Rhodophyllis divaricata (Stackhouse) Papenfuss

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Rhodophyta
Subphylum Eurhodophytina
Class Florideophyceae
Subclass Rhodymeniophycidae
Order Gigartinales
Family Cystocloniaceae
Genus Rhodophyllis

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Ría de Arousa, Galicia, Spain, 2008. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

microscope, Ría de Arousa, Galicia, Spain, 2008; tetrasporangia. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

microscope, Ría de Arousa, Galicia, Spain, 2008, Ignacio Bárbara; TS thallus. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

Spain, Galicia, A Coruña, Ártabra, 2005; superficial and TS microscope view. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

Rhodophyllis divaricata (Stackhouse) Papenfuss Spain, Galicia, A Coruña, Ártabra, 2005; superficial and TS microscope view

Publication details
Rhodophyllis divaricata (Stackhouse) Papenfuss 1950: 190

Original publication: Papenfuss, G.F. (1950). Review of the genera of algae described by Stackhouse. Hydrobiologia 2: 181-208.
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Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Rhodophyllis is Rhodophyllis bifida (Greville) Kützing.

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

Basionym
Bifida divaricata Stackhouse

Type information
Type locality: Hampshire, England (Dixon & Irvine 1977). Lectotype: riginal description (Hudson 1778) in the absence of material (Dixon & Irvine 1977

Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), divaricate, spreading at a wide angle (Stearn 1973).

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Bifida divaricata Stackhouse 1809

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Rhodophyllis bifida var. incrassata Harvey
Rhodophyllis bifida var. latifrons Holmes & Batters
Fucus bifidus Hudson 1778
Rhodymenia bifida Greville 1830
Rhodophyllis bifida (Greville) Kützing 1847
Leptophyllium bifidum (Greville) Nägei 1847
Rhodophyllis appendiculata J.Agardh 1851

General environment
This is a Marine species.

Common names

(as Rhodophyllis divaricata (Stackhouse) Papenfuss)
English: Leafy Rose Weed (Bunker et al. 2010).

Description
Translucent, membranous, carmine fronds, dichotomously divided from base, in dense globose tufts to 100 mm high. Segments with rounded apices, veins absent, margins smooth or fringed with leafy processes.

Habitat
On rocks, shells and epiphytic, subtidal, widely distributed, common.

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Rhodophyllis bifida var. incrassata Harvey)
Europe: Britain (Newton 1931), Ireland (Newton 1931).

(as Rhodymenia bifida Greville)
Ireland: Cork (Renouf 1931).

(as Rhodophyllis bifida (Greville) Kützing)
Ireland: Antrim (Johnson & Hensman 1896), Mayo (Cotton 1912).

Europe: Britain (Newton 1931), Greece (Diannelidis 1953), Ireland (Cotton 1912), Spain (Miranda 1931, Miranda 1934), Sweden (Kylin 1907, Kylin 1944).

(as Rhodophyllis appendiculata J.Agardh)
Europe: Balearic Islands (, Rodríguez y Femenías 1889, Ribera Siguán & Gómez Garreta 1984), Britain (Newton 1931), France (Feldmann 1954), Portugal (Ardré 1970).

Africa: Morocco (Dangeard 1949).

(as Rhodophyllis divaricata (Stackhouse) Papenfuss)
Ireland: Antrim (Guiry 1978, Morton 1994), Clare (De Valéra et al. 1979, Maggs 1983), Cork (Guiry 1978), Derry (Morton 1994), Donegal (Morton 2003), Down (Morton 1994), Galway (Maggs 1983), Kerry (Whelan & Cullinane 1985), Waterford (Guiry 1977, Guiry 1978).

Europe: Adriatic (Giaccone 1978, Munda 1979), Balearic Islands (, Rodríguez y Femenías 1889, Ribera Siguán 1983, Ribera Siguán & Gómez Garreta 1984), Baltic Sea (Nielsen et al. 1995), Britain (Dixon & Irvine 1977, Hardy & Guiry 2003), Corsica (Boudouresque & Perret 1977, Coppejans 1979, Verlaque 1984), France (Feldmann 1954, Augier, Boudouresque & Laborel 1971, Coppejans 1995, Dizerbo & Herpe 2007, Loiseaux-de Goër & Noailles 2008, Anon. 2012), Greece (Gerloff & Geissler 1974, Athanasiadis 1987), Ireland (Guiry 1977, Guiry 1978, De Valéra et al. 1979, Maggs 1983, Whelan & Cullinane 1985, Morton 1994, Guiry 2012), Italy (Giaccone 1969, Cinelli 1971, Feoli & Bressan 1972, Edwards et al. 1975, Cecere et al. 1996, Furnari, Cormaci & Serio 1999, Rindi, Sartoni & Cinelli 2002, Serio et al 2006), Malta (Cormaci et al. 1997), Netherlands (Stegenga & Mol 1983), Norway (Rueness 1997), Pelagean Islands (Alongi et al. 2012), Portugal (Ardré 1970, Araújo et al., 2003, Bárbara et al. 2006, Araujo et al. 2009, Araújo, Bárbara & Sousa-Pinto in press), Scandinavia (Athanasiadis 1996), Sicily (Alongi et al. 2012), Spain (Ballesteros 1981, Ballesteros & Romero 1982, Boisset & Barceló 1984, Pérez-Ruzafa & Honrubia 1984, Gallardo et al. 1985, Barceló i Martí 1986, Rodriguez Prieto & Polo Alberti 1988, Soto & Conde 1989, Pérez-Ruzafa et al. 1991, Barbara, Cremades & López Rodriguez 1992, Flores-Moya et al. 1994, Bárbara, Cremades & Pérez-Cirera 1995, Conde et al. 1996, Conde, Altamirano & Flores-Moya 1996, Bárbara & Cremades 1996, Rodríguez-Prieto & Polo, L. 1996, Veiga, Cremades & Bárbara 1998, Rodriguez-Prieto & Polo Albertí 1998, Peña & Bárbara 2002, Valenzuela Miranda 2002, Bárbara et al., 2003, Gorostiaga et al., 2004, Bárbara et al. 2004, Bárbara et al. 2005, Peña & Bárbara 2006, Pena & Bárbara 2008, Peña & Bárbara 2008, Peña & Bárbara 2010, Cires Rodriguez & Cuesta Moliner 2010), Turkey (Europe) (Cirik, Zeybeck, Aysel & Cirik 1990, Taskin et al. 2008 ).

Atlantic Islands: Azores (Neto 1994), Canary Islands (López-Hernández, Gil-Rodríguez & Afonso-Carrillo 1990, Guadalupe et al. 1995, Woelkerling et al. 1998, Haroun et al. 2002, Gil-Rodríguez et al. 2003, John et al. 2004, Anon 2011), Madeira (Neto, Cravo & Haroun 2001, John et al. 2004).

Africa: Egypt (Aleem 1993), Mauritania (John et al. 2004), Tunisia (Ben Maiz, Boudouresque & Quahchi 1987).

South-west Asia: Turkey (Asia) (Taskin et al. 2008 ).

Australia and New Zealand: Auckland Islands (Papenfuss 1964).

Key references
Dixon, P.S. & Irvine, L.M. (1977). Seaweeds of the British Isles. Volume 1. Rhodophyta. Part 1. Introduction, Nemaliales, Gigartinales. pp. [i]v-xi, [1]4-252, 90 figs. London: British Museum (Natural History).

Loiseaux-de Goër, S. & Noailles, M.-C. (2008). Algues de Roscoff. pp. [1]-215, col. figs. Roscoff: Editions de la Station Biologique de Roscoff.

Rodríguez-Prieto, C., Ballesteros, E., Boisset, F. & Afonso-Carrillo, J. (2013). Guía de las macroalgas y fanerógamas marinas del Mediterráneo occidental. pp. [1]-656. Barcelona: Ediciones Omega, S.A..

Skelton, P.A. & South, G.R. (2007). The benthic marine algae of the Samoan Archipelago, South Pacific, with emphasis on the Apia District. Nova Hedwigia Beihefte 132: 1-350.

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

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=Rhodophyllis&Species=divaricata

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 31 March 1996 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 07 May 2013 by M.D. Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 2114 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.)

López-Hernández, M., Gil-Rodríguez, M.C. & Afonso-Carrillo, J. (1990). Sobre la presencia de Rhodophyllis divaricata (Stachkouse) Papenfuss (Rhodophyllidaceae Engler, Rhodophyta) en el Archipielago Canario. Homenaje al profesor Dr. Telesforo Bravo 1: 479-482.

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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 18 May 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:77394