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Nothogenia fastigiata (Bory de Saint-Vincent) P.G.Parkinson

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Rhodophyta
Subphylum Eurhodophytina
Class Florideophyceae
Subclass Nemaliophycidae
Order Nemaliales
Family Scinaiaceae
Genus Nothogenia

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Nothogenia fastigiata, Wineglass Bay, Tasmania. 04 Nov 2009. M.D. Guiry. © Michael Guiry (mike.guiry@nuigalway.ie).

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

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

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

San Ignacio, Niebla, X Region, Chile. 01 Jan 2002. Dirk Schories. © Dirk Schories (dirk.schories@gmx.de).

Nothogenia fastigiata (Bory de Saint-Vincent) P.G.Parkinson Nothogenia fastigiata, Fortesque Bay, Tasmania

Publication details
Nothogenia fastigiata (Bory de Saint-Vincent) P.G.Parkinson 1983: 608-609

Original publication: Parkinson, P.G. (1983). The typification and status of the name Chaetangium (Algae). Taxon 32: 605-610.

Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Nothogenia is Nothogenia variolosa (Montagne) Montagne.

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

Basionym
Halymenia fastigiata Bory de Saint-Vincent

Type information
Type locality: Îles Malouines [Falkland Islands] (Dumont d'Urville 1825: 22). Holotype: PC ? (Huisman & Womersley 2006: 91). Notes: Huisman & Womersley (2006: 91) note that the holotype is presumably in PC, but cannot presently be located (B. de Reviers, pers. comm., 9 May 2006). Fragments in LD (Herb. Agardh 32591)

Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), fastigiate, with branches clustered, parallel and erect, giving a narrow elongated habit (occasionally meaning branched reaching to the same height) (Stearn 1973).

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Halymenia fastigiata Bory de Saint-Vincent 1825
Dumontia fastigiata (Bory de Saint-Vincent) Bory de Saint-Vincent 1828
Halarachnion fastigiatum (Bory de Saint-Vincent) Kützing 1849
Chaetangium fastigiatum (Bory de Saint-Vincent) J.Agardh 1851
Rhodosaccion fastigiatum (Bory de Saint-Vincent) Montagne 1854

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Chondrus variolosus Montagne 1842
Nothogenia variolosa (Montagne) Montagne 1843
Chaetangium chilense J.Agardh 1847
Chaetangium variolosum (Montagne) J.Agardh 1851
Nothogenia chilensis (J.Agardh) Montagne 1852
Chaetangium lingula Harvey 1859
Chondrus crispus var. pygmaeus Reinsch 1890

General environment
This is a marine species.

Habitat
Subantarctic species; on intertidal platforms (Huisman & Womersley 1994; 2006).

Distribution by country

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Chaetangium chilense J.Agardh)
Antarctic and the subantarctic islands: Fuegia (Papenfuss 1964).

(as Chaetangium fastigiatum (Bory de Saint-Vincent) J.Agardh)
South America: Falkland Islands (Kylin & Skottsberg 1919), Peru (Acleto 1973), Tierra del Fuego (Kylin & Skottsberg 1919).

Australia and New Zealand: Auckland Islands (Kylin & Skottsberg 1919).

Antarctic and the subantarctic islands: Antarctica/Subantarctic Islands (Papenfuss 1964), Kerguelen (Kylin & Skottsberg 1919), Macquarie Island (Ricker 1987), South Georgia (Kylin & Skottsberg 1919).

(as Nothogenia fastigiata (Bory de Saint-Vincent) P.G.Parkinson)
South America: Argentina (Boraso & Zaixso 2011), Chile (Santelices 1989, Ramírez & Santelices 1991, Hoffmann & Santelices 1997), Peru (Ramírez & Santelices 1991).

Australia and New Zealand: New South Wales (Millar & Kraft 1993, Huisman & Womersley 2006), New Zealand (Adams 1994, Nelson 2012), Tasmania (Huisman & Womersley 1994, Huisman & Womersley 2006).

Key references
Huisman, J.M. & Womersley, H.B.S. (1994). Family Galaxauraceae Parkinson 1983: 608. In: The marine benthic flora of southern Australia. Rhodophyta - Part IIIA. (Womersley, H.B.S. Eds), pp. 99-118. Canberra:

Huisman, J.M. & Womersley, H.B.S. (2006). Nothogenia. In: Algae of Australia Nemaliales. (Huisman, J.M. Eds), pp. 91-93. Canberra: Australian Biological Resources Study.

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

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=Nothogenia&Species=fastigiata

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 15 July 1998 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 02 June 2009 by Wendy Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 3886 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.)

Damonte, E.B., Neyts, J., Pujol, C.A., Snoeck, R., Andrei, G., Ikeda, S., Witvrouw, M., Reymen, D., Haines, H., Matulewicz, M.C., Cerezo, A., Coto, C.E. & De Clercq, E. (1994). Antiviral activity of a sulfated polysaccharide from the red seaweed Nothogenia fastigiata. Biochem. Pharmacol. 47: 2187-2192.
Haines, H. H., Matulewicz, M. C. & Cerezo, A. S. (1990). Sulfated galactans from the red seaweed Nothogenia fastigiata (Nemaliales, Rhodophyta). Proceedings of the International Seaweed Symposium 13: 637-643.
Haines, H.H., Matulewicz, M.C. & Cerezo, A.S. (1990). Sulfated galactans from the red seaweed Nothogenia fastigiata (Nemaliales, Rhodophyta). Hydrobiologia 204/205: 637-643.
Matulewicz, M.C., Haines, H.H. & Cerezo, A.S. (1994). Sulphated xylogalactan from Nothogenia fastigiata. Phytochemistry 36: 97-103.

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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:71478

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