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Bryopsis muscosa J.V.Lamouroux

Publication details
Bryopsis muscosa J.V.Lamouroux 1809: 333 [135]

Original publication: Lamouroux, J.V.F. (1809). Observations sur la physiologie des algues marines, et description de cinq nouveaux genres de cette famille. Nouveau Bulletin des Sciences, par la Société Philomathique de Paris 1: 330-333, fig. 2, pl. 6.
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Type species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Bryopsis is Bryopsis pennata J.V.Lamouroux.

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

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Bryopsis pinastroides Schousboe 1892

General environment
This is a Marine species.

Distribution by country

Type information
Type locality: Hab. in Gall. Mediterr. [Mediterranean France] (Lamouroux 1809: 333).

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Bryopsis muscosa J.V.Lamouroux)
Europe: Adriatic (Giaccone 1978, Ercegovic 1980, Gallardo et al. 1993), Balearic Islands (, Rodríguez y Femenías 1889, Gómez Garreta 1983, Ribera Siguán 1983, Ribera Siguán & Gómez Garreta 1985, Gallardo et al. 1993), Corsica (Boudouresque & Perret 1977, Gallardo et al. 1993), France (Feldmann 1937, Coppejans 1972, Gallardo et al. 1993, Anon. 2012), Greece (Gerloff & Geissler 1974, Haritonidis & Tsekos 1976, Tsekos & Haritonidis 1977, Athanasiadis 1987, Gallardo et al. 1993), Italy (Giaccone 1969, Cinelli et al. 1976, Gallardo et al. 1993, Gallardo et al. 1993, Cecere et al. 1996, Furnari, Cormaci & Serio 1999, Rindi, Sartoni & Cinelli 2002), Malta (Cormaci et al. 1997), Spain (Ballesteros 1981, Ballesteros & Romero 1982, Barcelo & Seoane 1982, Ramos Esplá 1985, Rodriguez Prieto & Polo Alberti 1988, Soto & Conde 1989, Gallardo et al. 1993, Flores-Moya et al. 1995), Veneto (Sfriso, A.).

Central America: México (Pacific) (Pedroche et al. 2005).

Africa: Algeria (Gallardo et al. 1993), Egypt (Aleem 1993), Morocco (Benhissoune, Boudouresque & Verlaque 2001, Benhissoune, Boudouresque & Verlaque 2001), 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, Yoshida, Nakajima & Nakata 1990, Yoshida 1998), Korea (Lee & Kang 2001, Bae 2010), Taiwan (Anon. 2012).

Key references
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.

Kim, G.H. & Klochkova, T.A. (2010). Bryopsidales. In: Algal flora of Korea. Volume 1, Number 1. Chlorophyta: Ulvophyceae: Ulotrichales, Ulvales, Cladophorales, Bryopsidales. Marine green algae. (Bae, E.H., Kim, H.-S., Kwon, C.-J., Hwang, I.-K., Kiim, G.H. & Klochkova, T.A. Eds), pp. 157-209. Incheon: National Institute of Biological Resources.

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..

Sfriso, A. (2011). Chlorophyta multicellulari e fanerogame acquatiche. Ambiente di transizione italiani e litorali adiacenti. pp. [1]-318, pls 1-94. Bologna: Arpa Emilia-Romagna.

Wynne, M.J. (2005). Two new species of Bryopsis (Ulvophyceae, Chlorophyta) from the Sultanate of Oman, with a census of currently recognized species in the genus. Contributions from the University of Michigan Herbarium 24: 229-256.

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

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=Bryopsis&Species=muscosa

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

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 1216 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.)

Kermarrec, A. (1975). La parthénogenèse chez deux espèces de Bryopsis: B. plumosa (Hudson) C. Agardh at B. muscosa Lamouroux. Bulletin de la Société Phycologique de France 20: 37-44.

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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 20 June 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:76336

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