Kofoid, C.A. & Skogsberg, T. (1928), The Dinoflagellata: the Dinophysiodeae. Memoirs of the Museum Comparative Zoology, Harvard 51: 157 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Dinophysis expulsa Kof. & J.R.Michener legitimate

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]

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

nomenclatural synonym: Dinophysis expulsa Kof. & J.R.Michener legitimate

• Distribution: Coral Sea, W.A. (Indian Ocean, NW Shelf)
• Ex.distribution: Brazil, Gulf of Mexico, eastern tropical Pacific Ocean

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