Bibliographic Detail
Lin, S.-M. & Freshwater, D.W., 2008
Reference:
Lin, S.-M. & Freshwater, D.W. (2008). The red algal genus Gelidiella (Gelidiales, Rhodophyta) from Taiwan, including Gelidiella fanii sp. nov. Phycologia 47: 168-176.
Abstract:
In this study, we document two species of the genus Gelidiella from Taiwan including a new species, Gelidiella fanii sp.
nov., from eastern and southern Taiwan. Although the type specimen of Gelidiella acerosa from Yemen was not
available during this study, analyses of rbcL sequences indicate that specimens identified as G. acerosa from the
Caribbean Sea, southeastern Australia, and the Indo-Pacific oceans and G. fanii from Taiwan are clearly separate
species. Gelidiella fanii differs morphologically from Taiwan G. acerosa specimens in having strict unilateral branching,
cylindrical to compressed erect axes, numerous surface hairs on the distal ends of branches and branchlets, iridescent
thalli, and smaller tetrasporangia.
