Xiphophora chondrophylla (R.Brown ex Turner) Montagne ex Harvey

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Chromista
Phylum Ochrophyta
Class Phaeophyceae
Order Fucales
Family Xiphophoraceae
Genus Xiphophora

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Lorne, Victoria, Australia. 25 May 2011. John Huisman. © John Huisman (j.huisman@murdoch.edu.au).

Xiphophora chondrophylla, Fortesque Bay, Tasmania. 03 Nov 2009. M.D. Guiry. © Michael Guiry (mike.guiry@nuigalway.ie).

Xiphophora chondrophylla, with Corallina officinalis Safety Cove, Tasmania, Australia. 01 Nov 2009. M.D. Guiry. © Michael Guiry (mike.guiry@nuigalway.ie).

Xiphophora chondrophylla, Tesselated Pavement, Pirates Bay, Tasmania. 30 Oct 2009. M.D. Guiry. © Michael Guiry (mike.guiry@nuigalway.ie).

Xiphophora chondrophylla, Tinderbox, Tasmania. 30 Oct 2009. M.D. Guiry. © Michael Guiry (mike.guiry@nuigalway.ie).

Xiphophora chondrophylla (R.Brown ex Turner) Montagne ex Harvey Xiphophora chondrophylla, Tinderbox, Tasmania

Publication details
Xiphophora chondrophylla (R.Brown ex Turner) Montagne ex Harvey 1855: 215

Original publication: Harvey, W.H. (1855). Algae. In: The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. discovery ships Erebus and Terror, in the years 1839-1843, under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross.... II. Flora Novae-Zelandiae. Part II. Flowerless plants. (Hooker, J.D. Eds), pp. 211-266. London: Reeve.
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Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Xiphophora is Xiphophora billardieri Montagne.

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

Basionym
Fucus chondrophyllus R.Brown ex Turner

Type information
Type locality: Port Dalrymple (Tamar Est. mouth), Tasmania (Womersley 1987: 345). Type: BM (Womersley 1987: 345).

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Fucodium chondrophyllum (R.Brown ex Turner) J.Agardh
Fucus chondrophyllus R.Brown ex Turner 1819
Ascophyllum chondrophyllum (R.Brown ex Turner) Kuntze 1891
Ascophylla chondrophylla (R.Brown ex Turner) Kuntze 1891

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Fucodium chondrophyllum var. minus J.Agardh 1878
Xiphophora chondrophylla var. maxima (J.Agardh) E.M.Heine 1932
Xiphophora chondrophylla var. minor (J.Agardh) E.M.Heine 1932
Xiphophora chondrophylla subsp. minor (J.Agardh) E.L.Rice 1989

General environment
This is a marine species.

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Xiphophora chondrophylla (R.Brown ex Turner) Montagne ex Harvey)
Australia and New Zealand: New Zealand (Adams 1994, Cho et al. 2006, Harper et al. 2012), South Australia (Womersley 1987), Tasmania (Womersley 1987), Victoria (Womersley 1987).

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

(as Xiphophora chondrophylla subsp. minor (J.Agardh) E.L.Rice)
Australia and New Zealand: New Zealand (Nelson & Phillips 1996).

Key references
Cho, G.Y, Rousseau, F., Reviers, B. de & Boo, S.M. (2006). Phylogenetic relationships within the Fucales (Phaeophyceae) assessed by the photosystem I coding psaA sequences. Phycologia 45: 512-519.

De Toni, G.B. (1895). Sylloge algarum omnium hucusque cognitarum. Vol. III. Fucoideae. Vol. 3 pp. [i]-xvi, [1]-638. Patavii [Padua]: Sumptibus auctoris.

Womersley, H.B.S. (1987). The marine benthic flora of southern Australia. Part II. pp. 481, 169 figs, 1 table, 8 plates, 4 maps. Adelaide: South Australian Government Printing Division.

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

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=Xiphophora&Species=chondrophylla

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 12 July 1998 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 05 September 2012 by M.D. Guiry

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References
(Please note: only references with the binomials in the title are included. The information is from the Literature database.)

Raven, J.A., Beardall, J., Johnston, A.M., Kübler, J.E. & McInroy, S.G. (1996). Inorganic carbon acquisition by Xiphophora chondrophylla (Phaeophyta, Fucales). Phycologia 35: 83-89, 2 figs, 8 tables.
Wright, P.J., Clayton, M.N., Chudek, J.A., Foster, R. & Reed, R.H. (1987). The carbohydrate altritol in Bifurcariopsis capensis, Hormosira banksii, Notheia anomala and Xiphophora chondrophylla (Fucales, Phaeophyta) from the southern hemisphere. Phycologia 26: 429-434.

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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 19 June 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:71505