Chalmasia antillana Solms-Laubach
Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Chlorophyta
Class Ulvophyceae
Order Dasycladales
Family Polyphysaceae
Genus Chalmasia
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Cap with gametangia Photo-Atlas of living Dasycladales. Sigrid Berger. © Sigrid Berger (sberger@spup.de).
Publication details
Chalmasia antillana Solms-Laubach 1895: 12, pl. 3: figs 2, 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
This is the type species (holotype) of the genus Chalmasia.
Status of name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Homotypic Synonym(s)
Acetabularia antillana (Solms-Laubach) Egerod 1952
Polyphysa antillana (Solms-Laubach) M.J.Wynne 1986
General environment
This is a marine species.
Distribution by country
Detailed distribution with sources
(as Chalmasia antillana Solms-Laubach)
North America: Florida (Taylor 1960, Berger et al. 2003).
Caribbean Islands: Cuba (Suárez 2005), Lesser Antilles (Taylor 1960).
Western Atlantic: Trop. & Subtrop. W. Atlantic (Wynne 2011).
(as Acetabularia antillana (Solms-Laubach) Egerod)
Central America: Belize (Littler & Littler 1997).
Caribbean Islands: Caribbean (Littler & Littler 2000).
Key references
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.
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.
UTEX Cultures
UTEX Culture LB 2711 Chalmasia antillana
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SAG Cultures
SAG Cultures may be viewed at http://sagdb.uni-goettingen.de/showstrains.php?genus=Chalmasia&species=antillana
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=Chalmasia&Species=antillana
Created: 05 July 1998 by M.D. Guiry
Verified by: 12 January 2008 by M.D. Guiry
Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 457 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.)
Eiseman, N.J. (1970). The green alga Chalmasia antillana from the Florida Keys. Phycologia 9: 45-47, 4 figs.
Sosa, E.H. (1979). Chalmasia antillana (Dasycladales: Acetabulariaceae): un relicto en las algas marinas cubanas. Ciencias (Havana) Ser. 8 3: 71-85.
Linking to this page: http://www.algaebase.org/search/species/detail/?species_id=11670
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 21 May 2013.
Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:71710
