Alexandrium pacificum Litaker
| Common Name | dinoflagellate | ||||
| Collection Site | -38°N 144.93°W Port Phillip Bay, Victoria Australia (lat long apprioximate) | ||||
| Ocean | Indian/South Pacific | ||||
| Sea | Bass Strait | ||||
| Nearest Continent | Australia | ||||
| Collected By | Blackburn,S | ||||
| Collection Date | |||||
| Isolated By | Blackburn,S | ||||
| Isolated Date | 03/03/1988 | ||||
| Identified By | John,U, Murray,S, Litaker, W, Montresor,M, Brosnahan, M, Anderson,D | ||||
| Deposited By | Anderson,D and Kulis,D | ||||
| Deposit Date | 07/30/2014 | ||||
| Strain Synonyms | ACPP01, CS-313/01, RCC4089 | ||||
| Is The Strain Currently Axenic? | No | ||||
| When Was It Last Tested? | 07/24/2015 | ||||
| Other Information | |||||
| Authentic Type/Strain | Yes | ||||
| Morphological Data | flagellate | ||||
| Attributes | Algae, Toxic, Marine, Warm Water | ||||
| Additional Resources | Genbank Genome Transcriptome AlgaeBase | ||||
| Genome Sequence Link | No | ||||
| Medium Used for Maintenance | L1-Si |
| Other Reported Growth Media | L1-Si,f/2-Si |
| Maintenance Temperature (°C) | 20 °C |
| Known Temperature Range (°C) | 18 - 20 °C |
| Cell Length (Min) | 22 |
| Cell Length (Max) | 44 |
| Cell Width (Min) | 20 |
| Cell Width (Max) | 44 |
New daughter set created every three weeks
Daughter set……….…75umol quanta m-2 s-1
Mother set………….…39umol quanta m-2 s-1
Grandmother set….….20umol quanta m-2 s-1
Documentation:
Differential feeding by common heterotrophic protists on 12 different Alexandrium species (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30196918/)
Formal revision of the Alexandrium tamarense species complex (Dinophyceae) taxonomy: the introduction of five species with emphasis on molecular-based (rDNA) classification (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25460230/)