), The Dinoflagellata: the Dinophysiodeae. Memoirs of the Museum Comparative Zoology, Harvard 51: 239, fig. 30 [tax. nov.]

• Type locality: Eastern tropical Pacific Ocean

Wood, E.J.F. (1963), Dinoflagellates in the Australian region. II – Recent collections. Tech. Pap. Div. Fish. Oceanogr. CSIRO 14: 1–55 [secondary reference]

Jeffrey, S.W. & Hallegraeff, G.M. (1987), Phytoplankton pigments, species and light climate in a complex warm-core eddy of the East Australian Current. Deep Sea Res., Part A 34: 649–673 [secondary reference]

Hallegraeff, G.M. & Lucas, I.A.N. (1988), The marine dinoflagellate genus Dinophysis (Dinophyceae): photosynthetic, neritic and non-photosynthetic, oceanic species. Phycologia Edn. 1, 27: 25–42 [secondary reference]

• APC Comment: R.Cowan (2008) uses this taxon concept.

ABRS (2008), Australian Algal Name Index Edn. 2008: - [secondary reference]

• AMANI dist.: New South Wales, Western Australia (tropical), Indian Ocean (tropical), Coral Sea
• Graphic: Hallegraeff & Lucas Phycologia 27 (1):fig 5
• Habitat: Neritic, Oceanic
• Nutrition: Heterotrophic

McCarthy, P. (Comp.) (2012), Census of Australian Marine Dinoflagellates: - [secondary reference]

• Distribution: Cape Byron, N.S.W. to Norfolk Island, East Australian Current, W.A. (North-west Shelf)
• Ex.distribution: Brazil, Gulf of Mexico, U.S.A. (Virginia), Indian Ocean, eastern tropical Pacific Ocean

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