Kofoid, C.A. & Michener, J.R. (1911), Reports on the scientific results of the expedition to the eastern tropical Pacific in charge of Alexander Agassiz. 22 New genera and species of dinoflagellates. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology Harvard Edn. 7, 54: 290 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Dinophysis rotundata Clap. & J.Lachm. legitimate

Wood, E.J.F. (1954), Dinoflagellates of the Australian region. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 5: 171–351 [secondary reference]

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 27: 25–42 [secondary reference]

Steidinger, K.A. & Tangen, K. in Tomas, C.R. (ed.) (1997), Identifying Marine Phytoplankton. Identifying Marine Phytoplankton: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Dinophysis rotundata Clap. & J.Lachm. legitimate

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

Hallegraeff, G.M., Bolch, C.J.S., Huisman, J.M. & de Salas, M.F. (2010), Planktonic dinoflagellates. Algae of Australia: Phytoplankton of Temperate Coastal Waters: 145–212 [secondary reference]

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

nomenclatural synonym: Dinophysis rotundata Clap. & J.Lachm. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Phalacroma rudgei G.Murray & Whitting legitimate

• APC Comment: P.McCarthy (2012) uses this taxon concept.
• Distribution: Gulf of Carpentaria, East Australian Current, N.S.W. (Port Hacking), North-west Shelf
• Ex.distribution: South Atlantic Ocean, Brazil, Canary Islands, British Isles, North Sea, Baltic Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Adriatic Sea, Black Sea, Japan, Indian Ocean, South Pacific Ocean, Southern Ocean (S of Australia), New Zealand, Antarctica

Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G M. (2021), -. Algaebase web site: www.algaebase.org: - AAL [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Dinophysis rotundata Clap. & J.Lachm. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Prodinophysis rotundata (Clap. & J.Lachm.) Balech legitimate taxonomic synonym: Dinophysis whittingae Balech legitimate

• Distribution: Western Australia (tropical), Australian Antarctic Territory, Gulf of Carpentaria, Southern Ocean, Eastern Australian Current, N.S.W. (Port Hacking), North-west Shelf

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