Yes. Amyloodinium ocellatum. Never had chloroplasts or photosynthetic apparatus.
Most references are not new, but it seems to me the photosynthetic myth was just created and repeated by us aquarists.
Check Wayne (attached) for source of this table:
Great, thank you for taking the time to post that. I think you are correct, there are many myths which are propogated and repeated in the hobby. Often it's time consuming/difficult to find the scientific fact.
I think the confusion stems from the fact that the related freshwater dinoflagellate, Oodinium DOES have chloroplasts. Back in the olden days, we called it Oodinium ocellatum. Amyloodinium does not, to my knowledge, have chloroplasts.
Jay
This again makes sense. There are many freshwater references which are often incorrectly transferred to marine. It's the reason that I refuse to refer to Cryptocaryon irritans as Ich/Ick/Whitespot. It usually spawns people advising to raise the temperature etc, which is a strategy for combatting Ichthyophthirius multifiliis, Freshwater whitespot.
I'm proposing to only refer to it as Crypto.. lol
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