Higher Classification: > Kingdom Chromista > Subkingdom Harosa > Infrakingdom Alveolata > Phylum Myzozoa > Subphylum Dinozoa > Infraphylum Dinoflagellata > Class Dinophyceae > Order Dinophysales > Family Dinophysaceae

Dinophysis Ehrenberg, 1839

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Dinophysis acuminata Claparède & Lachmann, 1859
Dinophysis acuta Ehrenberg, 1839
Dinophysis alata E.G.Jørgensen
Dinophysis amandula (Balech) Sournia, 1973
Dinophysis apicata (Kofoid & Skogsberg) Abé
Dinophysis arctica Mereschkowsky, 1879
Dinophysis argus (Stein) Abé, 1967
Dinophysis baltica (Paulsen) Kofoid & Skogsberg, 1928
Dinophysis biceps Schiller
Dinophysis caudata Saville-Kent, 1881
Dinophysis contracta (Kofoid & Skogsberg) Balech, 1973
Dinophysis dens Pavillard, 1915
Dinophysis dentata Schiller, 1928
Dinophysis elongata (Jörgensen) Abé
Dinophysis fortii Pavillard, 1924
Dinophysis gigantea (Kofoid & Michener) Balech
Dinophysis groenlandica (J.Schiller) Balech, 1967
Dinophysis hastata F.Stein, 1883
Dinophysis infundibulum J. Schiller, 1928
Dinophysis intermedia Cleve, 1900
Dinophysis irregularis (Lebour) Balech, 1967
Dinophysis lachmanni O.W.Paulsen
Dinophysis limbata (Kofoid & Michener) Balech
Dinophysis minuta (Cleve) Balech
Dinophysis mucronata (Kofoid & Skogsberg) Sournia, 1973
Dinophysis nasuta (Stein) Parke & Dixon, 1968
Dinophysis norvegica Claparède & Lachmann, 1859
Dinophysis odiosa (Pavillard) Tai & Skogsberg, 1934
Dinophysis operculata (Stein) Balech, 1967
Dinophysis operculoides (Schütt) Balech, 1967
Dinophysis ovata Claparéde & Lachmann, 1859
Dinophysis parva Schiller, 1928
Dinophysis parvula (Schütt) Balech, 1967
Dinophysis paulseni (Schiller) Balech
Dinophysis planiceps (Schiller) Balech, 1967
Dinophysis porodictyum (F.Stein) T.H.Abé, 1967
Dinophysis pugiuncula (Jørgensen) Balech
Dinophysis pulchella (Lebour) Balech, 1967
Dinophysis pulchra (Kofoid & Michener) Balech
Dinophysis punctata Jörgensen, 1923
Dinophysis pusilla Jørgensen, 1923
Dinophysis recurva Kofoid & Skogsberg, 1928
Dinophysis ruudii (Braarud) Balech, 1967
Dinophysis sacculus F.Stein, 1883
Dinophysis schroederi Pavillard, 1909
Dinophysis schuettii Murray & Whitting, 1899
Dinophysis similis Kofoid & Skogsberg, 1928
Dinophysis sphaerica Stein, 1883
Dinophysis striata (Schutt) Abe
Dinophysis tripos Gourret, 1883
Dinophysis umbosa Schiller, 1928
Dinophysis uracantha Stein, 1883

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: ディノフィシス属

Literature

original description	Ehrenberg, C. G. (1841). Über noch jetzt zahlreich lebende Thierarten der Kreidebildung und den Organismus der Polythalamien. Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. 1839: 81-174.
basis of record	Gómez, F. (2005). A list of free-living dinoflagellate species in the world's oceans. Acta Bot. Croat. 64(1): 129-212.
additional source	Abé, T.H. (1967). The armoured Dinoflagellata: II. Prorocentridae and Dinophysidae (B) - Dinophysis and its allied genera. Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory. 2: 37-78.
additional source	Parker, S.P. (Ed.) (1982). Synopsis and classification of living organisms. McGraw Hill Book Company: New York, NY (USA). ISBN 0-07-079031-0. 1166, 1232 pp.
additional source	Kofoid, C.A.; Skogsberg, T. (1928). Reports on the scientific results of the expedition to the Eastern Tropical Pacific, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, by the U.S. Fish Commission Steamer "Albatross" from October 1904 to March 1905, Lieut. Commander L.M. Garrett, U.S.N., Commanding. [No.] XXXV. The Dinoflagellata: the Dinophysoidae. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy, at Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass. 51: 1-766.
additional source	Hallegraeff, G. M.; Lucas, I. A. N. (1988). The marine dinoflagellate genus Dinophysis (Dinophyceae): photosynthetic, neritic and non-photosynthetic, oceanic species. Phycologia. 27(1): 25-42.
additional source	Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2025). AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. searched on YYYY-MM-DD.
additional source	Balech, E. (1967). Dinoflagelados nuevos o interesantes del Golfo de Mexico y Caribe. Museo Argentino de ciencias naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia" e Instituto nacional de investigación de las ciencias naturales, Revista, Hidrobiología. 2(3): 77-126.

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Taxonomy

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Citation

Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2025). AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway (taxonomic information republished from AlgaeBase with permission of M.D. Guiry). Dinophysis Ehrenberg, 1839. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:109462