Karenia mikimotoi

Super Group: 
Alveolata
Phylum: 
Dinophyta
Class: 
Dinophyceae
Order: 
Brachidiniales
Family: 
Brachidiniaceae
Genus: 
Karenia
Species: 
mikimotoi
Authority: 
(Miyake & Kominami ex Oda) Gert Hansen & Ø.Moestrup in N. Daugbjerg, G. Hansen, J. Larsen, & Ø. Moestrup 2000
Synonym(s): 
Basionym: Gymnodinium mikimotoi Miyake & Kominami ex Oda
Gyrodinium nagasakiense Takayama & Adachi 1984
Gymnodinium nagasakiense Takayama & Adachi 1985

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Type species

The type species (holotype) of the genus Karenia is Karenia brevis (C.C.Davis) Gert Hansen & Ø.Moestrup.

Type illustration / Type locality / Type specimen

Type locality: NW Pacific Ocean: Gokasho Bay, Japan (Faust & Gulledge 2002: 40)

Ecology

Substrate: planktonic
Sociability: solitary
Salinity: marine
Salinity: variable (estuary)
pH: neutral

Feeding: Photosynthetic

Life cycle

Phases_alternance: haplontic
Generation: <1 month

Reproduction_mode: asexual_binary

Feeding behaviour

Photosynthetic

Mode of locomotion

Two flagella typical for Dinophyceae
Flagellum: 2
Motility: motile_swimming

Attached phylogeny

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Observation site(s)

SYMBIONTS

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Parvilucifera sp. Penzé estuary E. Erard-Le Denn, Chrétiennot-Dinet, M. - J., and Probert, I., “First Report of Parasitism on the Toxic Dinoflagellate Alexandrium minutum Halim”, Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 109 - 113, 2000.