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Some species are endosymbionts of marine animals and play an important part in the biology of coral reefs. Other dinoflagellates are colorless predators on other protozoa, and a few forms are parasitic (see for example Oodinium, Pfiesteria).Some dinoflagellates produce resting stages, called dinoflagellate cysts or dinocysts, as part of their life cycles.Dinoflagellates are considered to be protists, with their own division, Dinoflagellata.ost photosynthetic species contain chlorophylls a and c2, the carotenoid beta-carotene, and a group of xanthophylls that appears to be unique to dinoflagellates, typically peridinin, dinoxanthin, and diadinoxanthin. These pigments give many dinoflagellates their typical goldenbrown color.
Not all are photosynthetic, some are symbiotic-living in the cells of their hosts. Zooxanthallae are the most common symbiotic dinoflagellates and are found in many marine invertebrates such as sponges, corals, jellyfish, flatworms, and other protists.About one half are heterotrophic; they eat other plankton. Sometimes they eat each other by snaring or stinging their prey.inoflagellates are unicellular protists and are usually planktonic-ninety percent are marine plankton. They are small; many are microscopic, although the largest, Noctiluca, is 2 mm in diameter. Dinoflagellates are motile and swim by two flagella, which are movable protein strands.