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Oxytoxum elegans

species of dinoflagellates in the order Peridiniales

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ27998915 ↗
Source-derived summary

Oxytoxum elegans is a species of dinoflagellates in the order Prorocentrales that was formerly classified as belonging to Peridiniales. It is found in the Gulf of Mexico, the Lebanese Exclusive Economic Zone waters and the North Atlantic Ocean.

References

Gómez, F. (2005). A list of free-living dinoflagellate species in the world's oceans. Acta Bot. Croat. 64(1): 129-212.

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“Oxytoxum elegans” enters the record as species of dinoflagellates in the order Peridiniales. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Oxytoxum, elegans and species can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewUseful for establishing the present vocabulary of the subject while preserving a route back to the evidence on which that vocabulary rests. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2005—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Oxytoxum, elegans and species.
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“Oxytoxum elegans” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Oxytoxum, elegans and species provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Stable identifiers, scientific names and standards terminology offer the best bridge between this overview and specialist evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q27998915. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2005.

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This entry incorporates text from “Oxytoxum elegans” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.