Karenia mikimotoi
Super Group:
Alveolata
Phylum:
Dinophyta
Class:
Dinophyceae
Order:
Brachidiniales
Family:
Brachidiniaceae
Genus:
Karenia
Species:
mikimotoi
Synonym(s):
Basionym: Gymnodinium mikimotoi Miyake & Kominami ex Oda
Gyrodinium nagasakiense Takayama & Adachi 1984
Gymnodinium nagasakiense Takayama & Adachi 1985
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
Observation site(s)
SYMBIONTS
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Association with... | Region origin | Name of site | In reference... |
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Parvilucifera sp. | Penzé estuary | “First Report of Parasitism on the Toxic Dinoflagellate Alexandrium minutum Halim”, Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 109 - 113, 2000. | ,