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Distribution of potentially toxic epiphytic dinoflagellates in Saint Martin Island (Caribbean Sea, Lesser Antilles)

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  • 1. Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité, ISYEB, UMR 7205, Équipe Biologie de la Mangrove, Université des Antilles, BP 592, F-97159 Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe (France) aurelie.boisnoir@gmail.com (corresponding author)
  • 2. Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité, ISYEB, UMR 7205, Équipe Biologie de la Mangrove, Université des Antilles, BP 592, F-97159 Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe (France)
  • 3. Ifremer, Département Océanographie et Dynamique des Écosystèmes, Unité Littoral, Laboratoire Environnement littoral et Ressources aquacoles Bretagne-Occidentale, Station de Biologie Marine de Concarneau, Place de la Croix, F-29900 Concarneau (France)
  • 4. Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche, LOV, F-06230 Villefranche-sur-Mer (France)

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Boisnoir, Aurélie, Pascal, Pierre Yves, Chomérat, Nicolas, Lemée, Rodolphe (2020): Distribution of potentially toxic epiphytic dinoflagellates in Saint Martin Island (Caribbean Sea, Lesser Antilles). Cryptogamie, Algologie 20 (7): 47-54, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-algologie2020v41a7, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5252/cryptogamie-algologie2020v41a7

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