Corallina officinalis Linnaeus

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Subkingdom Biliphyta
Phylum Rhodophycophyta
Subphylum Eurhodophytina
Class Florideophyceae
Subclass Corallinophycidae
Order Corallinales
Family Corallinaceae
Subfamily Corallinoideae
Genus Corallina

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Black Hd., Co. Clare, Ireland; lower-shore rock pools. 16 Mar 2006. Michael Guiry. © Michael Guiry.

Spiddal, Co. Galway, Ireland; pools in lower intertida. 29 Sep 2007. Michael Guiry. © Michael Guiry.

Spiddal, Co. Galway, Ireland; plants at MLWN on rock with Ulva compressa. 30 Sep 2007. Michael Guiry. © Michael Guiry.

Spiddal, Co. Galway, Ireland; on Mytilus galloprovincialis cluster. 30 Sep 2007. Michael Guiry. © Michael Guiry.

Spiddal, Co. Galway, Ireland; on Mytilus galloprovincialis cluster. 30 Sep 2007. Michael Guiry. © Michael Guiry.

Spiddal, Co. Galway, Ireland; lower-shore pools. 30 Sep 2007. Michael Guiry. © Michael Guiry.

Spiddal, Co. Galway, Ireland; lower-shore pools. 30 Sep 2007. Michael Guiry. © Michael Guiry.

Spanish Point, Co. Clare, Ireland; plants in clumps around a rock-pool; polarising filter. 04 Aug 2004. Michael Guiry. © Michael Guiry.

Spanish Point, Co. Clare, Ireland; plants in clumps around a rock-pool. 04 Aug 2004. Michael Guiry. © Michael Guiry.

Spanish Point, Co. Clare, Ireland; lower intertidal pools. 04 Aug 2004. Michael Guiry. © Michael Guiry.

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Corallina officinalis Linnaeus Spiddal, Co. Galway, Ireland; plants in lower-shore pools with Cryptopleura ramosa at base

Publication details
Corallina officinalis Linnaeus 1758: 805

Original publication: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. Vol. 1 pp. [i-iv], [1]-823. Stockholmiae [Stockholm]: impensis direct. Laurentii Salvii.

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Type species
This is the type species (lectotype) of the genus Corallina.

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

Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), used in medicine [in the past] (Stearn 1973).

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Corallina calvadosii J.V.Lamouroux 1816
Corallina nana Zanardini 1844
Corallina officinalis f. vulgaris Kützing 1858
Corallina officinalis var. vulgaris Kützing 1858
Corallina compacta P.L.Crouan & H.M.Crouan 1867
Corallina officinalis f. profunda Farlow 1881
Corallina officinalis var. profunda Farlow 1881
Corallina officinalis var. nana (Zanardini) Ardissone 1883
Corallina officinalis var. compacta (P.L.Crouan & H.M.Crouan) Batters 1902
Corallina officinalis f. nana (Zanardini) Van Heurck 1908
Corallina officinalis var. flabellifera Schiffner 1931
Corallina officinalis f. compacta (P.L.Crouan & H.M.Crouan) Hamel & Lemoine 1953

General environment
This is a Marine species.

Description
Whitish-pink to lilac, calcified, articulated fronds, 60-70 (-120) mm high, axis cylindrical to compressed, repeatedly pinnate from and expanded discoid base, branchng often irregular. Growth form very variable, often stunted. In unfavourable habitats erect system vestigial, but extensive base may be present.

Habitat
On rock, midtidal pools and drainage runnels, lower intertidal and shallow subtidal, widespread and abundant, especially on exposed coasts.

Similar species
Haliptilon squamatum (Linnaeus) Johansen, L. Irvine et Webster, a species rarely found in lower-shore rock pools, has shield-shaped articulations but is difficult to distinguish from Corallina officinalis. Corallina elongata is smaller and more regularly branched.

Type information
Type locality: "Hab. O. Eur." [European Seas] Lectotype: LINN 1293.9 (Womersley & Johansen 1996: 291). Notes: Lectotype selected by Schmitz (1889: 455). Linnaeus writes: "C. trichotoma, articulis cylindricis: teminale ovata. Ellis 48 n. 2. t. 24. f. A. Hab. O. Eur."

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Corallina officinalis Linnaeus)
Ireland: Antrim (Adams 1907, Guiry 1978, McMillan & Morton 1979, Morton 1994), Clare (Guiry 1978, De Valéra et al. 1979, Maggs 1983), Cork (Renouf 1931, Cullinane 1971, Guiry 1978, Irvine & Chamberlain 1994), Derry (Morton 1994), Donegal (Guiry 1978, Morton 2003), Down (Morton 1974, Guiry 1978, Morton 1994), Dublin (Guiry 1978), Galway (Foslie 1899, Guiry 1978, Maggs 1983), Kerry (Guiry 1978), Limerick (Cullinane 1969, Guiry 1978), Louth (Synnott 1969, Guiry 1978), Mayo (Cotton 1912, Guiry 1978), Sligo (Cullinane 1970), Waterford (Guiry 1978), Wexford (Cotton 1913, Parkes & Scannell 1969, Norton 1970, Guiry 1978), Wicklow (Guiry 1978).

Europe: Adriatic (Giaccone 1978, Munda 1979, Ercegović 1980, Babbini & Bressan 1997, Curiel et al.1998), Balearic Islands (Colmeiro, M. 1868, Barceló 1879-1881, Piccone 1889, Rodríguez y Femenías 1889, Garcías 1919, Bellón 1921, Navarro & Bellón 1945, Seoane-Camba 1969, Ribera Siguán 1983, Ribera Siguán & Gómez Garreta 1984, Babbini & Bressan 1997, Bressan & Babbini 2003), Baltic Sea (Nielsen et al. 1995), Britain (Newton 1931, Irvine & Chamberlain 1994, Hardy & Guiry 2003), Bulgaria (Dimitrova-Konaklieva 1981), Corsica (Boudouresque & Perret 1977, Babbini & Bressan 1997), Croatia (Bressan & Babbini 2003), Faroes (Irvine 1982, Nielsen & Gunnarsson 2001), France (Feldmann 1939, Feldmann 1954, Coppejans 1995, Babbini & Bressan 1997, Bressan & Babbini 2003), Greece (Diannelidis 1953, Gerloff & Geissler 1974, Haritonidis & Tsekos 1976, Tsekos & Haritonidis 1977, Athanasiadis 1987, Babbini & Bressan 1997, Bressan & Babbini 2003), Helgoland (Bartsch & Kuhlenkamp 2000), Iceland (Caram & Jónsson 1972), Ireland (Adams 1907, Cotton 1912, Cotton 1913, Cullinane 1969, Cullinane 1971, Guiry 1978, De Valéra et al. 1979, Maggs 1983, Morton 1994, Irvine & Chamberlain 1994), Italy (Giaccone 1969, Feoli & Bressan 1972, Edwards et al. 1975, Cinelli et al. 1976, Cecere et al. 1996, Babbini & Bressan 1997, Babbini & Bressan 1997, Babbini & Bressan 1997, Furnari, Cormaci & Serio 1999, Rindi, Sartoni & Cinelli 2002, Furnari et al. 2003, Furnari et al. 2003, Furnari et al. 2003, Furnari et al. 2003, Bressan & Babbini 2003, Bressan & Babbini 2003, Bressan & Babbini 2003, Bressan & Babbini 2003), Malta (Babbini & Bressan 1997, Bressan & Babbini 2003), Netherlands (Stegenga & Mol 1983), Norway (Rueness 1997), Portugal (Ardré 1970, Araujo et al. 2009, Araújo, Bárbara & Sousa-Pinto in press), Romania (Caraus 2002), Sardinia (Babbini & Bressan 1997, Furnari et al. 2003), Scandinavia (Athanasiadis 1996), Spain (Lázaro Ibiza 1889, Sauvageau 1897, Bellón 1921, Hamel 1928, Miranda 1931, Bellón 1940, Méndez 1957, Seoane-Camba 1957, Ardré 1957, Fischer-Piette, C. & Seoane Camba, J. (1962), Seoane-Camba 1965, Ballesteros 1981, Ballesteros & Romero 1982, Pérez-Cirera & Maldonado 1982, Gallardo & Pérez-Cirera 1982, Gómez-Menor Robles & Fuertes Lasala 1982, Fernández & Niell 1982, Fernández, Niell & Anadón 1983, Gallardo et al. 1985, Anadón & Fernández 1986, Soto & Conde 1989, Flores-Moya, Vera-Gonzalez & Conde 1989, Conde, Vera & Flores-Moya 1990, Granja, Cremades & Barbara 1992, Conde Poyales 1992, Conde et al. 1996, Bárbara & Cremades 1996, Babbini & Bressan 1997, Veiga, Cremades & Bárbara 1998, Bressan & Babbini 2003, Beltrán & Bárbara 2003, Gorostiaga et al., 2004, Bárbara et al. 2005, de los Santos, Pérez-Lloréns & Vergara 2009, Mercado et al. 2009), Sweden (Kylin 1907, Kylin 1944), Turkey (Europe) (Güven & Öztig 1971, Cirik, Zeybeck, Aysel & Cirik 1990, Babbini & Bressan 1997, Bressan & Babbini 2003, Taskin et al. 2008 ).

Atlantic Islands: Azores (Neto 1994), Bermuda (Taylor 1960), Canary Islands (Gil-Rodríguez & Afonso-Carrillo 1980, Price, John & Lawson 1986, Viera-Rodriguez et al. 1987, Haroun et al. 2002, Gil-Rodríguez et al. 2003, John et al. 2004), Cape Verde Islands (Price, John & Lawson 1986, John et al. 2004, Prud'homme van Reine, Haroun & Kostermans 2005), Gough Island (Chamberlain 1965), Madeira (Levring 1974, Neto, Cravo & Haroun 2001, John et al. 2004), Salvage Islands (Price, John & Lawson 1986, John et al. 2004).

North America: Maine (Mathieson et al. 2001), New Brunswick (Bates et al. 2005), New Hampshire (Mathieson & Hehre 1986, Mathieson & Dawes 2002), North Carolina (Taylor 1960, Schneider & Searles 1991), Nova Scotia (Schmidt & Scheibling 2006), South Carolina (Schneider & Searles 1991), Texas (Wynne 2009), Virginia (Humm 1979).

Caribbean Islands: Cuba (Suárez 2005), Lesser Antilles (Taylor 1960), Trinidad (Richardson 1975).

South America: Brazil (Taylor 1930, Joly 1957, Taylor 1960, Joly 1965), Colombia (Díaz-Pulido & Díaz-Ruíz 2003), Galápagos Islands (Taylor 1945), Uruguay (Taylor 1960, Coll & Oliveira 1999), Venezuela (Ganesan 1990).

Africa: Algeria (Babbini & Bressan 1997, Bressan & Babbini 2003), Angola (Price, John & Lawson 1986, John et al. 2004), Egypt (Aleem 1993), Gambia (John et al. 2004), Ghana (Price, John & Lawson 1986), Libya (Babbini & Bressan 1997, Bressan & Babbini 2003), Mauritania (Price, John & Lawson 1986, John et al. 2004), Morocco (Dangeard 1949, Babbini & Bressan 1997, Bressan & Babbini 2003, Bressan & Babbini 2003), Senegal (Price, John & Lawson 1986, John et al. 2004), South Africa (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Stegenga, Bolton & Anderson 1997, De Clerck, Tronchin & Schils 2005), Tunisia (Meñez & Mathieson 1981, Ben Maiz, Boudouresque & Quahchi 1987, Bressan & Babbini 2003), Western Sahara (Price, John & Lawson 1986, John et al. 2004).

South-west Asia: India (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Sahoo et al. 2001), Israel (Bressan & Babbini 2003), Levant states (Babbini & Bressan 1997), Pakistan (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Turkey (Asia) (Taskin et al. 2008 ).

Asia: China (Tseng 1984), Japan (Yoshida, Nakajima & Nakata 1990, Yoshida 1998), Korea (Lee & Kang 2001), Russia (Perestenko 1994).

Australia and New Zealand: Lord Howe Island (Millar & Kraft 1993), New South Wales (Millar & Kraft 1993), New Zealand (Chapman & Parkinson 1974, Adams 1994), Queensland (Lewis 1984, Lewis 1984, Cribb 1996, Phillips 1997, Phillips 2002), South Australia (Womersley & Johansen 1996), Tasmania (Womersley & Johansen 1996), Victoria (Womersley & Johansen 1996), Western Australia (Womersley & Johansen 1996).

Antarctic and the subantarctic islands: Antarctica (Papenfuss 1964).

(as Corallina officinalis var. vulgaris Kützing)
Europe: Sweden (Kylin 1944).

(as Corallina officinalis var. profunda Farlow)
Europe: Sweden (Kylin 1944).

(as Corallina officinalis var. compacta (P.L.Crouan & H.M.Crouan) Batters)
Europe: Britain (Newton 1931), Sweden (Kylin 1944).

(as Corallina officinalis var. flabellifera Schiffner)
Europe: Adriatic (Giaccone 1978).

Nomenclatural notes
Linnaeus cites Ellis 48 n. 2 t. 24 f. A "C. trichotoma articulis cylindricis: teminale ovato."

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

Bressan, G. & Babbini, L. (2003). Biodiversità marina delle coste Italiane: Corallinales del Mar Mediterraneo: guida all deteminazione. Biologia Marina Mediterranea 10(Suppl. 2): 1-237.

Dawes, C.J. & Mathieson, A.C. (2008). The seaweeds of Florida. pp. [i]- viii, [1]-591, [592], pls I-LI. Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida.

Silva, P.C., Basson, P.W. & Moe, R.L. (1996). Catalogue of the benthic marine algae of the Indian Ocean. University of California Publications in Botany 79: 1-1259.

Walker, R.H., Brodie, J., Russell, S., Irvine, L.M. & Orfanidis, S. (2009). Biodiversity of coralline algae in the Northeastern Atlantic including Corallina caespitosa Sp. Nov. (Corallinoideae, Rhodophyta). Journal of Phycology 45: 287-297.

Womersley, H.B.S. & Johansen, H.W. (1996). Subfamily Corallinoideae (Areschoug) Foslie 1908: 19. In: The marine benthic flora of southern Australia - Part IIIB - Gracilariales, Rhodymeniales, Corallinales and Bonnemaisoniales. (Womersley, H.B.S. Eds), pp. 288-317. Adelaide & Canberra: Australian Biological Resources Study & the State Herbarium of South Australia.

Wynne, M.J. (2005). A check-list of benthic marine algae of the tropical and subtropical western Atlantic: second revision. Beihefte zur Nova Hedwigia 129: 1-152.

SAG Cultures
No records have been found on the SAG site.

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences
As of 2 June 2009, nucleotide sequence data are available at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Genbank for 33 samples identified as Corallina officinalis.

Created: 31 March 1996 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 14 February 2010 by M.D. Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 14468 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.)

Andrake, W. & Johansen, H.W. (1980). Alizarin red dye as a marker for measuring growth in Corallina officinalis L. (Corallinaceae, Rhodophyta). Journal of Phycology 16: .
Beltrán, M. & Bárbara, I. (2003). Estudio morfológico comparado entre Corallina officinalis y C. elongata (Corallinales, Rhodophyta) en el noroeste de la Península Ibérica. Nova Acta Científica Compostelana (Bioloxía) 13: 5-16.
Berner, L. (1979). Note sur Corallina officinalis L. 1761. Nova Hedwigia 31: 977-990.
Borowitzka, M.A. & Vesk, M. (1978). Ultrastructure of the Corallinaceae. I. The vegetative cells of Corallina officinalis and C. cuvierii. Marine Biology, Berlin 46: 295-304.
Bressan, G. & Benes, M. (1977). Individuazione di caretteri quantitativi diacritici in Corallina mediterranea Areschoug e C. officinalis Linneo (Corallinaceae - Rhodophyceae). Boll. Soc. Adriat. Sci. nat. 61: 1-10.
Cases, M.R., Stortz, C.A. & Cerezo, A.S. (1994). Structure of the "coalinans"-sulfated xylogalactans from Corallina officinalis. Int. J. Biol. Macromol. 16: 93-97.
Dommasnes, A. (1969). On the fauna of Corallina officinalis L. in western Norway. Sarsia 38: 71-86.
Hilditch, C.M., Balding, P., Jenkins, R., Smith, A.J. & Rogers, L.J. (1991). R-phycoerythrin from the macroalga Corallina officinalis (Rhodophyceae) and application of a derived phycofluor probe for detecting sugar-binding sites on cell membranes. Journal of Applied Phycology 3: 345-354.
Iglesias, M.Y. & Mendoza, M.L. (1981). Estudios sobre los componentes minerales de aplicación agrícola de Corallina officinalis L. y Bossiella orbigniana (Decaisne) Silva con especial referencia a la variación estacional del contenido de carbonato de calcio. Contribuciónes Técnicas (CIBIMA) 34: 12.
Littler, M.M. & Kauker, B.J. (1984). Heterotrichy and survival strategies in the red alga Corallina officinalis. Botanica Marina 27: 37-44.
Matty, P.J. & Johansen, H.W. (1981). A histochemical study of Corallina officinalis (Rhodophyta, Corallinaceae). Phycologia 20: 46-55.
Peel, M.C. (1976). Nuclear ultrastructure during sporogenesis in Corallina officinalis L. and Jania rubens (L.) Lamour. British Phycological Journal 11: 198.
Peel, M.C. (1985). Chloroplast structure in Corallina officinalis. British Phycological Journal 20: 190.
Peel, M.C., Lucas, I.A.N., Duckett, J.G. & Greenwood, A.D. (1973). Studies of sporogenesis in the Rhodophyta I. An association of the nuclei with endoplasmic reticulum in post-meiotic tetraspore mother cells of Corallina officinalis L.. Z Zellforsch 147: 59-74.
Pentecost, A. (1978). Calcification and photosynthesis in Corallina officinalis L. using the ¹⁴CO₂ method. British Phycological Journal 13: 383-390, 6 figs, 2 tables.
Pueschel, C.M., Miller, T.J. & McCausland, B.B. (1996). Development of epithallial cells in Corallina officinalis and Lithophyllum impressum (Corallinales, Rhodophyta). Phycologia 35: 161-169.
Sheffield, D.J., Harry, T., Smith, A.J. & Rogers, L.J. (1993). Purification and characterization of the Vanadium bromoperoxidase from the macroalga Corallina officinalis. Phytochemistry 32(1): 21-26.
Sheffield, D.J., Smith, A.J., Harry, T.R. & Rogers, L.J. (1993). Thermostability of the vanadium bromoperoxidase from Corallina officinalis. Biochemical Society Transactions 21: 445.
Turvey, J.R. & Simpson, P.R. (1966). Polysaccharides from Corallina officinalis. Proceedings of the International Seaweed Symposium 5: 323-327.