Pterocladiella capillacea (S.G.Gmelin) Santelices & Hommersand

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Rhodophyta
Subphylum Eurhodophytina
Class Florideophyceae
Subclass Rhodymeniophycidae
Order Gelidiales
Family Pterocladiaceae
Genus Pterocladiella

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TS, Ría de Arousa, Galicia, Spain, 2006. 09 Dec 2011. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

TS, Barizo, Galicia, Spain, 2010. 09 Dec 2011. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

LS, Barizo, Galicia, Spain, 2010. 09 Dec 2011. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

09 Dec 2011. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

Hawaii. J.M. Huisman. © J.M. Huisman.

Hawaii; transverse section, arrow indicates rhizines; scale 20 µm. 15 Aug 2011. J.M. Huisman. © J.M. Huisman. From: Huisman JM, Abbott IA, Smith CM (2007). Hawaiian reef plants. University of Hawaii Sea Grant College Program, Honolulu. 264 p. Available from Seagrant, University of Hawai'i.

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Cladophora utriculosa var. diffusa Hauck

Pterocladiella capillacea (S.G.Gmelin) Santelices & Hommersand Hawaii

Publication details
Pterocladiella capillacea (S.G.Gmelin) Santelices & Hommersand 1997: 118, figs 1a, 2b, 3b, 4, 5

Original publication: Santelices, B. & Hommersand, M. (1997). Pterocladiella, a new genus in the Gelidiaceae (Gelidiales, Rhodophyta). Phycologia 36: 114-119.

Type species
This is the type species (holotype) of the genus Pterocladiella.

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

Basionym
Fucus capillaceus S.G.Gmelin

Type information
Type locality: Locus, Mare mediterraneum [Mediterranean Sea] (Gmelin 1768: 146). Lectotype: original illustration (Gmelin , 1768, pl. 15 fig.1). (epitype) (Womersley & Guiry 1994: 139).

Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), capillarg, hair-like, thread-like (Stearn 1973).

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Fucus capillaceus S.G.Gmelin 1768
Gelidium capillaceum (S.G.Gmelin) Meneghini 1854
Gelidium capillaceum (S.G.Gmelin) Meneghini 1854
Pterocladia capillacea (S.G.Gmelin) Bornet 1876

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Fucus pinnatus Hudson 1762
Fucus corneus var. pinnatus (Hudson) Goodenough & Woodward 1797
Gelidium corneum f. clavatum Ardissone 1874
Gelidium pyramidale N.L.Gardner 1927
Pterocladia densa Okamura 1934
Gelidium okamurae Setchell & N.L.Gardner 1937
Pterocladia pyramidale (Gardner) Dawson 1945
Pterocladia mexicana W.R.Taylor 1945
Pterocladia robusta W.R.Taylor 1945
Pterocladia okamurae (Setchell & N.L.Gardner) W.R.Taylor 1945
Pterocladia complanata N.H.Loomis 1949
Pterocladia pinnata (Hudson) Papenfuss 1950
Pterocladia lindaueri K.C.Fan 1961

General environment
This is a Marine species.

Common names

(as Pterocladia capillacea (S.G.Gmelin) Bornet)
Chinese: Yimaocai (Santelices 1988).

Japanese: Obakusa (Arasaki & Arasaki 1983).

(as Pterocladiella capillacea (S.G.Gmelin) Santelices & Hommersand)
English: Branched Wing Weed (Bunker et al. 2010).

Japanese: Kata-obakusa (Shimada & Masuda 2002).

Description
Cartilaginous, dark purplish-red, flattened fronds, 2 mm wide, to 200 mm high. Pinnate or bipinnate, often bare at base, branches opposite or alternate, often tapering at both ends; frequently give a 'Christmas-tree' appearance. Fronds in loose tuft from a rhizoidal base.

Habitat
In large pools and lagoons in the lower intertidal and shallow subtidal, widely distributed on south and south-western shores, never common.

Key characteristics
Larger, darker and more purplish-red than Gelidium pusillum or G. pulchellum; normally, Pterocladia is not found fringing the edges of pools like the latter. Main axes are generally more flattened and apices more obtuse than G. pulchellum.

Similar species
Gelidium sesquipedale is known only a restricted number of localities in SW Britain (mainly Cornwall) although it is much commoner in N France; this species is larger and relatively less flattened.

Distribution by country

Point data for Ireland and Britain

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Detailed distribution with sources
(as Pterocladia capillacea (S.G.Gmelin) Bornet)
Ireland: Antrim (Morton 1994), Clare (Guiry 1978, De Valéra et al. 1979, Maggs 1983), Cork (Cullinane 1971, Guiry 1978), Donegal (Dixon & Irvine 1977, Guiry 1978), Galway (Guiry 1978, Maggs 1983), Kerry (Guiry 1978), Mayo (Cotton 1912, Guiry 1978), Sligo (Guiry 1978), Waterford (Guiry 1977, Guiry 1978), Wexford (Dixon & Irvine 1977, Guiry 1978).

Europe: Adriatic (Ercegovic 1980), Balearic Islands (, Mazza 1904, Bellón 1921, Navarro & Bellón 1945, Ribera Siguán 1983, Ribera Siguán & Gómez Garreta 1984), Britain (Newton 1931, Dixon & Irvine 1977, Guiry 1997), Bulgaria (Dimitrova-Konaklieva 1981), Corsica (Rodríguez Prieto, Boudouresque & Marcot-Coqueugniot 1993), France (Feldmann 1939, Ben Maiz, Boudouresque, Lauret & Riouall 1988, Dizerbo & Herpe 2007), Greece (Diannelidis 1953, Gerloff & Geissler 1974, Haritonidis & Tsekos 1976, Tsekos & Haritonidis 1977, Athanasiadis 1987), Ireland (Cotton 1912, Cullinane 1971, Guiry 1977, Guiry 1978, De Valéra et al. 1979, Maggs 1983, Morton 1994), Malta (Price 1970, Cormaci et al. 1997), Portugal (Ardré 1970), Spain (Lázaro Ibiza 1889, Sauvageau 1897, Bellón 1921, Hamel 1928, Miranda 1931, Bellón 1940, Bellón 1942, Seoane-Camba 1957, Ardré 1957, Fischer-Piette, C. & Seoane Camba, J. (1962), Seoane-Camba 1965, Ballesteros 1981, Ballesteros & Romero 1982, Gallardo & Pérez-Cirera 1982, Fernández & Niell 1982, Boisset & Barceló 1984, Gallardo et al. 1985, Anadón & Fernández 1986, Rodriguez Prieto & Polo Alberti 1988, Soto & Conde 1989, Pérez-Cirera 1989, Flores-Moya, Vera-Gonzalez & Conde 1989, Granja, Cremades & Barbara 1992, Conde Poyales 1992, Bárbara, Cremades & Pérez-Cirera 1995, Conde et al. 1996, Bárbara & Cremades 1996), Turkey (Europe) (Güven & Öztig 1971, Cirik, Zeybeck, Aysel & Cirik 1990).

Atlantic Islands: Azores (Neto 1994, Tittley & Neto 1994), Canary Islands (Børgesen 1927, Gil-Rodríguez & Afonso-Carrillo 1980, Lawson et al. 1995, Guadalupe et al. 1995), Madeira (Levring 1974).

North America: Baja California (Stewart 1992), California (Abbott & Hollenberg 1976, Santelices & Stewart 1985, Stewart 1992), Channel Islands, California (Stewart 1992).

Caribbean Islands: Trinidad (Richardson 1975).

South America: Brazil (Oliveira Filho 1977), Chile (Santelices 1989, Ramírez & Santelices 1991), Peru (Ramírez & Santelices 1991).

Africa: Cameroon (Lawson & John 1987), Côte d'Ivorie (Lawson & John 1987), Egypt (Aleem 1993), Gabon (Lawson & John 1987), Gambia (Lawson & John 1987), Ghana (Lawson & John 1987), Kenya (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Liberia (Lawson & John 1987), Madagascar (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Mauritius (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Morocco (Dangeard 1949), Sierra Leone (Lawson & John 1987), Somalia (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Tanzania (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Tunisia (Meñez & Mathieson 1981, Ben Maiz, Boudouresque & Quahchi 1987).

South-west Asia: Israel (Nemlich & Danin 1964), Yemen (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996).

Asia: China (Santelices 1988, Chang & Xia 1988), Japan (Shimada & Masuda 2002), Korea (Lee & Kim 1995, Wiriyadamrikul et al. 2010), Taiwan (Chang & Xia 1988).

South-east Asia: Indonesia (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Philippines (Silva, Meñez & Moe 1987).

Australia and New Zealand: Australia (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), New South Wales (Millar 1990, Womersley & Guiry 1994), New Zealand (Adams 1994, Nelson & Phillips 1996, Adams 1997), Queensland (Womersley & Guiry 1994, Cribb 1996, Phillips 1997), South Australia (Womersley & Guiry 1994), Tasmania (Womersley & Guiry 1994), Victoria (Womersley & Guiry 1994), Western Australia (Huisman & Walker 1990, Womersley & Guiry 1994).

Pacific Islands: Easter Island (Santelices & Abbott 1987), Hawaiian Islands (Rodríguez & Santelices 1988).

(as Gelidium pyramidale N.L.Gardner)
North America: California (Gardner 1927).

Asia: Japan (Yoshida, Nakajima & Nakata 1990).

(as Pterocladia densa Okamura)
Asia: Japan (Okamura 1936, Segawa 1981, Yoshida, Nakajima & Nakata 1990).

South-east Asia: Philippines (Silva, Meñez & Moe 1987).

(as Pterocladia pyramidale (Gardner) Dawson)
South America: Peru (Acleto 1973).

(as Pterocladia mexicana W.R.Taylor)
North America: Baja California (Taylor 1945).

(as Pterocladia robusta W.R.Taylor)
South America: Galápagos Islands (Taylor 1945).

(as Pterocladia okamurae (Setchell & N.L.Gardner) W.R.Taylor)
South America: Galápagos Islands (Taylor 1945).

(as Pterocladia complanata N.H.Loomis)
North America: Mexico (Dawson 1953).

(as Pterocladia pinnata (Hudson) Papenfuss)
Europe: Adriatic (Giaccone 1978), Corsica (Boudouresque & Perret 1977, Coppejans 1979), France (Feldmann 1954), Italy (Giaccone 1969, Feoli & Bressan 1972, Cinelli et al. 1976).

Central America: Costa Rica (Taylor 1960), El Salvador (Fernández-García et al. 2011).

Caribbean Islands: Barbados (Taylor 1969), Hispaniola (Taylor 1960), Lesser Antilles (Taylor 1969), Trinidad (Taylor 1960), Virgin Islands (Taylor 1960).

South America: Brazil (Joly 1957, Taylor 1960, Joly 1965), Colombia (Taylor 1960), Uruguay (Taylor 1960), Venezuela (Taylor 1960).

South-east Asia: Vietnam (Pham-Hoàng 1969).

Pacific Islands: Federated States of Micronesia (Lobban & Tsuda 2003).

(as Pterocladia lindaueri K.C.Fan)
Australia and New Zealand: New Zealand (Adams 1994).

(as Pterocladiella capillacea (S.G.Gmelin) Santelices & Hommersand)
Ireland: Donegal (Morton 2003).

Europe: Britain (Hardy & Guiry 2003), Bulgaria (Berov et al. 2012), France (Verlaque 2001, Anon. 2012, Bárbara & Díaz Tapia 2012), Ireland (Guiry 2012), Italy (Cecere et al. 1996, Furnari, Cormaci & Serio 1999, Rindi, Sartoni & Cinelli 2002, Perrone et al 2006, Serio et al 2006), Portugal (Araujo, R., I. Bárbara, I. Sousa-Pinto & V. Quintino (2005), Araújo et al. 2006, Araujo et al. 2009, Araújo, Bárbara & Sousa-Pinto in press), Spain (Veiga, Cremades & Bárbara 1998, Sánchez, Fernández & Rico 2003, Gorostiaga et al., 2004, Bárbara et al. 2005, Sánchez et al 2005, Peña & Bárbara 2006, Martínez-Gil et al. 2007, Pena & Bárbara 2008, Peña & Bárbara 2008, de los Santos, Pérez-Lloréns & Vergara 2009, Mercado et al. 2009, Peña & Bárbara 2010, Cires Rodriguez & Cuesta Moliner 2010, Diaz Tapia et al. 2011), Turkey (Europe) (Taskin et al. 2008).

Atlantic Islands: Canary Islands (Lorenzo-Martín, Hernández-González & Gil-Rodriguez 1998, Mercado, Niell & Gil-Rodríguez 2001, Haroun et al. 2002, Gil-Rodríguez et al. 2003, John et al. 2004, Díaz-Villa et al 2005, Anon 2011, Garcia-Jiménez & Robaina 2012), Cape Verde Islands (John et al. 2004, Prud'homme van Reine, Haroun & Kostermans 2005), Madeira (Neto, Cravo & Haroun 2001, Haroun et al. 2002, John et al. 2004), Salvage Islands (John et al. 2004).

North America: California (Stewart 1991, Miller 2012), Florida (Littler, Littler & Hanisak 2008).

Caribbean Islands: Caribbean (Littler & Littler 2000), Cuba (Suárez 2005), Hispaniola (Betancourt & Herrera-Moreno, 2001), Trinidad & Tobago (Duncan & Lee Lum 2006).

Western Atlantic: Trop. & Subtrop. W. Atlantic (Wynne 2011).

South America: Brazil (Creed et al. 2010), Colombia (Díaz-Pulido & Díaz-Ruíz 2003), Galápagos Islands (Ruiz & Ziemmeck 2011), Uruguay (Coll & Oliveira 1999), Venezuela (Ganesan 1990).

Africa: Cameroon (John, Lawson & Ameka, 2003, John et al. 2004), Côte d'Ivoire (John, Lawson & Ameka, 2003, John et al. 2004), Eritrea (Ateweberhan & Prud'homme van Reine 2005), Gabon (John, Lawson & Ameka, 2003, John et al. 2004), Gambia (John, Lawson & Ameka, 2003, John et al. 2004), Ghana (John, Lawson & Ameka, 2003, John et al. 2004), Kenya (Bolton, Oyieke & Gwanda 2007), Liberia (John, Lawson & Ameka, 2003, John et al. 2004), Mauritania (John et al. 2004), Senegal (John et al. 2004, John et al. 2004), Sierra Leone (John, Lawson & Ameka, 2003), Tanzania (Oliveira, Österlund & Mtolera 2005), Western Sahara (John et al. 2004).

South-west Asia: Israel (Hoffman 2004, Einav 2007), Turkey (Asia) (Taskin et al. 2008).

Asia: China (Xia & Wang 1999, Xia 2004, Zeng 2009, Wang 2012), Japan (Yoshida, Nakajima & Nakata 1990, Yoshida 1998, Shimada & Masuda 2002, Titlyanov et al 2006), Korea (Lee & Kang 2001, Lee 2008), Taiwan (Huang 2000, Perrone et al 2006, Anon. 2012).

South-east Asia: Indonesia (Atmadja & Prud'homme van Reine 2012), Singapore (Pham et al. 2011), Vietnam (Pham-Hoàng 1969).

Australia and New Zealand: Lord Howe Island (Millar & Freshwater 2005), New South Wales (Millar & Freshwater 2005), New Zealand (, , Nelson 2012), Norfolk Island (Millar 1999), Papua New Guinea (Littler & Littler 2003), Queensland (Phillips 2002, Bostock & Holland 2010).

Pacific Islands: Hawaiian Islands (Abbott 1999, McDermid et al. 2005, Huisman, Abbott & Smith 2007).

Taxonomic notes
John et al. (2004) cite Pterocladia pinnata (Huds.) Papenf. as a synonym of this species.

Key references
Boo, S.M. & Ko, Y.D. (2012). Marine plants from Korea. pp. [1] 5-233, many col. photographs. Seoul: Marine & Extreme Genome Research Centre Program.

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.

Funk, G. (1955). Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Meeresalgen von Neapel: Zugleich mikrophotographischer Atlas. Pubblicazioni della Stazione Zoologica di Napoli 25(Suppl.): i-x , 1- 178, 36 figs.

Huisman, J.M., Abbott, I.A., Smith, C.M. (2007). Hawaiian reef plants. pp. [1]-264, numerous colour photographs. Honolulu: A publication of the University of Hawai'i Sea Grant College Program.

Perrone, C., Felicini, G.P. & Bottalico, A. (2006). The prostrate system of the Gelidiales: diagnostic and taxonomic importance. Botanica Marina 49: 23-33.

Rodríguez-Prieto, C., Ballesteros, E., Boisset, F. & Afonso-Carrillo, J. (2013). Guía de las macroalgas y fanerógamas marinas del Mediterráneo occidental. pp. [1]-656. Barcelona: Ediciones Omega, S.A..

Santelices, B. (1999). Taxonomic status of the species originally ascribed to the genus Pterocladia (Gelidiales, Rhodophyta). In: Taxonomy of Economic Seaweeds with reference to some Pacific species Vol. VII. (Abbott, I.A. Eds) Vol.7, pp. 71-80. La Jolla, California: California Sea Grant College System.

Shimada, S. & Masuda, M. (2002). Japanese species of Pterocladiella Santelices et Hommersand (Rhodophyta, Gelidiales). In: Taxonomy of Economic Seaweeds with reference to some Pacific species. Vol. VIII. (Abbott, I.A. & Mcdermid, K.J. Eds) Vol.8, pp. 167-181. La Jolla: California Sea Grant College.

Xia, B.M. & Wang, Y.Q. (1999). Taxonomic studies on Pterocladiella (Gelidiaceae, Gelidiales, Rhodophyta) from China. In: Taxonomy of Economic Seaweeds with reference to some Pacific species Vol. VII. (Abbott, I.A. Eds) Vol.7, pp. 81-86. La Jolla, California: California Sea Grant College System.

Xia, B.M. (2004). Flora algarum marinarum sinicarum Tomus II Rhodophyta No. III Gelidiales Cryptonemiales Hildenbrandiales. pp. [i]-xxi, 1-203, pls I-XIII. Beijing: Science Press.

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

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=Pterocladiella&Species=capillacea

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

KU-MACC Cultures
Strain Number: KU-1512, Pterocladiella capillacea
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Created: 31 March 1996 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 07 May 2013 by M.D. Guiry

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

Bottalico, A., Delle Foglie, C.I.& Fanelli, M. (2008). Growth and reproductive phenology of Pterocladiella capillacea (Rhodophyta: Gelidiales) from the southern Adriatic Sea. Botanica Marina 51: 124-131.
Garcia-Jiménez, P. & Robaina, R.R. (2012). Effects of ethylene on tetrasporogenesis in Pterocladiella capillacea (Rhodophyta). Journal of Phycology 48(3): 710-715.
Scrosati, R. & Servière-Zaragoza, E. (2000). Ramet dynamics for the clonal seaweed Pterocladiella capillacea (Rhodophyta): a comparison with Chondrus crispus and with Mazzaella cornucopiae (Gigartinales). Journal of Phycology 36: 1061-1068.
Scrosati, R. (2002). Morphological plasticity and apparent loss of apical dominance following the natural loss of the main apex in Pterocladiella capillacea (Rhodophyta, Gelidiales) fronds. Phycologia 41: 96-98.
Servière-Zaragoza, E. & Scrosati, R. (2002). Reproductive phenology of Pterocladiella capillacea (Rhodophyta, Gelidiales) from southern Baja California, Mexico. Pacific Science 56: 285-290.

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