Phymatolithon lenormandii (Areschoug) W.H.Adey

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Rhodophyta
Subphylum Eurhodophytina
Class Florideophyceae
Subclass Corallinophycidae
Order Corallinales
Family Hapalidiaceae
Subfamily Melobesioideae
Genus Phymatolithon

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Zeeland delta, Netherlands. 26 Mar 2011. Mat Vestjens & Anne Frijsinger. © Mat Vestjens & Anne Frijsinger (annenmat@natuurlijkmooi.net).

Ireland. Bernard Picton. © Bernard Picton (Bernard.Picton@magni.org.uk).

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Spiddal, Co. Galway, Ireland; rocks at low water. 18 Apr 2002. Michael Guiry. © Michael Guiry (mike.guiry@nuigalway.ie).

Spanish Point, Co. Clare, Ireland; low intertidal rock under Fucus serratus. 04 Aug 2002. Michael Guiry. © Michael Guiry (mike.guiry@nuigalway.ie).

Phymatolithon lenormandii (Areschoug) W.H.Adey Ireland

Publication details
Phymatolithon lenormandii (Areschoug) W.H.Adey 1966: 325

Original publication: Adey, W.H. (1966). The genera Lithothamnium, Leptophytum (nov. gen.) and Phymatolithon in the Gulf of Maine. Hydrobiologia 28: 321-370, 112 figs, tables I-VI.

Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Phymatolithon is Phymatolithon polymorphum Foslie.

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

Basionym
Melobesia lenormandii Areschoug

Type information
Type locality: Arromanches-les-Bains, Calvados, France (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996: 265). Lectotype: September 1847; LD. Herb. Agardh 50673, selected by Woelkerling (1988: 219). Isolectotype CN. (Chamberlain & Irvine 1994: 224).

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Melobesia lenormandii Areschoug 1852
Lithophyllum lenormandii (Areschoug) Rosanoff 1866
Lithothamnion lenormandii (Areschoug) Foslie 1895
Squamolithon lenormandii (Areschoug) Heydrich 1911

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Lithophyllum laeve Strömfelt 1886
Lithothamnion squamulosum Foslie 1895
Lithothamnion lenormandii f. sublaevis Foslie 1895
Lithothamnion stroemfeltii f. tenuissimum Foslie 1895
Lithothamnion lenormandii f. squamulosum (Foslie) Foslie 1905
Lithothamnion annulatum Foslie 1906
Leptophytum laeve Adey 1966
Mesophyllum annulatum (Foslie) W.H.Adey 1970

General environment
This is a Marine species.

Description
Thin, rough, lilac calcareous crust, with smooth glossy margins, sometimes scaly, firmly attached to substrate, to 600 µm thick.

Habitat
Lower intertidal rock pools and shallow subtidal, on rock, widely distributed, common.

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Lithothamnion lenormandii (Areschoug) Foslie)
Ireland: Antrim (Johnson & Hensman 1896, Hanna 1902, Adams 1907), Down (Morton 1974), Waterford (Anonymous 1898), Wexford (Norton 1970).

Europe: Adriatic (Ercegovic 1980), Britain (Newton 1931), France (Feldmann 1939, Feldmann 1954), Greece (Gerloff & Geissler 1974, Haritonidis & Tsekos 1976, Tsekos & Haritonidis 1977, Diapoulis, Haritonidis & Koussouris 1986), Ireland (Adams 1907, Cotton 1912), Italy (Giaccone 1969, Cinelli et al. 1976), Portugal (Ardré 1970), Spain (Miranda 1931), Sweden (Kylin 1907, Kylin 1944), Turkey (Europe) (Güven & Öztig 1971).

Atlantic Islands: Madeira (Levring 1974).

North America: Mexico (Dawson 1960).

Central America: El Salvador (Fernández-García et al. 2011).

South America: Brazil (Taylor 1930 ).

Africa: Ethiopia (Papenfuss 1968 ), Mauritius (Børgesen 1943).

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

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

(as Lithothamnion lenormandii f. sublaevis Foslie)
Ireland: Mayo (Cotton 1912).

Europe: Britain (Newton 1931), Ireland (Cotton 1912).

(as Lithothamnion lenormandii f. squamulosum (Foslie) Foslie)
Europe: Ireland (Newton 1931).

(as Phymatolithon lenormandii (Areschoug) W.H.Adey)
Ireland: Antrim (Morton & Chamberlain 1985, Morton 1994), Clare (De Valéra et al. 1979), Cork (Guiry 1978), Derry (Morton 1994), Donegal (Morton 2003), Down (Morton & Chamberlain 1985, Morton 1994), Dublin (Fletcher & Maggs 1985), Galway (Guiry 1978).

Europe: Adriatic (Giaccone 1978, Munda 1979, Babbini & Bressan 1997), Balearic Islands (Babbini & Bressan 1997), Baltic Sea (Nielsen et al. 1995), Britain (Irvine & Chamberlain 1994, Hardy & Guiry 2003), Corsica (Boudouresque & Perret 1977, Babbini & Bressan 1997), Faroe Islands (Irvine 1982, Nielsen & Gunnarsson 2001), France (Coppejans 1995, Babbini & Bressan 1997, Verlaque 2001, Dizerbo & Herpe 2007, Loiseaux-de Goër & Noailles 2008, Anon. 2012), Greece (Athanasiadis 1987, Babbini & Bressan 1997, Tsirika & Haritonidis 2005), Helgoland (Bartsch & Kuhlenkamp 2000), Ireland (Guiry 1978, De Valéra et al. 1979, Morton 1994, Irvine & Chamberlain 1994, Guiry 2012), Isla de Alborán (Conde & Flores Moya 2000), Italy (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, Serio et al 2006), Netherlands (Stegenga & Mol 1983), Norway (Rueness 1997), Portugal (Araujo et al. 2009), Sardinia (Babbini & Bressan 1997, Furnari et al. 2003), Scandinavia (Athanasiadis 1996), Sicily (Alongi et al. 2012), Spain (Ballesteros 1981, Ballesteros & Romero 1982, Boisset & Barceló 1984, Pérez-Ruzafa & Honrubia 1984, Gallardo et al. 1985, Ramos Esplá 1985, Soto & Conde 1989, Pérez-Ruzafa 1990, Granja, Cremades & Barbara 1992, Bárbara, Cremades & Pérez-Cirera 1995, Conde et al. 1996, Bárbara & Cremades 1996, Babbini & Bressan 1997, Gorostiaga et al., 2004, Bárbara et al. 2005, Bárbara et al 2008, Cires Rodriguez & Cuesta Moliner 2010), Turkey (Europe) (Taskin et al. 2008, Taskin et al. 2008 ).

Atlantic Islands: Azores (Tittley & Neto 1994, Neto 1994), Canary Islands (Gil-Rodríguez & Afonso-Carrillo 1980, Lawson et al. 1995, Guadalupe et al. 1995, Haroun et al. 2002, Gil-Rodríguez et al. 2003, John et al. 2004, Anon 2011), Cape Verde Islands (John et al. 2004, Prud'homme van Reine, Haroun & Kostermans 2005), Iceland (Caram & Jónsson 1972), Madeira (Neto, Cravo & Haroun 2001, John et al. 2004).

North America: New Hampshire (Mathieson & Hehre 1986, Mathieson & Hehre 1986).

South America: Chile (Ramírez & Santelices 1991).

Africa: Algeria (Babbini & Bressan 1997), Egypt (Aleem 1993), Libya (Babbini & Bressan 1997), Mauritius (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Morocco (Babbini & Bressan 1997), Tunisia (Ben Maiz, Boudouresque & Quahchi 1987, Babbini & Bressan 1997).

South-west Asia: Levant states (Babbini & Bressan 1997), Turkey (Asia) (Taskin et al. 2008 ).

Asia: China (Tseng 1984, Zeng 2009), Japan (Yoshida 1998).

Antarctic and the subantarctic islands: Antarctica/Subantarctic Islands (Wiencke & Clayton 2002), Kerguelen (Wiencke & Clayton 2002), Macquarie Island (Wiencke & Clayton 2002).

(as Leptophytum laeve Adey)
Europe: Baltic Sea (Nielsen et al. 1995), Britain (Irvine & Chamberlain 1994, Hardy & Guiry 2003), Faroe Islands (Irvine 1982), Ireland (Guiry 2012), Norway (Rueness 1997), Spitsbergen (Athanasiadis 2006).

Atlantic Islands: E. Greenland (Pedersen 1976), Iceland (Caram & Jónsson 1972).

North America: New Hampshire (Mathieson & Hehre 1986).

Asia: Commander Islands (Selivanova & Zhigadlova 1997), Japan (Yoshida, Nakajima & Nakata 1990, Yoshida 1998), Russia (Perestenko 1994).

Key references
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.

Klochkova, N.G., Korolyova, T.N. & Kusidi, A.E. (2009). [Atlas of marine algae of Kamchatka and surrounding areas. Vol. 2. Red seaweeds]. pp. 1-301. Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky: KamchatNIRO Press.

Loiseaux-de Goër, S. & Noailles, M.-C. (2008). Algues de Roscoff. pp. [1]-215, col. figs. Roscoff: Editions de la Station Biologique de Roscoff.

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..

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

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=Phymatolithon&Species=lenormandii

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 31 March 1996 by M.D. Guiry

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

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 4371 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.)

Millson, C. & Moss, B.L. (1985). Ultrastructure of the vegetative thallus of Phymatolithon lenormandii (Aresch. in J. Ag.) Adey. Botanica Marina 28: 123-132.
Moss, B.L. & Gilchrist, C.J. (1981). Cell wall structure and pit connections in Phymatolithon lenormandii. British Phycological Journal 16: 138.

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