Abstract

GARATE-LIZARRAGA, Ismael; BAND-SCHMIDT, Christine; CERVANTES-DUARTE, Rafael  and  ESCOBEDO-URIAS, Diana. Mesodinium rubrum red (Lohmann) Hamburger y Buddenbrock tides in the Gulf of Calífornia (Winter, 1998). Hidrobiológica [online]. 2002, vol.12, n.1, pp.15-20. ISSN 0188-8897.

During the winter of 1998 (from 28 January to 10 March) 13 samples from red tides of the photosynthetic protozoan Mesodinium rubrum were collected in the Gulf of California. In all the cases, the seawater temperature was recorded, which varied from 20.3 to 23.2°C. The salinity, dissolved oxygen, pH, nutrients concentrations, were determined in the blooms observed in the coasts of Sinaloa. The salinity varied between 34.71 to 35.25. The dissolved oxygen varied between 5.29 to 6.78 ml/l. and the pH varied from 8.16 to 8.27. The nitrate concentrations varied between 0.05 and 0.41 µM, meanwhile the nitrite had a low variation between 0.05 and 0.22 µM, showing a relation to M. rubrum abundance, which ranged from 254 to 19,993 cels.ml⁻¹. Mortality of jellyfish and fish was observed during the red tide presented in the southern part of the gulf.

Keywords : Red tides; Mesodinium rubrum; marine protozoan; upwelling; Gulf of California.

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