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basionym: Phalacroma sphaeroideum J.Schiller legitimate

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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]

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nomenclatural synonym: Phalacroma sphaeroideum J.Schiller legitimate

• Distribution: Gulf of Carpentaria, N.S.W. (off Sydney)
• Ex.distribution: Gulf of Mexico, North Atlantic Ocean, North Sea, Adriatic Sea, Black Sea, South Korea, Pacific coast of Mexico

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