Revision of the Black Sea dinoflagelate checklist
Journal: Algologia
Year: 2025

As a result of the critical and systematic revision of the Black Sea superclass Dinoflagellata, the checklist was updated. It currently includes 386 species (396 ist), which belong to 5 classes, 17 orders, 51 families and 95 genera. Among them, 39 species are cosmopolitan, 17 are widespread in the world, 8 are euryhaline, 30 are toxic and 35 are bioluminescent. After 2018, 28 new species were found, unique to each water area: 14 for Bulgarian waters, 6 for Ukrainian, 5 for Turkish and 1 each for