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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Clade: | Diaphoretickes |
| Clade: | SAR |
| Clade: | Alveolata |
| Phylum: | Myzozoa |
| Superclass: | Dinoflagellata |
| Class: | Dinophyceae |
| Order: | Gonyaulacales |
| Family: | Gonyaulacaceae |
| Genus: | Gonyaulax Diesing, 1866 |
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Gonyaulax is a genus of dinoflagellates with the type species Gonyaulax spinifera (Claparède et Lachmann) Diesing. Gonyaulax belongs to red dinoflagellates and commonly causes red tides. It can produce yesotoxins: for example, strains of Gonyaulax spinifera from New Zealand are yessotoxin producers.[4]
- ^ syn. G. schuettii Lemmermann 1899 AQUASYMBIO: Gonyaulax polygramma
- ^ syn. Steiniella fragilis Schütt AQUASYMBIO: Gonyaulax fragilis
- ^ Mertens KN, Aydin H, Uzar S, Takano Y, Yamaguchi A, Matsuoka K (2015). "Relationship between the dinoflagellate cyst Spiniferites pachydermus and Gonyaulax ellegaardiae sp. nov. from Izmir Bay, Turkey, and molecular characterization". J. Phycol. 51 (3): 560–73. Bibcode:2015JPcgy..51..560M. doi:10.1111/jpy.12304. PMID 26986670. S2CID 24811284.
- ^ Rhodes, L.A.; McNabb, P.; de Salas, M.; Briggs, L.; Beuzenberg, V.; Gladstone, M. (2006). "Yessotoxin production by Gonyaulax spinifera". Harmful Algae. 5 (2): 148–55. doi:10.1016/j.hal.2005.06.008.