UNESCO Harmful Algae News NO.24

A cyano-anomaly? Cyanobacterial toxins as contributors to Lesser Flamingo mass deaths (Kenya), Geoffrey A. Codd, James S. Metcalf, Louise F. Morrison, Lothar Krienitz, Andreas Ballot, Stephan Pflugmacher, Claudia Wiegand & Kiplagat Kotut …………………………..1

First record of Fibrocapsa cf. japonica in Matanchen Bay, Nayarit, Mexican Pacific coast, Maria del Carmen Corses Lara, Roberto Cortes Altamirano & Amilcar Cupul Magaña………1

X HAB Model Group, John Walsh………2

ECOHAB PNW, A New West Coast, USA, Multidisciplinary Program, B. Hickey, E. Lessard, V Trainer, M. Foreman, E. Pern, R. Thomson, W. Cochlan, M. Wells, L. Cornell & C. Trick  ……..…4

Prorocentrum mexicanum and Prorocentrum rhathymum are different species (Mexico), Roberto Cortés Altamirano, Arturo Sierra Beltran & Maribelle Vargas Montero…………..8

HABs due to Alexandrium tamarense on the Pacific coast of Colombia, Roberto Cortés Altamirano, Ingrid García Hansen & Arturo Sierra Beltran …………9

Elusive red tides in Kuwait coastal waters, D.V. Subba Rao, J.M. Al-Hassan , F. Al-Yamani, K. Al-Rafaie, W. Ismail, C.V. Nageswara Rao & M. Al-Hassan……..10

Harmful epiphytic dinoflagellate on Tyrrhenian Sea reefs (Italy), Franco Simoni, Antonio Gaddi, Claudio Di Paolo & Letizia Lepri …..13

Future events…………………15