Cochlodinium

Cochlodinium is a genus of dinoflagellates belonging to the family Gymnodiniaceae.^[1] Over the past two decades, harmful algea blooms (HABs) caused by Cochlodinium had occurred more often and expanded from Southeast Asia to regions such as the rest of Asia, North America and Europe.^[2]

Cochlodinium
A Cochlodinium polykrikoides bloom
Micrograph of Cochlodinium polykrikoides
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Clade:	Sar
Clade:	Alveolata
Phylum:	Dinoflagellata
Class:	Dinophyceae
Order:	Gymnodiniales
Family:	Gymnodiniaceae
Genus:	Cochlodinium F.Schütt
Type species
Cochlodinium strangulatum

Due to an absence of molecular data for Cochlodinium, finding out its classification has been challenging for scientist, especially for the type species Cochlodinium strangulatum.^[3]

This genus has 40 species total, most of which are hetrotrophic:^[1][4]

• Cochlodinium achromaticum Lebour
• Cochlodinium acutum A.Cleve
• Cochlodinium adriaticum (J.Schiller) J.Schiller
• Cochlodinium brandtii
• Cochlodinium convolutum
• Cochlodinium fulvescens
• Cochlodinium geminatum
• Cochlodinium helix
• Cochlodinium pirum^[5]
• Cochlodinium pupa
• Cochlodinium polykrikoides
• Cochlodinium strangulatum