Catenella caespitosa (Withering) L.M.Irvine
Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Subkingdom Biliphyta
Phylum Rhodophycophyta
Subphylum Eurhodophytina
Class Florideophyceae
Subclass Rhodymeniophycidae
Order Gigartinales
Family Caulacanthaceae
Genus Catenella
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Spiddal, Co. Galway, Ireland; rocks at MHWN. 18 Apr 2002. Michael Guiry. © Michael Guiry.
microscope, Spain, Galicia, A Coruña, Oza, 2004. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara.
microscope, Spain, Galicia, A Coruña, Oza, 2004; TS of thallus. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara.
microscope, TS thallus; Spain, Galicia, Ría de Coruña, 2007. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara.
microscope, Spain, Galicia, Ría de Coruña, 2007. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara.
microscope, Spain, Galicia, Ría de Coruña, 2007. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara.
Catenella caespitosa Curragh, Co. Waterford, Ireland. 27 Aug 2010. M.D. Guiry. © M.D. Guiry.
Catenella caespitosa Curragh, Co. Waterford, Ireland. 27 Aug 2010. M.D. Guiry. © M.D. Guiry.
Catenella caespitosa Curragh, Co. Waterford, Ireland. 27 Aug 2010. M.D. Guiry. © M.D. Guiry.
Catenella caespitosa (Withering) L.M.Irvine Spiddal, Co. Galway, Ireland; rocks at MHWN
Publication details
Catenella caespitosa (Withering) L.M.Irvine in M. Parke & P.S. Dixon 1976: 590
Original publication: Parke, M. & Dixon, P.S. (1976). Check-list of British marine algae - third revision. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 56: 527-594.
Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Catenella is Catenella opuntia (Goodenough & Woodward) Greville.
Status of name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Basionym
Ulva caespitosa Withering
Type information
Type locality: "Side Rocks, Anglesey", Wales (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996: 280). Holotype: OXF (Dixon & Irvine 1977: 190).
Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), growing in patches or tufts, caespitose (Stearn 1973).
Homotypic Synonym(s)
Ulva caespitosa Withering 1776
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Fucus repens Lightfoot 1777
Fucus opuntia Goodenough & Woodward 1797
Chondria opuntia (Goodenough & Woodward) C.Agardh 1817
Lomentaria opuntia (Goodenough & Woodward) Gaillon 1828
Catenella opuntia (Goodenough & Woodward) Greville 1830
Catenella repens (Lightfoot) Batters 1902
General environment
This is a marine species.
Description
Mat of interlaced blackish purple fronds, 20 mm high, irregularly branched, constricted into flattened segments like tiny Prickly Pear cacti, from creeping stolons with discoid attachments.
Habitat
On sheltered shady rocks or soil near high tide level, often beneath Fucus spiralis, generally distributed, abundant.
Similar species
Gelidium pusillum.
Detailed distribution with sources
(as Fucus repens Lightfoot)
Ireland: Wexford (Tighe 1803).
Europe: Britain (Guiry 1997), Ireland (Tighe 1803).
(as Catenella opuntia (Goodenough & Woodward) Greville)
Ireland: Mayo (Cotton 1912).
Europe: Ireland (Cotton 1912), Spain (Miranda 1931), Turkey (Europe) (Güven & Öztig 1971).
South America: Chile (Kylin & Skottsberg 1919), Falkland Islands (Kylin & Skottsberg 1919), Tierra del Fuego (Kylin & Skottsberg 1919).
Africa: Morocco (Dangeard 1949).
Australia and New Zealand: New Zealand (Kylin & Skottsberg 1919).
(as Catenella repens (Lightfoot) Batters)
Ireland: Antrim (Adams 1904), Cork (Cullinane 1971), Down (Morton 1974), Leitrim (Cullinane 1970), Limerick (Cullinane 1969), Louth (Synnott 1969), Wexford (Parkes & Scannell 1969, Norton 1970).
Europe: Adriatic (Giaccone 1978), Britain (Newton 1931), France (Feldmann 1954), Iceland (Caram & Jónsson 1972), Ireland (Adams 1907, Cullinane 1969, Cullinane 1971), Italy (Giaccone 1969), Portugal (Ardré 1970), Spain (Seoane-Camba 1965).
Atlantic Islands: Bermuda (Taylor 1960), Madeira (Levring 1974).
North America: Florida (Taylor 1960).
Central America: Belize (Taylor 1960), Panama (Taylor 1960).
Caribbean Islands: Bahamas (Taylor 1960, Taylor 1969), Cuba (Taylor 1960, Cabrera, Moreira & Suárez 2004), Jamaica (Taylor 1960), Lesser Antilles (Taylor 1960), Trinidad (Richardson 1975), Virgin Islands (Taylor 1960).
South America: Brazil (Joly 1957, Taylor 1960, Joly 1965), Galápagos Islands (Taylor 1945).
(as Catenella caespitosa (Withering) L.M.Irvine)
Ireland: Antrim (Morton 1994), Clare (De Valéra et al. 1979), Derry (Morton 1994), Donegal (Morton 2003), Down (Morton 1994), Waterford (Guiry 1977, Guiry 1978).
Europe: Britain (Dixon & Irvine 1977, Hardy & Guiry 2003), France (Coppejans 1995, Dizerbo & Herpe 2007), Ireland (Guiry 1977, Guiry 1978, De Valéra et al. 1979, Morton 1994), Italy (Furnari, Cormaci & Serio 1999, Furnari et al. 2003, Furnari et al. 2003, Furnari et al. 2003, Furnari et al. 2003), Netherlands (Stegenga & Mol 1983), Norway (Rueness 1997), Portugal (Araujo et al. 2009, Araújo, Bárbara & Sousa-Pinto in press), Scandinavia (Athanasiadis 1996), Slovenia (Rindi & Battelli 2005), Spain (Fernández & Niell 1982, Gallardo et al. 1985, Pérez-Cirera 1989, Flores-Moya, Vera-Gonzalez & Conde 1989, Conde et al. 1996, Bárbara & Cremades 1996, Veiga, Cremades & Bárbara 1998, Calvo, Bárbara & Cremades 1999, Veiga Villar 1999, Calvo & Bárbara 2002, Peña & Bárbara 2002, Gorostiaga et al., 2004, Bárbara et al. 2005).
Atlantic Islands: Ascension (John et al. 2004), Azores (Neto 1994, Tittley & Neto 1994), Canary Islands (Gil-Rodríguez & Afonso-Carrillo 1980, Price, John & Lawson 1986, Guadalupe et al. 1995, Haroun et al. 2002, Gil-Rodríguez et al. 2003, John et al. 2004), Madeira (Neto, Cravo & Haroun 2001, John et al. 2004).
Central America: Belize (Littler & Littler 1997).
Caribbean Islands: Caribbean (Littler & Littler 2000), Cuba (Cabrera, Moreira & Suárez 2004, Suárez 2005), Trinidad & Tobago (Duncan & Lee Lum 2006).
South America: Colombia (Díaz-Pulido & Díaz-Ruíz 2003), Venezuela (Ganesan 1990).
Africa: Angola (John et al. 2004), Kenya (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Liberia (John, Lawson & Ameka, 2003, John et al. 2004), Madagascar (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Mozambique (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Nigeria (Price, John & Lawson 1986, Lawson & John 1987, John, Lawson & Ameka, 2003, John et al. 2004), Tanzania (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Tunisia (Ben Maiz, Boudouresque & Quahchi 1987), West Africa (Price, John & Lawson 1986).
South-west Asia: Bangladesh (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), India (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Sahoo et al. 2001), Pakistan (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Turkey (Asia) (Taskin et al. 2008).
Asia: Japan (Yoshida, Nakajima & Nakata 1990, Yoshida 1998).
South-east Asia: Malaysia (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Philippines (Silva, Meñez & Moe 1987), Singapore (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Thailand (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996).
Nomenclatural notes
Stegenga & Mol (1983: 162) cite this species as Catenella caespitosa (Withering) Dixon & L. Irvine
Key references
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.
Dixon, P.S. & Irvine, L.M. (1977). Seaweeds of the British Isles. Volume 1. Rhodophyta. Part 1. Introduction, Nemaliales, Gigartinales. pp. xi + 252, 90 figs. London: British Museum (Natural History).
SAG Cultures
No records have been found on the SAG site.
NCBI Nucleotide Sequences
No sequences have been found on the NCBI site.
Created: 31 March 1996 by M.D. Guiry
Verified by: 08 February 2008 by M.D. Guiry
Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 1958 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.)
Prud'homme van Reine, W.F., Sluiman, H.J. & Marchand, R.P. (1983). Red algae found on European salt-marshes. II. Catenella caespitosa (Rhabdoniaceae). Aquatic Botany 15: 287-298.
