Symbiodinium- clade G

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

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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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Amphisorus hemprichii Guam 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.
Marginopora vertebralis Guam 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.