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JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY
Volume 40, Issue 2, Pages 398-411Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1529-8817.2004.03060.x
Keywords
Alexandrium; Alexandrium minutum; Alexandrium tamarense; Alexandrium tamutum sp nov.; LSU rDNA; Mediterranean Sea; phylogeny; SSU rDNA; taxonomy
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A new species of the dinoflagellate genus Alexandrium, A. tamutum sp. nov., is described based on the results of morphological and phylogenetic studies carried out on strains isolated from two sites in the Mediterranean Sea: the Gulf of Trieste (northern Adriatic Sea) and the Gulf of Naples (central Tyrrhenian Sea). Vegetative cells were examined in LM and SEM, and resting cysts were obtained by crossing strains of opposite mating type. Alexandrium tamutum is a small-sized species, resembling A. minutum in its small size, the rounded-elliptical shape and the morphology of its cyst. The main diagnostic character of the new species is a relatively wide and large sixth precingular plate (6'), whereas that of A. minutum is much narrower and smaller. Contrary to A. minutum, A. tamutum strains did not produce paralytic shellfish poisoning toxins. Phylogenies inferred from the nuclear small subunit rDNA and the D1/D2 domains of the large subunit nuclear rDNA of five strains of A. tamutum and numerous strains of other Alexandrium species showed that A. tamutum strains clustered in a well-supported clade, distinct from A. minutum.
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