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Maria A Faust1, Mark W Vandersea1, Steven R Kibler1

  • 1Department of Botany, United States National Herbarium, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, 4210 Silver Hill Road, Suitland, Maryland 20746, USANOS/NOAA, Center for Coastal Fisheries and Habitat Research, 101 Pivers Island Road, Beaufort, North Carolina 28516, USA.

Journal of Phycology
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PubMed

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BelizeDinophyceaeProrocentralesProrocentrum belizeanumbenthiccoral reefdinoflagellatemacroalgaemangrovemorphologyphylogenyscanning electron microscopytaxonomy

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