Dinophysaceae
Dinophysis sphaerica F.Stein , legitimate, scientific
Stein, F. (1883), Der Organismus der Infusionsthiere nach eigenen Forschungen in systematischer Reihenfolge III. Abth.Einleitung und der abbildungen II. Halfte: caption taf XX, figs 3-9 [tax. nov.]
  • Type locality: Atlantic Ocean
Schütt, F. in Hensen, V.A.C. (ed.) (1895), Die Peridineen der Plankton-Expedition. Ergebnisse der Plankton-Expedition der Humbolt-Stiftung Bd IV: 147 [secondary reference]
Wood, E.J.F. (1954), Dinoflagellates of the Australian region. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 5: 196 [pro parte misapplied]
pro parte misapplied to: Dinophysis similis Kof. & Skogsb. legitimate by Schütt, F. in Hensen, V.A.C. (ed.) (1895), Die Peridineen der Plankton-Expedition. Ergebnisse der Plankton-Expedition der Humbolt-Stiftung Bd IV: 147
Hallegraeff, G.M. & Jeffrey, S.W. (1984), Tropical phytoplankton species and pigments of continental shelf waters of north and north-west Australia. Marine Ecology Progress Series 20: 59–74 [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: - [secondary reference]
  • APC Comment: R.Cowan (2008) uses this taxon concept.
Hallegraeff, G.M. & Lucas, I.A.N. (1988), The marine dinoflagellate genus Dinophysis(Dinophyceae): photosynthetic, neritic and non-photosynthetic, oceanic species. Phycologia 27: 25–42 [secondary reference]
ABRS (2008), Australian Algal Name Index Edn. 2008: - [secondary reference]
  • AMANI dist.: New South Wales, Western Australia (temperate), Western Australia (tropical), Coral Sea, Eastern Australian Current, British Isles
  • Nutrition: Autotrophic
  • Habitat: Neritic, Oceanic
  • Graphic: Hallegraeff & Lucas Phycologia 27 (1):fig 12
McCarthy, P. (Comp.) (2012), Census of Australian Marine Dinoflagellates: - [secondary reference]
  • Distribution: Gulf of Carpentaria/North-west Shelf, Coral Sea, N.S.W. (Port Hacking, off Sydney), East Australian Current, W.A. (Swan River)
  • Ex.distribution: Brazil, U.S.A. (Virginia), Atlantic Ocean, British Isles, Baltic Sea, White Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Adriatic Sea, Black Sea, Red Sea, Pacific coast of Mexico