Acknowledgements This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos.30970501 and 31270252). We thank the staff at the Research Group of Algae Taxonomy and Resources Utilization, Institute of Hydrobiology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IHB, CAS) for helpful suggestions.
A heterotrophic dinoflagellate was identified as Diplopsalis caspica Ostenfeld by morphological characteristics, with the plate formula: Po, x, 3′, 1a, 6″, 4c, 4s, 5″′, 1″″. The newly recorded dinoflagellate wa...
supported by a grant from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.40830850);the International Cooperation and Exchange of the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.40931160437)
Endosymbiotic dinoflagellates in the genus Symbiodinium are among the most abundant and important group of photosynthetic protists fotmd in coral reef ecosystems. In order to further characterize this diversity and co...