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

Dinophysis caudata Saville-Kent, 1881

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Dinophysis*	Ehrenberg, 1839	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Dinophysis diegensis*	Kofoid, 1907	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: フタヒゲムシ

Literature

original description	Saville-Kent W. 1880/82. A manual of the infusoria. London, Bogue 1: 460-461.
original description	Kent, W.S. (1880-1881). A manual of the infusoria, including a description of all known flagellate, ciliate, and tentaculiferous protozoa, British and foreign and an account of the organization and affinities of the sponges. Vol. I pp. 289-720. London.
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	Balech, E. (2002). Dinoflagelados tecados tóxicos en el Cono Sur Americano. In: Sar, E.A., Ferrario, M.E. & Reguera, B. (Eds.). Floraciones Algales Nocivas en el Cono Sur Americano. Instituto Español de Oceanografía. pp. 123-144.
additional source	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
additional source	Campbell, P.H. (1973). Studies on brackish water phytoplankton. UNC.SG.73.07. pp. 1-406. Chapel Hill: Sea Grant Publications, University of North Carolina.
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. (1951). Sobre dos variedades de Dinophysis caudata Kent. Comunic. Zool. Mus. Hist. Nat. Montevideo. 3(60): 1-9.
additional source	Tomas, C.R. (Ed.). (1997). Identifying marine phytoplankton. Academic Press: San Diego, CA [etc.] (USA). ISBN 0-12-693018-X. XV, 858 pp.
additional source	Moestrup, Ø., Akselman, R., Cronberg, G., Elbraechter, M., Fraga, S., Halim, Y., Hansen, G., Hoppenrath, M., Larsen, J., Lundholm, N., Nguyen, L. N., Zingone, A. (Eds) (2009 onwards). IOC-UNESCO Taxonomic Reference List of Harmful Micro Algae.
additional source	Lakkis, S. (2011). Le phytoplancton marin du Liban (Méditerranée orientale): biologie, biodiversité, biogéographie. Aracne: Roma. ISBN 978-88-548-4243-4. 293 pp.
additional source	Fukuyo Y., Takano H., Chihara M. & Matsuoka K. 1990. Red tide organisms in Japan – an illustrated taxonomic guide. Uchida Rokakuho, Tokyo. 430 pp.
additional source	Karunasagar I., Segar K. & Karunasagar I. 1989. Potentially toxic dinoflagellates in shellfish harvesting areas along the coast of Karnataka State (India). In : Red tide: Biology, Environmental Science, and Toxicology (Ed. by T. Okaichi, D.M. Anderson & T. Nemoto), pp. 65 - 68. Elsevier, New York.
additional source	Martin, J. L.; LeGresley, M. M.; Strain P. M.; Clement, P. (1999). Phytoplankton monitoring in the southwest Bay of Fundy during 1993-96. Canadian Technical Report of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 2265. 4: 1-132.
additional source	Chang, F.H.; Charleston, W.A.G.; McKenna, P.B.; Clowes, C.D.; Wilson, G.J.; Broady, P.A. (2012). Phylum Myzozoa: dinoflagellates, perkinsids, ellobiopsids, sporozoans, in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2012). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 3. Kingdoms Bacteria, Protozoa, Chromista, Plantae, Fungi. pp. 175-216.
additional source	Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 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.
ecology source	Mitra, A.; Caron, D. A.; Faure, E.; Flynn, K. J.; Leles, S. G.; Hansen, P. J.; McManus, G. B.; Not, F.; Do Rosario Gomes, H.; Santoferrara, L. F.; Stoecker, D. K.; Tillmann, U. (2023). The Mixoplankton Database (MDB): Diversity of photo‐phago‐trophic plankton in form, function, and distribution across the global ocean. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology. 70(4).
ecology source	Nishitani, G.; Nagai, S.; Sakiyama, S.; Kamiyama, T. (2008). Successful cultivation of the toxic dinoflagellate Dinophysis caudata (Dinophyceae). Plankton and Benthos Research. 3(2): 78-85.
ecology source	Nishitani, G.; Nagai, S.; Takano, Y.; Sakiyama, S.; Baba, K.; Kamiyama, T. (2008). Growth characteristics and phylogenetic analysis of the marine dinoflagellate Dinophysis infundibulus (Dinophyceae). Aquatic Microbial Ecology. 52: 209-221.

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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 caudata Saville-Kent, 1881. 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:109612