Economic importance of Dinoflagellates
- Gymnodinium and Gonyaulax make the water look red causing red tides.
- Gonyaulax catenella produces a neurotoxin, saxitoxin, which can cause causing paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) in the vertebrates when shellfish infected by saxitoxin is consumed by vertebrates.
- Noctiluca shows bioluminescence i.e. they emit light.
Noctiluca shows bioluminescence.
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