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Gonyaulax
Sign in to savethumb | 220x124px | right | Gonyaulax spinifera Gonyaulax is a genus of dinoflagellates with the type species Gonyaulax spinifera (Claparède et Lachmann) Diesing. Gonyaulax belongs to red dinoflagellates and commonly causes red tides. It can produce yesotoxins: for example, strains of Gonyaulax spinifera from New Zealand are yessotoxin producers.
In the Vinony graph
Vinony's link graph records 269 inbound references to Gonyaulax, and connects out to Adeleorina, Cryptosporidium and Dinophyceae.
It sits within the topics Bioluminescent dinoflagellates, Dinoflagellate genera and Gonyaulacales.
Vinony links it to 6 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
ゴニオラックス属
GENUS
- KingdomChromista
- PhylumMyzozoa
- ClassDinophyceae
- OrderGonyaulacales
- FamilyGonyaulacaceae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 113
- With media
- 78
- Family
- Gonyaulacaceae
- Collections
- CCBA-FMVZ-UADY, NHMUK, US, UAMI
- Recorded in
- Mexico, United Kingdom, United States, Finland, Belize
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Structure
- Classification
- Adaptations
- Effect on humans
- Red tide
- References
thumb | 220x124px | right | Gonyaulax spinifera Gonyaulax is a genus of dinoflagellates with the type species Gonyaulax spinifera (Claparède et Lachmann) Diesing. Gonyaulax belongs to red dinoflagellates and commonly causes red tides. It can produce yesotoxins: for example, strains of Gonyaulax spinifera from New Zealand are yessotoxin producers.
== Structure == The plate formula in the genus Gonyaulax Diesing was redefined as Po, 3', 2a, 6", 6c, 4-8s, 5'", 1p, 1"".
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