Acrochaete operculata J.A.Correa & R.Nielsen

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Chlorophyta
Class Ulvophyceae
Order Ulvales
Family Ulvellaceae
Genus Acrochaete

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Publication details
Acrochaete operculata J.A.Correa & R.Nielsen in Correa et al. 1988: 531, figs 15-38

Original publication: Correa, J.A., Nielsen, R. & Grund, D.W. (1988). Endophytic algae of Chondrus crispus (Rhodophyta). II. Acrochaete heteroclada sp. nov., A. operculata sp. nov., and Phaeophila dendroides (Chlorophyta). Journal of Phycology 24: 528-539.

Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Acrochaete is Acrochaete repens Pringsheim.

Status of name
This name is currently regarded as a taxonomic synonym of Ulvella operculata (Correa & R.Nielsen) R.Nielsen, C.J.O'Kelly & B.Wysor

Synonym(s)
No synonyms are currently included in AlgaeBase.

General environment
This is a Marine species.

Type information
Holotype locality: Pubnico Point (43º36' N, 65º48' W) (Correa, Nielsen & Grund 1988: 532). Holotype: J. Correa; 14 October 1985; endophytic in Chondrus crispus. ARL, Halifax NRCC No. 10713 (Correa, Nielsen & Grund 1988: 532). Notes: Isotype: ARL (NRCC No. 10715; C.

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Acrochaete operculata J.A.Correa & R.Nielsen)
Europe: Baltic Sea (Nielsen et al. 1995), Britain (Hardy & Guiry 2003, Brodie et al. 2007, Guiry 2012), Faroe Islands (Nielsen & Gunnarsson 2001).

North America: Nova Scotia (Correa, Nielsen & Grund 1988).

Source of synonymy
Nielsen, R., Petersen, G., Seberg, O., Daugbjerg, N., O'Kelly, C.J. & Wysor, B. (2013). Revision of the genus Ulvella (Ulvellaceae, Ulvophyceae) based on morphology and tufA gene sequences of species in culture, with Acrochaete and Pringsheimiella placed in synonymy. Phycologia 52(1): 37-56.

Key references
Brodie, J., Maggs, C.A. & John, D.M. (2007). Green seaweeds of Britain and Ireland. pp. [i-v], vi-xii, 1-242, 101 figs. London: British Phycological Society.

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

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=Acrochaete&Species=operculata

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 21 September 1996 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 11 March 2013 by Wendy Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 626 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.)

Correa, J.A. & McLachlan, J.L. (1994). Endophytic algae of Chondrus crispus (Rhodophyta). V. Fine structure of the infection by Acrochaete operculata (Chlorophyta). European Journal of Phycology 29: 33-47, 46 figs.
Correa, J.A., Nielsen, R. & Grund, D.W. (1988). Endophytic algae of Chondrus crispus (Rhodophyta). II. Acrochaete heteroclada sp. nov., A. operculata sp. nov., and Phaeophila dendroides (Chlorophyta). Journal of Phycology 24: 528-539.

Linking to this page: http://www.algaebase.org/search/species/detail/?species_id=1203

Citing AlgaeBase
Cite this record as:
Wendy 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 24 May 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:76353