Valonia macrophysa Kützing

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Chlorophyta
Class Ulvophyceae
Order Cladophorales
Family Valoniaceae
Genus Valonia

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Selce, northern Croatia. 26 Mar 2011. Mat Vestjens & Anne Frijsinger. © Mat Vestjens & Anne Frijsinger (annenmat@natuurlijkmooi.net).

Houtman Abrolhos, Western Australia. John Huisman. © John Huisman (j.huisman@murdoch.edu.au). From: Huisman, J.M. (2000). Marine Plants of Australia. University of Western Australia Press, Nedlands, Western Australia..

KwaZulu-Natal. Heroen Verbruggen. © Heroen Verbruggen (heroen.verbruggen@gmail.com). From: De Clerck, O., Bolton, J.J., Anderson, R.J. & Coppejans, E. (2005). Guide to the seaweeds of KwaZulu-Natal. Scripta Botanica Belgica 33: 1-294. Purchase information.

Valonia macrophysa Kützing Selce, northern Croatia

Publication details
Valonia macrophysa Kützing 1843: 307

Original publication: Kützing, F.T. (1843). Phycologia generalis oder Anatomie, Physiologie und Systemkunde der Tange... Mit 80 farbig gedruckten Tafeln, gezeichnet und gravirt vom Verfasser. pp. [part 1]: [i]-xxxii, [1]-142, [part 2:] 143-458, 1, err.], pls 1-80. Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus.
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Type species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Valonia is Valonia aegagropila C.Agardh.

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

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Valonia uvaria Kützing 1845
Valonia macrophysa f. uvaria (Kützing) Kuckuck 1907

General environment
This is a Marine species.

Type information
Type locality: Lessina [Hvar Island, Croatia] (Kützing 1843: 307). Type: L?

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Valonia macrophysa Kützing)
Europe: Adriatic (Giaccone 1978, Ercegovic 1980, Gallardo et al. 1993), Balearic Islands (Dao 1957, Ribera Siguán & Gómez Garreta 1985, Ballesteros 1992, Gallardo et al. 1993), Corsica (Boudouresque & Perret 1977, Coppejans 1979, Gallardo et al. 1993, Rodríguez Prieto, Boudouresque & Marcot-Coqueugniot 1993), France (Feldmann 1937, Augier, Boudouresque & Laborel 1971, Coppejans 1972, Gallardo et al. 1993, Anon. 2012), Greece (Gerloff & Geissler 1974, Haritonidis & Tsekos 1976, Tsekos & Haritonidis 1977, Athanasiadis 1987, Gallardo et al. 1993, Tsirika & Haritonidis 2005), Italy (Giaccone 1969, Cinelli 1971, Edwards et al. 1975, Cinelli et al. 1976, Gallardo et al. 1993, Gallardo et al. 1993, Cecere et al. 1996, Furnari, Cormaci & Serio 1999, Rindi, Sartoni & Cinelli 2002, Serio et al 2006), Malta (Cormaci et al. 1997), Spain (Ballesteros & Romero 1982, Ballesteros 1983, Pérez-Ruzafa & Honrubia 1984, Gallardo et al. 1985, Rodriguez Prieto & Polo Alberti 1988, Soto & Conde 1989, Gallardo et al. 1993, Flores-Moya et al. 1994, Flores-Moya et al. 1995, Invernón et al. 2009, Hernández et al. 2010), Turkey (Europe) (Güner, Aysel, Sukatar & Öztürk 1985, Gallardo et al. 1993, Taskin et al. 2008 ).

Atlantic Islands: Ascension (John et al. 2004), Azores (Tittley & Neto 2005), Bermuda (Taylor 1960), Canary Islands (Gil-Rodríguez & Afonso-Carrillo 1980, Haroun et al. 2002, Aldanondo-Aristizábal, Domínguez-Alvarez & Gil-Rodríguez 2003, Gil-Rodríguez et al. 2003, John et al. 2004, Anon 2011), Madeira (Neto, Cravo & Haroun 2001), Salvage Islands (Audiffred & Weisscher 1984, John et al. 2004).

North America: Florida (Taylor 1928, Taylor 1960), Texas (Wynne 2009).

Central America: Belize (Norris & Bucher 1982, Littler & Littler 1997), México (Pacific) (Pedroche et al. 2005, Pedroche et al. 2005), Panama (Wysor & Kooistra 2003).

Caribbean Islands: Bahamas (Taylor 1960, Norris & Olsen 1991), Barbados (Taylor 1969), Caribbean (Littler & Littler 2000), Cayman Islands (Taylor 1960), Cuba (Taylor 1960, Suárez 2005), Hispaniola (Taylor 1960), Jamaica (Taylor 1960), Lesser Antilles (Taylor 1969), Trinidad & Tobago (Duncan & Lee Lum 2006), Virgin Islands (Taylor 1960).

Western Atlantic: Trop. & Subtrop. W. Atlantic (Wynne 2011).

South America: Brazil (Oliveira Filho 1977, Villaca et al. 2010, Moura 2010), Venezuela (Ganesan 1990).

Africa: Algeria (Gallardo et al. 1993), Egypt (Papenfuss 1968, Aleem 1993, Gallardo et al. 1993), Kenya (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Bolton, Oyieke & Gwanda 2007), Libya (Gallardo et al. 1993), Madagascar (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Mauritius (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Morocco (Gallardo et al. 1993, Benhissoune, Boudouresque & Verlaque 2001, Benhissoune, Boudouresque & Verlaque 2001), Mozambique (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), South Africa (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Leliaert & Coppejans 2004, Coppejans, Leliaert & Verbruggen 2005), Tanzania (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Oliveira, Österlund & Mtolera 2005), Tunisia (Meñez & Mathieson 1981, Ben Maiz, Boudouresque & Quahchi 1987, Gallardo et al. 1993).

South-west Asia: Levant states (Gallardo et al. 1993), Turkey (Asia) (Taskin et al. 2008 ).

Asia: Japan (Okamura 1936, Segawa 1981, Yoshida, Nakajima & Nakata 1990, Yoshida 1998, Elvira et al. 2012).

South-east Asia: Indonesia (Verheij & Prud'homme van Reine 1993), Philippines (Silva, Meñez & Moe 1987), Vietnam (Tien 2007).

Australia and New Zealand: Houtman Abrolhos (Huisman 1997), New South Wales (Millar & Kraft 1994, Huisman 2000), Queensland (Lewis 1987, Phillips 1997, Phillips 2002, Bostock & Holland 2010), Western Australia (Huisman & Walker 1990, Huisman 2000).

Pacific Islands: American Samoa (Skelton et al. 2004), Fiji (South & Skelton 2003, Littler & Littler 2003), French Polynesia (Payri, N'Yeurt & Orempuller 2000).

Key references
Braune, W. (2008). Meeresalgen. Ein Farbbildführer zu den verbreiteten benthischen Grün- Braun- und Rotalgen der Weltmeere. pp. [1]-596, pls 1-266 (colour photographs). Ruggell: A.R.G. Gantner Verlag.

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.

Funk, G. (1955). Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Meeresalgen von Neapel: Zugleich mikrophotographischer Atlas. Pubblicazioni della Stazione Zoologica di Napoli 25(Suppl.): i-x , 1- 178, 36 figs.

Leliaert, F. & Coppejans, E. (2004). Crystalline cell inclusions: a new diagnostic character in the Cladophorophyceae (Chlorophyta). Phycologia 43: 189-203.

Pedroche, F.F., Silva, P.C., Aguilar-Rosas, L.E., Dreckmann, K.M. & Aguilar-Rosas, R. (2005). Catálogo de las algas marinas bentónicas del Pacífico de México. I. Chlorophycota. pp. i-viii, 17-146. Ensenada, México: Universidad Autónoma de Baja California.

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. (2004). New records and notes on marine benthic algae of American Samoa - Chlorophyta & Phaeophyta. Cryptogamie Algologie 25: 291-312.

UTEX Cultures
UTEX Culture LB 1977 Valonia macrophysa
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SAG Cultures
SAG Cultures may be viewed at http://sagdb.uni-goettingen.de/showstrains.php?genus=Valonia&species=macrophysa

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=Valonia&Species=macrophysa

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

KU-MACC Cultures
Strain Number: KU-992, Valonia macrophysa
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Created: 16 September 1997 by M.D. Guiry

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

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 2741 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.)

Chihara, M. (1959). Studies on the life history of the green algae in the warm seas around Japan (9). Supplementary note on the life history of Valonia macrophysa Kütz.. Japanese Journal of Botany 34: 257-266.
Guggino, S. & Gutknecht, J. (1982). Turgor regulation in Valonia macrophysa following osmotic shock. J. Mem. Biol. 67: 155-164.
Hastings, D.F. & Gutknecht, J. (1976). Ionic relations and the regulation of turgor pressure in the marine alga, Valonia macrophysa. J. Membrane Biol. 28: 263-275.
Staves, M.P. & La Claire, J.W., II (1985). Nuclear synchrony in Valonia macrophysa (Chlorophyta): light microscopy and flow cytometry. Journal of Phycology 21: 68-71, 2 figs.
Sugiyama, J., Harada, H., Fujiyoshi, Y. & Uyeda, N. (1985). Lattice images from ultrathin sections of cellulose microfibrils in the cell wall of Valonia macrophysa Kütz.. Planta 166: 161-168.

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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 22 May 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:76338