Burns, Mitchell: Some coastal marine dinoflagel . . .

New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research abstracts

Some coastal marine dinoflagellates from around New Zealand

D. A. BURNS J. S. MITCHELL

New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Department of Scientific and Industrial Research P.O. Box 12-346 Wellington North, New Zealand

Abstract Species of marine dinoflagellates belonging to the Families Oxytoxaceae, Podolam-padaceae, Heterodiniaceae, and Prorocentraceae are described for the first time from New Zealand coastal waters. Some notes are given on the morphology and range of morphological variations in the New Zealand specimens as seen in the scanning electron microscope.

Keywords Dinoflagellata; Oxytoxaceae; Podolampadaceae; Heterodiniaceae; Prorocentraceae; morphology; scanning electron microscopy; new records.

New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 1982, Vol. 16 : 69-79Received 28 October 1981; revised 29 January 1982

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