Morphological and genetic analyses of Ostreopsis (Dinophyceae, Gonyaulacales, Ostreopsidaceae) species from Vietnamese waters with a re‐description of the type species, O. siamensis
| Autor: | Luom Phan-Tan, Thuoc Van Chu, Jacob Larsen, Nina Lundholm, Xuan-Vy Nguyen, Duyen Ngoc Huynh-Thi, Lam Nguyen-Ngoc, Hai Doan-Nhu |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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0106 biological sciences
biology 010604 marine biology & hydrobiology Ostreopsis siamensis Dinoflagellate Zoology Plant Science Aquatic Science biology.organism_classification DNA Ribosomal 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences Type species Asian People Ostreopsis lenticularis Genus Dinoflagellida Humans Type locality Taxonomy (biology) Dinophyceae |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Phycology. 57:1059-1083 |
| ISSN: | 1529-8817 0022-3646 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/jpy.13157 |
| Popis: | Identification of species of the dinoflagellate genus Ostreopsis is difficult because several species have been poorly described, others misidentified in the literature, and the type species, O. siamensis, has not been described by contemporary taxonomic methods. In the present study, it is argued that Ostreopsis sp. 6 as described by previous authors is similar to the type species, and we offer an emended description of O. siamensis by LM, SEM, and molecular analyses of nuclear LSU and ITS rDNA based on material collected a few hundred kilometers from the type locality in the Gulf of Thailand and along the Vietnamese east coast. Ostreopsis siamensis is genetically different from the species reported as O. cf. siamensis in the literature and the latter should be described as a separate species. It is also concluded that with the poor knowledge of the morphological variability of many species of Ostreopsis, O. siamensis may not be distinguished from other similar-sized species by its morphological features, and hence molecular data are needed for reliable identification. The species Ostreopsis lenticularis and Ostreopsis cf. ovata were also found and described. |
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