Forrester D J, Gaskin J M, White F H, Thompson N P, Quick J A, Henderson G E, Woodard J C, Robertson W D
J Wildl Dis. 1977 Apr;13(2):160-7. doi: 10.7589/0090-3558-13.2.160.
During February and March, 1974, an epizootic involving lesser scaup (Aythya affinis) occurred in the Tampa Bay area on the west coast of Florida. Several thousand ducks are estimated to have died. Concurrent with this epizootic was a red tide caused by heavy blooms of the toxic dinoflagellate Gymnodinium breve intoxication were evident in some of the lesser scaup. A controlled experimental feeding of G. breve toxic material to White Pekin ducklings produced illness and death with signs comparable to some of those seen in the scaup.
1974年2月至3月期间，佛罗里达州西海岸的坦帕湾地区发生了一场涉及小潜鸭（Aythya affinis）的 epizootic。据估计，有数千只鸭子死亡。与这场 epizootic 同时发生的是由有毒甲藻短裸甲藻大量繁殖引起的赤潮。在一些小潜鸭身上明显出现了中毒症状。给白来航鸭雏喂食短裸甲藻有毒物质的对照实验导致了疾病和死亡，其症状与在小潜鸭身上看到的一些症状相似。
