Symbiodinium sp.

Super Group: 
Alveolata
Phylum: 
Dinophyta
Class: 
Dinophyceae
Order: 
Suessiales
Family: 
Symbiodiniaceae
Genus: 
Symbiodinium
Authority: 
Symbiodinium Freudenthal, 1962

Suggest a modification

Diagnosis

Diagnose_Genus: Symbiodinium, Freudenthal, 1962
Boby_length: 10 µm
Body_wide:  5 µm
Toxicity: No
Bloom: No

Ecology

Substrate: endozoic/planktonic
Sociability_adults: solitary
Salinity: marine
Feeding: photosynthetic/non-obligatory phototrophic endosymbiont (REF)
 

Feeding behaviour

Photosynthetic

Mode of locomotion

Two flagella typical for Dinophyceae

Observation site(s)

HOSTS

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Unknown species #4 Western Pacific T. C. LaJeunesse, “"Species" Radiations of Symbiotic Dinoflagellates in the Atlantic and Indo-Pacific Since the Miocene-Pliocene Transition”, Molecular Biology and Evolution, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 570 - 581, 2004.
Unknown species #3 Western Indian T. C. LaJeunesse, Pettay, D. T., Sampayo, E. M., Phongsuwan, N., Brown, B., Obura, D. O., Hoegh-Guldberg, O., and Fitt, W. K., “Long-standing environmental conditions, geographic isolation and host-symbiont specificity influence the relative ecological dominance and genetic diversification of coral endosymbionts in the genus Symbiodinium”, Journal of Biogeography, vol. 37, no. 5, pp. 785 - 800, 2010.
Unknown species #1 Great Barrier Reef T. C. LaJeunesse, Bhagooli, R., Hidaka, M., deVantier, L., Done, T., Schmidt, G. W., Fitt, W. K., and Hoegh-Guldberg, O., “Closely related Symbiodinium spp. differ in relative dominance in coral reef host communities across environmental, latitudinal and biogeographic gradients”, Marine Ecology Progress Series, vol. 284, pp. 147 - 161, 2004.
Unknown species #4 Okinawa T. C. LaJeunesse, Bhagooli, R., Hidaka, M., deVantier, L., Done, T., Schmidt, G. W., Fitt, W. K., and Hoegh-Guldberg, O., “Closely related Symbiodinium spp. differ in relative dominance in coral reef host communities across environmental, latitudinal and biogeographic gradients”, Marine Ecology Progress Series, vol. 284, pp. 147 - 161, 2004.
Unknown species #4 Okinawa S. R. Santos, Taylor, D. J., ,, Hidaka, M., Sakai, K., and Coffroth, M. Alice, “Molecular phylogeny of symbiotic dinoflagellates inferred from partial chloroplast large subunit (23S)-rDNA sequences”, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 97 - 111, 2002.
Unknown species #2 T. C. LaJeunesse, “"Species" Radiations of Symbiotic Dinoflagellates in the Atlantic and Indo-Pacific Since the Miocene-Pliocene Transition”, Molecular Biology and Evolution, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 570 - 581, 2004.
Unknown species #3 T. C. LaJeunesse, “"Species" Radiations of Symbiotic Dinoflagellates in the Atlantic and Indo-Pacific Since the Miocene-Pliocene Transition”, Molecular Biology and Evolution, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 570 - 581, 2004.
Acanthopathes undulata Hawaiian Islands D. Wagner, Pochon, X., Irwin, L., TOONEN, R. J., and GATES, R. D., “Azooxanthellate? Most Hawaiian black corals contain Symbiodinium”, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol. 2782529292981572334654132176615641386222423430430276100918149120271668346, no. 171027387001700116764, pp. 1323 - 1328, 2011.
Acanthopathes undulata Hawaiian Islands D. Wagner, Pochon, X., Irwin, L., TOONEN, R. J., and GATES, R. D., “Azooxanthellate? Most Hawaiian black corals contain Symbiodinium”, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol. 2782529292981572334654132176615641386222423430430276100918149120271668346, no. 171027387001700116764, pp. 1323 - 1328, 2011.
Aglaophenia cupressina Western Indian T. C. LaJeunesse, Pettay, D. T., Sampayo, E. M., Phongsuwan, N., Brown, B., Obura, D. O., Hoegh-Guldberg, O., and Fitt, W. K., “Long-standing environmental conditions, geographic isolation and host-symbiont specificity influence the relative ecological dominance and genetic diversification of coral endosymbionts in the genus Symbiodinium”, Journal of Biogeography, vol. 37, no. 5, pp. 785 - 800, 2010.
Aglaophenia sp. Great Barrier Reef T. C. LaJeunesse, Loh, W. K. W., van Woesik, R., Hoegh-Guldberg, O., Schmidt, G. W., and Fitt, W. K., “Low symbiont diversity in southern Great Barrier Reef corals, relative to those of the Caribbean”, Limnology and Oceanography, vol. 48, no. 5, pp. 2046 - 2054, 2003.
Aglaophenia sp. Great Barrier Reef T. C. LaJeunesse, Bhagooli, R., Hidaka, M., deVantier, L., Done, T., Schmidt, G. W., Fitt, W. K., and Hoegh-Guldberg, O., “Closely related Symbiodinium spp. differ in relative dominance in coral reef host communities across environmental, latitudinal and biogeographic gradients”, Marine Ecology Progress Series, vol. 284, pp. 147 - 161, 2004.
Aglaophenia sp. Great Barrier Reef T. C. LaJeunesse, Bhagooli, R., Hidaka, M., deVantier, L., Done, T., Schmidt, G. W., Fitt, W. K., and Hoegh-Guldberg, O., “Closely related Symbiodinium spp. differ in relative dominance in coral reef host communities across environmental, latitudinal and biogeographic gradients”, Marine Ecology Progress Series, vol. 284, pp. 147 - 161, 2004.
Aiptasia pallida Florida S. R. Santos, Taylor, D. J., ,, Hidaka, M., Sakai, K., and Coffroth, M. Alice, “Molecular phylogeny of symbiotic dinoflagellates inferred from partial chloroplast large subunit (23S)-rDNA sequences”, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 97 - 111, 2002.
Aiptasia pallida Bermuda A. M. Savage, Goodson, M. S., Visram, S., Trapido-Rosenthal, H., Wiedenmann, J., and Douglas, A. E., “Molecular diversity of symbiotic algae at the latitudinal margins of their distribution: dinoflagellates of the genus Symbiodinium in corals and sea anemones”, Marine Ecology Progress Series, vol. 244, pp. 17 - 26, 2002.
Aiptasia pallida Florida T. C. LaJeunesse, “INVESTIGATING THE BIODIVERSITY, ECOLOGY, AND PHYLOGENY OF ENDOSYMBIOTIC DINOFLAGELLATES IN THE GENUS SYMBIODINIUM USING THE ITS REGION: IN SEARCH OF A "SPECIES" LEVEL MARKER”, Journal of Phycology, vol. 37, no. 5, pp. 866 - 880, 2001.
Aiptasia pallida Bermuda A. M. Savage, Goodson, M. S., Visram, S., Trapido-Rosenthal, H., Wiedenmann, J., and Douglas, A. E., “Molecular diversity of symbiotic algae at the latitudinal margins of their distribution: dinoflagellates of the genus Symbiodinium in corals and sea anemones”, Marine Ecology Progress Series, vol. 244, pp. 17 - 26, 2002.
Aiptasia pallida Bermuda A. M. Savage, Goodson, M. S., Visram, S., Trapido-Rosenthal, H., Wiedenmann, J., and Douglas, A. E., “Molecular diversity of symbiotic algae at the latitudinal margins of their distribution: dinoflagellates of the genus Symbiodinium in corals and sea anemones”, Marine Ecology Progress Series, vol. 244, pp. 17 - 26, 2002.
Aiptasia pulchella Hawaiian Islands X. Pochon, Stat, M., Takabayashi, M., Chasqui, L., Chauka, L. J., Logan, D. D. K., and GATES, R. U. T. H. D., “COMPARISON OF ENDOSYMBIOTIC AND FREE-LIVING SYMBIODINIUM (DINOPHYCEAE) DIVERSITY IN A HAWAIIAN REEF ENVIRONMENT1”, Journal of Phycology, vol. 46, no. 1, pp. 53 - 65, 2010.
Aiptasia pulchella Hawaiian Islands X. Pochon, Stat, M., Takabayashi, M., Chasqui, L., Chauka, L. J., Logan, D. D. K., and GATES, R. U. T. H. D., “COMPARISON OF ENDOSYMBIOTIC AND FREE-LIVING SYMBIODINIUM (DINOPHYCEAE) DIVERSITY IN A HAWAIIAN REEF ENVIRONMENT1”, Journal of Phycology, vol. 46, no. 1, pp. 53 - 65, 2010.
Aiptasia pulchella Hawaiian Islands S. R. Santos, Taylor, D. J., and Coffroth, M. Alice, “GENETIC COMPARISONS OF FRESHLY ISOLATED VERSUS CULTURED SYMBIOTIC DINOFLAGELLATES: IMPLICATIONS FOR EXTRAPOLATING TO THE INTACT SYMBIOSIS”, Journal of Phycology, vol. 37, no. 5, pp. 900 - 912, 2001.
Aiptasia pulchella Hawaiian Islands X. Pochon, Stat, M., Takabayashi, M., Chasqui, L., Chauka, L. J., Logan, D. D. K., and GATES, R. U. T. H. D., “COMPARISON OF ENDOSYMBIOTIC AND FREE-LIVING SYMBIODINIUM (DINOPHYCEAE) DIVERSITY IN A HAWAIIAN REEF ENVIRONMENT1”, Journal of Phycology, vol. 46, no. 1, pp. 53 - 65, 2010.
Aiptasia pulchella Hawai O'ahu R. Rowan and Powers, A., “Molecular genetic identification of symbiotic dinoflagellates (zooxanthellae)”, 1991.
Aiptasia tagetes Bermuda B. K. Baillie, Belda-Baillie, C. A., and Maruyama, T., “CONSPECIFICITY AND INDO-PACIFIC DISTRIBUTION OF SYMBIODINIUM GENOTYPES (DINOPHYCEAE) FROM GIANT CLAMS”, Journal of Phycology, vol. 36, no. 6, pp. 1153 - 1161, 2000.
Alcyonium sp. Western Indian T. C. LaJeunesse, Pettay, D. T., Sampayo, E. M., Phongsuwan, N., Brown, B., Obura, D. O., Hoegh-Guldberg, O., and Fitt, W. K., “Long-standing environmental conditions, geographic isolation and host-symbiont specificity influence the relative ecological dominance and genetic diversification of coral endosymbionts in the genus Symbiodinium”, Journal of Biogeography, vol. 37, no. 5, pp. 785 - 800, 2010.
Amphiscolops sp. B. K. Baillie, Belda-Baillie, C. A., and Maruyama, T., “CONSPECIFICITY AND INDO-PACIFIC DISTRIBUTION OF SYMBIODINIUM GENOTYPES (DINOPHYCEAE) FROM GIANT CLAMS”, Journal of Phycology, vol. 36, no. 6, pp. 1153 - 1161, 2000.
Amphisorus hemprichii Gulf of Aqaba Taba J. A. N. PAWLOWSKI, HOLZMANN, M. A. R. I. A., FAHRNI, J. O. S. E. F., and Hallock, P., “Molecular Identification of Algal Endosymbionts in Large Miliolid Foraminifera: 1. Chlorophytes”, The Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, vol. 48, no. 3, pp. 362 - 367, 2001.
Amphisorus hemprichii Gulf of Aqaba J. A. N. PAWLOWSKI, HOLZMANN, M. A. R. I. A., FAHRNI, J. O. S. E. F., Pochon, X., and LEE, J. O. H. N. J., “Molecular Identification of Algal Endosymbionts in Large Miliolid Foraminifera: 2. Dinoflagellates”, The Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, vol. 48, no. 3, pp. 368 - 373, 2001.
Amphisorus hemprichii maldives J. A. N. PAWLOWSKI, HOLZMANN, M. A. R. I. A., FAHRNI, J. O. S. E. F., and Hallock, P., “Molecular Identification of Algal Endosymbionts in Large Miliolid Foraminifera: 1. Chlorophytes”, The Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, vol. 48, no. 3, pp. 362 - 367, 2001.
Amphisorus hemprichii Gulf of Aqaba J. A. N. PAWLOWSKI, HOLZMANN, M. A. R. I. A., FAHRNI, J. O. S. E. F., Pochon, X., and LEE, J. O. H. N. J., “Molecular Identification of Algal Endosymbionts in Large Miliolid Foraminifera: 2. Dinoflagellates”, The Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, vol. 48, no. 3, pp. 368 - 373, 2001.
Amphisorus hemprichii Mariana Islands X. Pochon, Garcia-Cuetos, L., Baker, A. C., Castella, E., and Pawlowski, J., “One-year survey of a single Micronesian reef reveals extraordinarily rich diversity of Symbiodinium types in soritid foraminifera”, Coral Reefs, vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 867 - 882, 2007.
Amphisorus hemprichii Mariana Islands X. Pochon, Garcia-Cuetos, L., Baker, A. C., Castella, E., and Pawlowski, J., “One-year survey of a single Micronesian reef reveals extraordinarily rich diversity of Symbiodinium types in soritid foraminifera”, Coral Reefs, vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 867 - 882, 2007.
Amphisorus hemprichii Great Barrier Reef X. Pochon, LaJeunesse, T. C., and Pawlowski, J., “Biogeographic partitioning and host specialization among foraminiferan dinoflagellate symbionts (Symbiodinium; Dinophyta)”, Marine Biology, vol. 146, no. 1, pp. 17 - 27, 2004.
Amphisorus hemprichii Mariana Islands X. Pochon, Stat, M., Takabayashi, M., Chasqui, L., Chauka, L. J., Logan, D. D. K., and GATES, R. U. T. H. D., “COMPARISON OF ENDOSYMBIOTIC AND FREE-LIVING SYMBIODINIUM (DINOPHYCEAE) DIVERSITY IN A HAWAIIAN REEF ENVIRONMENT1”, Journal of Phycology, vol. 46, no. 1, pp. 53 - 65, 2010.
Amphisorus hemprichii Mariana Islands X. Pochon, Garcia-Cuetos, L., Baker, A. C., Castella, E., and Pawlowski, J., “One-year survey of a single Micronesian reef reveals extraordinarily rich diversity of Symbiodinium types in soritid foraminifera”, Coral Reefs, vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 867 - 882, 2007.
Amphisorus hemprichii Great Barrier Reef X. Pochon, LaJeunesse, T. C., and Pawlowski, J., “Biogeographic partitioning and host specialization among foraminiferan dinoflagellate symbionts (Symbiodinium; Dinophyta)”, Marine Biology, vol. 146, no. 1, pp. 17 - 27, 2004.
Amphisorus hemprichii Mariana Islands X. Pochon, LaJeunesse, T. C., and Pawlowski, J., “Biogeographic partitioning and host specialization among foraminiferan dinoflagellate symbionts (Symbiodinium; Dinophyta)”, Marine Biology, vol. 146, no. 1, pp. 17 - 27, 2004.
Amphisorus hemprichii Gulf of Aqaba J. A. N. PAWLOWSKI, HOLZMANN, M. A. R. I. A., FAHRNI, J. O. S. E. F., Pochon, X., and LEE, J. O. H. N. J., “Molecular Identification of Algal Endosymbionts in Large Miliolid Foraminifera: 2. Dinoflagellates”, The Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, vol. 48, no. 3, pp. 368 - 373, 2001.
Amphisorus hemprichii Gulf of Aqaba X. Pochon, Pawlowski, J., Zaninetti, L., and Rowan, R., “High genetic diversity and relative specificity among Symbiodinium -like endosymbiotic dinoflagellates in soritid foraminiferans”, Marine Biology, vol. 139, no. 6, pp. 1069 - 1078, 2001.
Amphisorus hemprichii Mariana Islands X. Pochon, LaJeunesse, T. C., and Pawlowski, J., “Biogeographic partitioning and host specialization among foraminiferan dinoflagellate symbionts (Symbiodinium; Dinophyta)”, Marine Biology, vol. 146, no. 1, pp. 17 - 27, 2004.
Amphisorus hemprichii Gulf of Aqaba J. A. N. PAWLOWSKI, HOLZMANN, M. A. R. I. A., FAHRNI, J. O. S. E. F., Pochon, X., and LEE, J. O. H. N. J., “Molecular Identification of Algal Endosymbionts in Large Miliolid Foraminifera: 2. Dinoflagellates”, The Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, vol. 48, no. 3, pp. 368 - 373, 2001.
Amphisorus hemprichii B. K. Baillie, Belda-Baillie, C. A., and Maruyama, T., “CONSPECIFICITY AND INDO-PACIFIC DISTRIBUTION OF SYMBIODINIUM GENOTYPES (DINOPHYCEAE) FROM GIANT CLAMS”, Journal of Phycology, vol. 36, no. 6, pp. 1153 - 1161, 2000.
Amphisorus hemprichii J. A. N. PAWLOWSKI, HOLZMANN, M. A. R. I. A., FAHRNI, J. O. S. E. F., Pochon, X., and LEE, J. O. H. N. J., “Molecular Identification of Algal Endosymbionts in Large Miliolid Foraminifera: 2. Dinoflagellates”, The Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, vol. 48, no. 3, pp. 368 - 373, 2001.
Amphisorus hemprichii Elat J. A. N. PAWLOWSKI, HOLZMANN, M. A. R. I. A., FAHRNI, J. O. S. E. F., and Hallock, P., “Molecular Identification of Algal Endosymbionts in Large Miliolid Foraminifera: 1. Chlorophytes”, The Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, vol. 48, no. 3, pp. 362 - 367, 2001.
Amphisorus hemprichii Gulf of Aqaba J. A. N. PAWLOWSKI, HOLZMANN, M. A. R. I. A., FAHRNI, J. O. S. E. F., Pochon, X., and LEE, J. O. H. N. J., “Molecular Identification of Algal Endosymbionts in Large Miliolid Foraminifera: 2. Dinoflagellates”, The Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, vol. 48, no. 3, pp. 368 - 373, 2001.
Amphisorus hemprichii Elat J. A. N. PAWLOWSKI, HOLZMANN, M. A. R. I. A., FAHRNI, J. O. S. E. F., and Hallock, P., “Molecular Identification of Algal Endosymbionts in Large Miliolid Foraminifera: 1. Chlorophytes”, The Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, vol. 48, no. 3, pp. 362 - 367, 2001.
Amphisorus hemprichii Gulf of Aqaba J. A. N. PAWLOWSKI, HOLZMANN, M. A. R. I. A., FAHRNI, J. O. S. E. F., Pochon, X., and LEE, J. O. H. N. J., “Molecular Identification of Algal Endosymbionts in Large Miliolid Foraminifera: 2. Dinoflagellates”, The Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, vol. 48, no. 3, pp. 368 - 373, 2001.
Amphisorus kudakajimaensis Mariana Islands X. Pochon, Garcia-Cuetos, L., Baker, A. C., Castella, E., and Pawlowski, J., “One-year survey of a single Micronesian reef reveals extraordinarily rich diversity of Symbiodinium types in soritid foraminifera”, Coral Reefs, vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 867 - 882, 2007.
Amphisorus kudakajimaensis Mariana Islands X. Pochon, Garcia-Cuetos, L., Baker, A. C., Castella, E., and Pawlowski, J., “One-year survey of a single Micronesian reef reveals extraordinarily rich diversity of Symbiodinium types in soritid foraminifera”, Coral Reefs, vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 867 - 882, 2007.
Amphisorus kudakajimaensis Mariana Islands X. Pochon, Garcia-Cuetos, L., Baker, A. C., Castella, E., and Pawlowski, J., “One-year survey of a single Micronesian reef reveals extraordinarily rich diversity of Symbiodinium types in soritid foraminifera”, Coral Reefs, vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 867 - 882, 2007.