A variety of microalgal species produce lipophilic toxins (LT) that are accumulated by filter-
feeding bivalves. Their negative impacts on human health and shellfish exploitation are …

Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) have been classified depending on the causative organism
and its impacts: non-toxic HAB (microalgae capable of affecting tourism and causing oxygen …

Harmful algal blooms (HABs) of toxin-producing microalgae, mainly Alexandrium catenella,
Dinophysis spp., and Pseudonitzschia australis, cause the severe illnesses referred to as …

Amphidoma languida, a marine thecate dinoflagellate that produces the lipophilic toxin
azaspiracids (AZAs), is primarily found in the Atlantic. Although this species has not been …

The identification of a new suite of toxins, called azaspiracids (AZA), as the cause of human
illnesses after the consumption of shellfish from the Irish west coast in 1995, resulted in …

The cosmopolitan, potentially toxic dinoflagellate Protoceratium reticulatum possesses a
fossilizable cyst stage which is an important paleoenvironmental indicator. Slight differences …

Prorocentrum comprises dinophytes with several unique traits, including the presence of two
large thecal plates and apical insertion of flagella. Species delimitation for many small and …

Abstract Historical records (1980–2018) of potentially toxic phytoplankton and phycotoxins
on the Argentine Continental Shelf (35° S-56.5° S) and adjacent ocean waters were …

Species of the dinophyte genus Alexandrium are widely distributed and are notorious bloom
formers and producers of various potent phycotoxins. The species Alexandrium taylorii is …

Mediterranean waters have undergone environmental changes during the last decades
leading to various modifications of the structure of phytoplankton populations, especially …