Acetabularia parvula Solms-Laubach
Publication details
Acetabularia parvula Solms-Laubach 1895: 29, pl. 2: figs 3, 5
Original publication: Solms-Laubach, H. (1895). Monograph of the Acetabularieae. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, Second Series, Botany 5: 1-39, pls 1-4.
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Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Acetabularia is Acetabularia acetabulum (Linnaeus) P.C.Silva.
Status of name
This name is currently regarded as a taxonomic synonym of Parvocaulis parvulus (Solms-Laubach) S.Berger, U.Fettweiss, S.Gleissberg, L.B.Liddle, U.Richter, H.Sawitzky & G.C.Zuccarello
Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), very small (Stearn 1973).
Synonym(s)
No synonyms are currently included in AlgaeBase.
General environment
This is a marine species.
Distribution by country
Type information
Type locality: Makasar, Sulawesi (Celebes), Indonesia (Lipkin & Silva 2002: 70). Type: Weber-van Bosse; Herb. Weber-van Bosse 927 (Lipkin & Silva 2002: 70). Notes: (see Valet, 1969: 622). Syntype localities; "Tropical India"; Celebes, Indonesia (Silva et al. 1996: 893).
Detailed distribution with sources
(as Acetabularia parvula Solms-Laubach)
Europe: Turkey (Europe) (Güner, Aysel, Sukatar & Öztürk 1985).
Atlantic Islands: Canary Islands (Haroun et al. 2002, Aldanondo-Aristizábal, Domínguez-Alvarez & Gil-Rodríguez 2003, Gil-Rodríguez et al. 2003, John et al. 2004, Anon 2011), Madeira (Neto, Cravo & Haroun 2001, John et al. 2004).
Central America: Islas Revillagigedo (Setchell & Gardner 1930), México (Pacific) (Pedroche et al. 2005), Panama (Wysor 2004).
Africa: Egypt (Aleem 1993), Eritrea (Lipkin & Silva 2002), Kenya (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Mauritius (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Mozambique (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Somalia (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), South Africa (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Tanzania (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Oliveira, Österlund & Mtolera 2005).
Indian Ocean Islands: Aldabra Islands (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Diego Garcia Atoll (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Réunion (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Seychelles (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996).
South-west Asia: India (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Sahoo et al. 2001), Israel (Einav 2007), Pakistan (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996).
Asia: China (Tseng 1984), Japan (Okamura 1936, Yoshida 1998, Titlyanov et al 2006), Taiwan (Huang 2000).
South-east Asia: Indonesia (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Philippines (Silva, Meñez & Moe 1987), Singapore (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Thailand (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Vietnam (Tsutsui et al. 2005).
Australia and New Zealand: New Zealand (Adams 1994), Norfolk Island (Millar 1999).
Pacific Islands: Federated States of Micronesia (Lobban & Tsuda 2003, Tsuda 2006), Fiji (South & Skelton 2003), Hawaiian Islands (Abbott & Huisman, 2004), Mariana Islands (Tsuda 2003), Marshall Islands (Taylor 1950), Solomon Islands (Womersley & Bailey 1970).
Nomenclatural notes
According to South & Skelton (2003) this is the accepted name. John et al. (2004) cite the authority for this species as (Solms) Schnetter & Bula-Meyer.
Source of synonymy
Berger, S., Fettweiss, U., Gleissberg, S., Liddle, L.B., Richter, U., Sawitzky, H. & Zuccarello, G.C. (2003). 18S rDNA phylogeny and evaluation of cap development in Polyphysaceae (formerly Acetabulariaceae; Dasyladales, Chlorophyta). Phycologia 42: 506-561.
Key references
Pedroche, F.F., Silva, P.C., Aguilar-Rosas, L.E., Dreckmann, K.M. & Aguilar-Rosas, R. (2005). Catálogo de las algas marinas bentónicas del Pacífico de México. I. Chlorophycota. pp. i-viii, 17-146. Ensenada, México: Universidad Autónoma de Baja California.
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.
SAG Cultures
SAG Cultures may be viewed at http://sagdb.uni-goettingen.de/showstrains.php?genus=Acetabularia&species=parvula
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=Acetabularia&Species=parvula
Created: 05 July 1998 by M.D. Guiry
Verified by: 23 June 2010 by Wendy Guiry
Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 1648 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.)
Cinelli, F. (1979). Acetabularia acetabulum (L.) Silva, Acetabularia parvula Solms-Laubach and Dasycladus vermicularis (Scopoli) Krasser (Chlorophyta, Dasycladales): ecology and distribution in the Mediterranean Sea.. In: Developmental Biology of Acetabularia. (Bonotto, S., Kefeli, V. & Puiseux-Dao, S. Eds), pp. 3-14. Amsterdam: Elsevier North Holland Biomedical Press.
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Citing AlgaeBase
Cite this record as:
Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2013.
AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org; searched on 22 May 2013.
Algaebase taxon LSID: No taxonomy record found for this level.
