Porphyra purpurea (Roth) C.Agardh

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Rhodophyta
Subphylum Eurhodophytina
Class Bangiophyceae
Subclass Bangiophycidae
Order Bangiales
Family Bangiaceae
Genus Porphyra

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male and female, North of Portugal, 2010. 09 Dec 2011. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

female, North of Portugal, 2010,. 09 Dec 2011. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

female, North of Portugal, 2010. 09 Dec 2011. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

male and female sectors of blade, North of Portugal, Buarcos, 2006. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

microscope male plant (spermatangia section), North of Portugal, Buarcos, 2006. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

microscope male and female (Section), North of Portugal, Forte do Cao, 2002. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

microscope male and female (surface view), North of Portugal, Forte do Cao, 2002. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

microscope female plant with trichogynes, North of Portugal, Buarcos, 2006. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

microscope showing zygotosporangia (carposporangia), North of Portugal, Buarcos, 2006. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

microscope female with trichogynes, North of Portugal, Forte do Cao, 2002. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

Porphyra purpurea (Roth) C.Agardh female, North of Portugal, 2010

Publication details
Porphyra purpurea (Roth) C.Agardh 1824: 191

Original publication: Agardh, C.A. (1824). Systema Algarum. pp. [i]-xxxvii, [1]-312. Lundae [Lund]: Literis Berlingianis [Berling].
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Type species
This is the type species (holotype) of the genus Porphyra.

Status of name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.

Basionym
Ulva purpurea Roth

Type information
Neotype locality: Nord-Ost Watt, Helgoland (Brodie & Irvine 1997: 769). Neotype: A. Wagner; 17 October 1996; BM (Brodie & Irvine 1997: 769). Notes: The original material, now lost, was collected at Eckwarden, Niedersachsen, Germany. BM000054930 (Sutherland et al. 2011).

Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), purple (Stearn 1973).

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Ulva purpurea Roth 1797
Ulva umbilicalis var. purpurea (Roth) Wahlenberg 1812
Phyllona purpurea (Roth) Wallroth 1833

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Ulva purpureoviolacea Roth 1788
Porphyra vulgaris C.Agardh 1827
Porphyra amethystea Kützing 1843
Porphyra purpureo-violacea (Roth) V.Krishnamurthy 1972
Porphyra rediviva J.W.Stiller & J.R.Waaland 1996

General environment
This is a marine species.

Common names

(as Porphyra purpurea (Roth) C.Agardh)
English: Purple Laver (Bunker et al. 2010).

(as Porphyra vulgaris C.Agardh)
English: Laver (Kirby 1953).

Japanese: Asakusa nori, Hoshinori (Kirby 1953).

Usage notes
High antioxidant activity (Zubia et al. 2009). - (24 Mar 2010) - Wendy Guiry

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Porphyra purpurea (Roth) C.Agardh)
Ireland: Antrim (Morton 1994), Clare (Pybus 1977, Guiry 1978, De Valéra et al. 1979), Cork (Guiry 1978), Derry (Morton 1994), Donegal (Morton 2003), Down (Morton 1994), Kerry (Guiry 1978).

Europe: Baltic Sea (Nielsen et al. 1995), Britain (Brodie & Irvine 1997, Guiry 1997, Hardy & Guiry 2003), Denmark (Larsen & Sand-Jensen 2006), Faroe Islands (Irvine 1982, Nielsen & Gunnarsson 2001), France (Coppejans 1995, Dizerbo & Herpe 2007, Zubia et al. 2009, Anon. 2012), Greece (Gerloff & Geissler 1974, Haritonidis & Tsekos 1976, Tsekos & Haritonidis 1977), Helgoland (Bartsch & Kuhlenkamp 2000), Ireland (Pybus 1977, Guiry 1978, De Valéra et al. 1979, Morton 1994, Guiry 2012), Italy (Furnari, Cormaci & Serio 1999), Netherlands (Stegenga & Mol 1983, Stegenga, Kaaremans & Simons 2007), Norway (Rueness 1997), Portugal (Cremades et al., 2002, Araújo et al., 2003, Araujo et al. 2009, Araújo, Bárbara & Sousa-Pinto in press), Scandinavia (Athanasiadis 1996), Spain (Granja, Cremades & Barbara 1992, Bárbara, Cremades & Pérez-Cirera 1995, Bárbara & Cremades 1996, Peña & Bárbara 2002, Bárbara et al. 2005, Cires Rodriguez & Cuesta Moliner 2010).

Atlantic Islands: Faroe Islands (Mols-Mortensen et al. 2012), Greenland (Pedersen 2011), Iceland (Caram & Jónsson 1972, Mols-Mortensen et al. 2012).

North America: Alaska (Scagel et al. 1989), British Columbia (Scagel et al. 1989), Labrador (Kucera & Saunders 2012), Maine (Mathieson et al. 2001, Klein et al. 2003, Kucera & Saunders 2012), New Brunswick (Klein et al. 2003, Bates et al. 2005, Teasdale et al. 2009, Kucera & Saunders 2012), Newfoundland (Kucera & Saunders 2012), Nova Scotia (Klein et al. 2003, Kucera & Saunders 2012), Quebec (Kucera & Saunders 2012).

South-west Asia: Pakistan (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Sri Lanka (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996).

Asia: Japan (Yoshida, Nakajima & Nakata 1990), Kamchatka (Selivanova & Zhigadlova 2009), Russia (Perestenko 1980, Kozhenkova 2009).

Australia and New Zealand: Australia (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996).

(as Porphyra vulgaris C.Agardh)
Ireland: Antrim (Drummond 1837, McMillan & Morton 1979).

Europe: Balearic Islands (Colmeiro, M. 1868, Barceló 1879-1881), Ireland (Drummond 1837, McMillan & Morton 1979), Turkey (Europe) (Güven & Öztig 1971).

(as Porphyra amethystea Kützing)
Ireland: Galway (Kützing 1843).

Europe: Britain (Newton 1931, Guiry 1997), Ireland (Newton 1931, Newton 1931).

(as Porphyra purpureo-violacea (Roth) V.Krishnamurthy)
Europe: Helgoland (Kornmann & Sahling 1991, Guiry 1997).

North America: Alaska (Lindstrom 1977).

(as Porphyra rediviva J.W.Stiller & J.R.Waaland)
North America: California (Miller 2012), Oregon (Hansen 1997), Washington (Lindstrom & Fredericq 2003, Stiller & Waaland 1996).

Taxonomic notes
See Brodie et al. (1996) regarding the name and selection of a neotype. According to Guiry (1997) this species requires taxonomic reinvestigation and recommends consulting Kornmann & Sahling (1991).

Nomenclatural notes
The correct author citation of this species is (Roth) C.Agardh since the proposal put forward by Irvine & Brodie (1997) to conserve the illegitimate name Ulva purpurea Roth, against the legitimate Ulva purpureo-violacea Roth, was approved at the XVI International Botanical Congress (St. Louis, Missouri, 26-30 July 1999) (Barrie & Greuter, 1999).

Key references
Braune, W. (2008). Meeresalgen. Ein Farbbildführer zu den verbreiteten benthischen Grün- Braun- und Rotalgen der Weltmeere. pp. [1]-596, pls 1-266 (colour photographs). Ruggell: A.R.G. Gantner Verlag.

Klein, A.S, Mathieson, A.C., Neefus, C.D., Cain, D.C., Taylor, H.A., Teasdale, B.W., West, A.L., Hehre, E.J., Brodie, J., Yarish, C. & Wallace, A.L. (2003). Identification of north-western Atlantic Porphyra (Bangiaceae, Bangiales) based on sequence variation in nuclear SSU and plastid rbcL genes. Phycologia 42: 109-122, 3 figs, 5 tables.

Lindstrom, S.C. & Fredericq, S. (2003). rbcL gene sequences reveal relationships among north-east Pacific species of Porphyra (Bangiales, Rhodophyta) and a new species, P. aestivalis. Phycological Research 51(3): 211-224.

Pedersen, P.M. (2011). Grønlands havalger. pp. [1] 7-208. Copenhagen: Forlaget Epsilon.DK.

Stiller, J.W., Perry, J., Rymarquis, L.A., Accerbi, M., Green, P.J., Prochnik, S., Lindquist, E., Chan, C.X., Yarish, C., Lin., S., Zhuang, Y., Blouin, N.A. & Brawley, S.H. (2012). Major developmental regulators and their expression in two closely related species of Porphyra (Rhodophyta). Journal of Phycology 48(4): 883-896.

Teasdale, B.W., West, A., Klein, A.S. & Mathieson, A.C. (2009). Distribution and evolution of variable group-I introns in the small ribosomal subunit of North Atlantic Porphyra (Bangiales, Rhodophyta). European Journal of Phycology 44(2): 171-182, 3 figs, 5 tables.

SAG Cultures
SAG Cultures may be viewed at http://sagdb.uni-goettingen.de/showstrains.php?genus=Porphyra&species=purpurea

SCCAP Cultures
Cultures from the Scandinavian Culture Collection of Algae at the University of Copenhagen (SCCAP) and Protozoa may be viewed at http://www.sccap.dk/search/algaebase.asp?Genus=Porphyra&Species=purpurea

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 31 March 1996 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 23 October 2012 by Wendy Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 7142 times since it was created.

References
(Please note: only references with the binomials in the title are included. The information is from the Literature database.)

Bray, T.L., Neefus, C.D. & Mathieson, A.C. (2007). A morphological and molecular investigation of Porphyra purpurea (Bangiales, Rhodophyta) complex in the Northwest Atlantic. Nova Hedwigia 84: 277-298.
Brodie, J. & Irvine, L.M. (1997). A comparison of Porphyra dioica sp. nov. and P. purpurea (Roth) C. Ag. (Rhodophyta: Bangiophycidae) in Europe. Cryptogamie, Algologie 18: 283-297.
Chopin, T., Morais, T., Belyea, E. & Belfry, S. (2004). Polyphosphate and siliceous granules in the macroscopic gametophytes of the red alga Porphyra purpurea (Bangiophyceae, Rhodophyta). Botanica Marina 47: 272-280, 3 figs, 1 table.
Kraemer, G.P. & Yarish, C. (1999). A preliminary comparison of the mariculture potential of Porphyra purpurea and Porphyra umbilicalis. Journal of Applied Phycology 11: 473-477.
Liu, Q.Y. & Reith, M. (1996). A sporophyte cell wall protein of the red alga Porphyra purpurea (Rhodophyta) is a novel member of the chymotrypsin family of serine proteases. Journal of Phycology 32: 1003-1009, 4 figs.
Liu, Q.Y., Ross, N., Lanthier, P. & Reith, M. (1996). A gametophyte cell wall protein of the red alga Porphyra purpurea (Rhodophyta) contains four apparent polysaccharide-binding domains. Journal of Phycology 32: 995-1003, 5 figs.
Liu, Q.Y., van der Meer, J.P. & Reith, M.E. (1994). Isolation and characterization of phase-specific complementary DNAs from sporophytes and gametophytes of Porphyra purpurea (Rhodophyta) using subtracted complementary DNA libraries. Journal of Phycology 30: 513-520, 3 figs, 1 table.
MacKay, R.M. & Gallant, J.W. (2002). The ß-tubulin gene of Porphyra purpurea (Rhodophyta). Journal of Phycology 38: 1020-1023.
Minocha, S.C., Hunt, M. & Mathews, D.E. (2009). Molecular characterization of four genes involved in sulfur metabolism in Porphyra purpurea (Roth) C. Agardh. Proceedings of the International Seaweed Symposium 19: 333-345, 2 figs, 1 table.
Mitman, G.G. & van der Meer, J.P. (1994). Meiosis, blade development, and sex determination in Porphyra purpurea (Rhodophyta). Journal of Phycology 30: 147-159, 17 figs, 3 tables.

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