Bibliographic Detail
N'Yeurt, A.D.R. & Payri, C.E., 2009
Reference:
N'Yeurt, A.D.R. & Payri, C.E. (2009). Four new species of Rhodophyceae from Fiji, Polynesia and Vanuatu, South Pacific. Phycological Research 57: 12-24.
Abstract:
Four new species of Rhodophyceae are described from
the South Pacific, with type localities in Fiji, French
Polynesia and Vanuatu. Chondria bullata from the Tuamotus
(French Polynesia), Vanuatu, Palmerston Atoll
(Cook Islands) and Fiji is unique owing to its nonconstricted
axes with markedly protruding, bubble-like
cortical cells. Halymenia nukuhivensis, from the Marquesas
Islands in French Polynesia, is distinguished
from others in the genus by its dichotomous, papery
blades issued from a strap-shaped basal region, and the
equal proportion of anti-clinal, periclinal and oblique
filaments in its medullary layer. Jania articulata, so far
known only from the Tuamotus in French Polynesia and
Manihiki in the Northern Cook Islands, superficially
resembles the genus Amphiroa with its articulated
branches with numerous genicula between successive
dichotomies, and its large axis diameter. Meristotheca
peltata from the Fiji Islands is unique among the genus
by its distinctly peltate, erect habit. The recent high
number of newly described species from the South
Pacific region emphasizes the need for more in-depth
surveys, particularly in deeper outer reef slope habitats,
which remain for the most part unexplored and could
yield particularly interesting new taxa or distributional
records.
