Haliptilon virgatum (Zanardini) Garbary & H.W.Johansen

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Rhodophyta
Subphylum Eurhodophytina
Class Florideophyceae
Subclass Corallinophycidae
Order Corallinales
Family Corallinaceae
Subfamily Corallinoideae
Tribe Janieae
Genus Haliptilon

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Publication details
Haliptilon virgatum (Zanardini) Garbary & H.W.Johansen 1982: 212

Original publication: Garbary, D.J. & Johansen, H.W. (1982). Scanning electron microscopy of Corallina and Haliptilon (Corallinaceae, Rhodophyta): surface features and their taxonomic implications. Journal of Phycology 18: 211-219, 13 figs.

Type species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Haliptilon is Haliptilon cuvieri (J.V.Lamouroux) H.W.Johansen & P.C.Silva.

Status of name
This name is currently regarded as a taxonomic synonym of Jania virgata (Zanardini) Montagne

Basionym
Corallina virgata Zanardini

Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), twiggy, long and slender or streaked, rod-like (Stearn 1973).

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Corallina granifera J.Ellis & Solander 1786
Corallina lobata J.V.Lamouroux 1816

General environment
This is a Marine species.

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Corallina granifera J.Ellis & Solander)
Europe: Balearic Islands (, Rodríguez y Femenías 1889, Mazza 1918, Garcías 1919, Ribera Siguán 1983, Ribera Siguán & Gómez Garreta 1984, Ribera, Coloreu, Rodriguez Prieto & Ballesteros 1997), Bulgaria (Dimitrova-Konaklieva 1981, Kamenarska et al.2006), Corsica (Boudouresque & Perret 1977, Coppejans 1979, Demoulin, Janssen & Licot 1980, Verlaque 1984, Rodríguez Prieto, Boudouresque & Marcot-Coqueugniot 1993), France (Feldmann 1939), Greece (Diannelidis 1953, Gerloff & Geissler 1974, Diapoulis, Haritonidis & Koussouris 1986, Athanasiadis 1987), Italy (Giaccone 1969, Cinelli 1971, Feoli & Bressan 1972, Edwards et al. 1975, Cinelli et al. 1976), Netherlands (Stegenga & Mol 1983), Portugal (Ardré 1970), Spain (Seoane-Camba 1965, Ballesteros 1981, Barcelo & Seoane 1982, Ballesteros & Romero 1982, Pérez-Ruzafa & Honrubia 1984, Gallardo et al. 1985, Rodriguez Prieto & Polo Alberti 1988, Soto & Conde 1989, Conde, Vera & Flores-Moya 1990, Pérez-Ruzafa et al. 1991, Conde et al. 1996, Rodríguez-Prieto & Polo, L. 1996, Rodriguez-Prieto & Polo Albertí 1998), Turkey (Europe) (Güven & Öztig 1971).

Atlantic Islands: Canary Islands (Gil-Rodríguez & Afonso-Carrillo 1980, Gil-Rodriguez et al. 1985, Price, John & Lawson 1986), Cape Verde Islands (Price, John & Lawson 1986), Salvage Islands (Audiffred & Weisscher 1984, Price, John & Lawson 1986).

Africa: Egypt (Aleem 1993), Morocco (Dangeard 1949), Tunisia (Meñez & Mathieson 1981, Ben Maiz, Boudouresque & Quahchi 1987).

Pacific Islands: Samoan Archipelago (Skelton & South 1999).

Antarctic and the subantarctic islands: Antipodes Islands (Papenfuss 1964).

(as Corallina lobata J.V.Lamouroux)
Atlantic Islands: Canary Islands (Price, John & Lawson 1986).

(as Haliptilon virgatum (Zanardini) Garbary & H.W.Johansen)
Ireland: Down (Morton 1994).

Europe: Adriatic (Babbini & Bressan 1997), Balearic Islands (Babbini & Bressan 1997, Bressan & Babbini 2003), Bulgaria (Kamenarska et al. 2009, Berov et al. 2012), Corsica (Babbini & Bressan 1997, Bressan & Babbini 2003, Sales & Ballesteros 2011), Croatia (Bressan & Babbini 2003), France (Babbini & Bressan 1997, Bressan & Babbini 2003, Dizerbo & Herpe 2007), Greece (Bressan & Babbini 2003, Tsirika & Haritonidis 2005), Ireland (Morton 1994), 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, Bressan & Babbini 2003, Bressan & Babbini 2003, Bressan & Babbini 2003, Bressan & Babbini 2003, Serio et al 2006), Malta (Cormaci et al. 1997, Bressan & Babbini 2003), Sardinia (Babbini & Bressan 1997, Furnari et al. 2003, Bressan & Babbini 2003), Spain (Babbini & Bressan 1997, Bressan & Babbini 2003, Gorostiaga et al., 2004, Bárbara et al. 2005, Pérez-Ruzafa et al. 2008), Turkey (Europe) (Babbini & Bressan 1997, Bressan & Babbini 2003, Taskin et al. 2008 ).

Atlantic Islands: Azores (Tittley & Neto 1994, Neto 1994), Canary Islands (Viera-Rodriguez et al. 1987, Guadalupe et al. 1995, Haroun et al. 2002, Aldanondo-Aristizábal, Domínguez-Alvarez & Gil-Rodríguez 2003, 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), Madeira (Neto, Cravo & Haroun 2001, John et al. 2004), Salvage Islands (Parente et al. 2000, John et al. 2004).

Africa: Algeria (Babbini & Bressan 1997, Bressan & Babbini 2003), Egypt (Babbini & Bressan 1997, Bressan & Babbini 2003), Libya (Babbini & Bressan 1997, Bressan & Babbini 2003), Morocco (Babbini & Bressan 1997, Bressan & Babbini 2003), Tunisia (Babbini & Bressan 1997, Bressan & Babbini 2003).

South-west Asia: Israel (Bressan & Babbini 2003, Hoffman 2004), Levant states (Babbini & Bressan 1997), Syria (Bressan & Babbini 2003), Turkey (Asia) (Taskin et al. 2008 , Percot, Yalcin, Aysel, Erdugan, Durral & Guven 2009).

Taxonomic notes
John et al. (2004) cite Corallina lobata J.V. Lamour. and Jania granifera Decne. as synonyms of this species.

Source of synonymy
Kim, J.H., Guiry, M.D., Oak, J.H., Choi, D.-S., Kang, S.-H., Chung, H. & Choi, H.-G. (2007). Phylogenetic relationships within the tribe Janieae (Corallinales, Rhodophyta) based on molecular and morphological data: a reappraisal of Jania. Journal of Phycology 43: 1310-1319.

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.

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..

Serio, D., Alongi, G., Catra, M., Cormaci, M. & Furnari, G. (2006). Changes in the benthic algal flora of Linosa Island (Straits of Sicily, Mediterranean Sea). Botanica Marina 49: 135-144.

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

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=Haliptilon&Species=virgatum

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 09 September 1996 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 30 April 2013 by M.D. Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 1664 times since it was created.

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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2013. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org; searched on 20 June 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:118005