A scanning electron and light microscopy study of the red tide dinoflagellate Gymnodinium sp. from False Bay, South Africa

• Main Author: Dawood, Abeda
• Other Authors: Bolton, John J
• Format: Bachelor Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Cape Town 1990
• Subjects: Botany; False Bay; Pacific; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/25885; https://open.uct.ac.za/bitstream/11427/25885/1/Dawood_A_scanning_1990_1.pdf

A previously unrecorded red tide dinoflagellate bloomed in False Bay during 1988 and 1989, causing faunal mortalities as well as eye, nose and lung irritations to bathers and fishermen. Light microscopy and scanning electron microscopy was used in an attempt to identify this species which shared cer...