Higher Classification: > Kingdom Chromista > Subkingdom Harosa > Infrakingdom Alveolata > Phylum Myzozoa > Subphylum Dinozoa > Infraphylum Dinoflagellata > Class Dinophyceae > Order Gymnodiniales > Family Gymnodiniaceae > Genus Cochlodinium

Cochlodinium polykrikoides Margalef, 1961

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Cochlodinium*	Schütt, 1896	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Cochlodinium heterolobatum*	E.S.Silva, 1967	synonym

Literature

original description	Margalef R. 1961. Hidrografía y fitoplancton de un área marina de la costa meridional de Puerto Rico. Invest. Pesq. 18: 33-96.
additional source	Algaebase
additional source	Gómez, F., 2005. A list of free-living dinoflagellate species in the world’s oceans. Acta Bot. Croat. 64 (1), 129-212.
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	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	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	Kim H.G. 1998. Cochlodinium polykrikoides blooms in Korean coastal waters and their mitigation. In: Harmful Algae (Ed. by B. Reguera, J. Blanco, M. L. Fernández & T. Wyatt), pp. 227-228. Xunta de Galicia and Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO, Santiago de Compostela.
additional source	Steidinger, K. A., M. A. Faust, and D. U. Hernández-Becerril. 2009. Dinoflagellates (Dinoflagellata) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 131–154 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College
taxonomy source	Matsuoka, K., Iwataki, M. & Kawami, H. 2008. Morphology and taxonomy of chain-forming species of the genus Cochlodinium (Dinophyceae). Harmful Algae 7: 261-270.

Genbank

Taxonomy

Published in AlgaeBase
WoRMS

External Links

Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications)
GenBank (93 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
GBIF

Citation

WoRMS (2014). Cochlodinium polykrikoides Margalef, 1961. In: Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2014). AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway (taxonomic information republished from AlgaeBase with permission of M.D. Guiry). In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:232650