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Gonyaulax

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Gonyaulax /Gony·au·lax/ (gon″e-aw´laks) a genus of dinoflagellates found in fresh, salt, or brackish waters, having yellow to brown chromatophores; it includes G. catanel´la, a poisonous species, which helps to form the destructive red tide in the ocean; see also under poison.
Gonyaulax
poisonous dinoflagellate which render shellfish eating them poisonous to animals eating the shellfish.


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In the ocean, the brownish, single-celled alga Gonyaulax polyedra puts on an unusual light show.
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