Morphology, ultrastructure, and molecular phylogeny of Wangodinium sinense gen. et sp. nov. (Gymnodiniales, Dinophyceae) and revisiting of Gymnodinium dorsalisulcum and Gymnodinium impudicum

• Main Authors: Luo, Zhaohe, Hu, Zhangxi, Tang, Yingzhong, Mertens, Kenneth Neil, Leaw, Chui Pin, Lim, Po Teen, Teng, Sing Tung, Wang, Lei, Gu, Haifeng
• Format: Article
• Published: Wiley 2018
• Subjects: Q Science (General); QH Natural history
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/21379/; https://doi.org/10.1111/jpy.12780

The genus Gymnodinium includes many morphologically similar species, but molecular phylogenies show that it is polyphyletic. Eight strains of Gymnodinium impudicum, Gymnodinium dorsalisulcum and a novel Gymnodinium-like species from Chinese and Malaysian waters and the Mediterranean Sea were establi...