Dasycladus vermicularis (Scopoli) Krasser

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Chlorophyta
Class Ulvophyceae
Order Dasycladales
Family Dasycladaceae
Genus Dasycladus

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

Madeira. Peter Wirtz. © Peter Wirtz (peterwirtz2004@yahoo.com ).

Upper part of a young cell. Photo-Atlas of living Dasycladales. Sigrid Berger. © Sigrid Berger (sberger@spup.de).

Dasycladus vermicularis (Scopoli) Krasser Selce, northern Croatia

Publication details
Dasycladus vermicularis (Scopoli) Krasser in Beck & Zahlbruckner 1898: 459, fig. 8

Original publication: Beck, G. von & Zahlbruckner, A. (1898). Schedae ad "Kryptogamas exsiccatas" editae a Museo Palatino Vindobonensi, Centuria IV. Annalen des Kaiserlich-Königlichen Naturhistorischen Hofmuseums 13: 443-472, 2 figs.
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Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Dasycladus is Dasycladus clavaeformis (Roth) C.Agardh.

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

Basionym
Spongia vermicularis Scopoli

Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), worm-shaped, almost cylindrical and bent in places, marked with irregular waves or bent lines (Stearn 1973).

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Spongia vermicularis Scopoli 1772

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Conferva claviformis Roth 1806
Fucus vermicularis Bertoloni 1819
Dasycladus clavaeformis (Roth) C.Agardh 1828
Codium claviforme (Roth) Delle Chiaje 1829
Myrsidium bertolonii Bory de Saint-Vincent 1832
Dasycladus cylindricus Meneghini ex Kützing 1849

General environment
This is a Marine species.

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Dasycladus clavaeformis (Roth) C.Agardh)
Europe: Adriatic (Ercegovic 1980), Balearic Islands (Rodríguez y Femenías 1889), Greece (Diannelidis 1953, Diapoulis, Haritonidis & Koussouris 1986), Turkey (Europe) (Güven & Öztig 1971).

Africa: Tunisia (Meñez & Mathieson 1981).

South-west Asia: Israel (Nemlich & Danin 1964).

(as Dasycladus vermicularis (Scopoli) Krasser)
Europe: Adriatic (Giaccone 1978, Munda 1979, Gallardo et al. 1993), Balearic Islands (Dao 1957, Gómez Garreta 1983, Ribera Siguán 1983, Ribera Siguán & Gómez Garreta 1985, Gallardo et al. 1993, Ribera, Coloreu, Rodriguez Prieto & Ballesteros 1997), Corsica (Boudouresque & Perret 1977, Gallardo et al. 1993, Rodríguez Prieto, Boudouresque & Marcot-Coqueugniot 1993, Sales & Ballesteros 2011), France (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, Feoli & Bressan 1972, 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 1981, Ballesteros & Romero 1982, Barcelo & Seoane 1982, Pérez-Ruzafa & Honrubia 1984, Gallardo et al. 1985, Soto & Conde 1989, Pérez-Ruzafa et al. 1991, Gallardo et al. 1993, Flores-Moya et al. 1995, Pena Martín et al. 2003, Pérez-Ruzafa et al. 2008), Turkey (Europe) (Güner, Aysel, Sukatar & Öztürk 1985, Cirik, Zeybeck, Aysel & Cirik 1990, Gallardo et al. 1993, Taskin et al. 2008 ), Veneto (Sfriso, A.).

Atlantic Islands: Bermuda (Taylor 1960), Canary Islands (, Gil-Rodríguez & Afonso-Carrillo 1980, Viera-Rodriguez et al. 1987, Guadalupe et al. 1995, Haroun et al. 2002, Aldanondo-Aristizábal, Domínguez-Alvarez & Gil-Rodríguez 2003, Gil-Rodríguez et al. 2003, John et al. 2004, Anon 2011), Madeira (Levring 1974, Neto, Cravo & Haroun 2001, Haroun et al. 2002, John et al. 2004), Salvage Islands (Audiffred & Weisscher 1984, Parente et al. 2000, John et al. 2004).

North America: Florida (Taylor 1928, Taylor 1960, Ross et al 2005, Ross et al.).

Central America: Belize (Littler & Littler 1997).

Caribbean Islands: Bahamas (Taylor 1960, Taylor 1969, Ross et al 2005, Ross et al.), Caicos Islands (Taylor 1960), Caribbean (Littler & Littler 2000), Cuba (Taylor 1960, Suárez 2005), Hispaniola (Taylor 1960), Jamaica (Taylor 1960).

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

South America: Brazil (Taylor 1930, Taylor 1960, Oliveira Filho 1977, Moura 2010).

Africa: Algeria (Gallardo et al. 1993), Egypt (Aleem 1993, Gallardo et al. 1993), Libya (Gallardo et al. 1993), Morocco (Benhissoune, Boudouresque & Verlaque 2001), Tunisia (Ben Maiz, Boudouresque & Quahchi 1987, Gallardo et al. 1993).

South-west Asia: Israel (Einav 2007), Levant states (Gallardo et al. 1993), Turkey (Asia) (Taskin et al. 2008 ).

Asia: Japan (Yoshida 1998).

South-east Asia: Philippines (Silva, Meñez & Moe 1987).

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.

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.

UTEX Cultures
UTEX Culture LB 2685 Dasycladus vermicularis
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SAG Cultures
SAG Cultures may be viewed at http://sagdb.uni-goettingen.de/showstrains.php?genus=Dasycladus&species=vermicularis

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=Dasycladus&Species=vermicularis

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 16 September 1997 by M.D. Guiry

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

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References
(Please note: only references with the binomials in the title are included. The information is from the Literature database.)

Cinelli, F. (1979). Acetabularia acetabulum (L.) Silva, Acetabularia parvula Solms-Laubach and Dasycladus vermicularis (Scopoli) Krasser (Chlorophyta, Dasycladales): ecology and distribution in the Mediterranean Sea.. In: Developmental Biology of Acetabularia. (Bonotto, S., Kefeli, V. & Puiseux-Dao, S. Eds), pp. 3-14. Amsterdam: Elsevier North Holland Biomedical Press.
Pérez-Rodriguez, E., Aguilera, J. & Figueroa, F.L. (2003). Tissular localization of coumarins in the green alga Dasycladus vermicularis (Scopoli) Krasser. A photoprotective role?. J. Experimental Botany 384: 1-8.
Pérez-Rodríguez, E., Gómez, I., Karsten, U. & Figueroa, F.L. (1998). Effects of UV radiation on photosynthesis and excretion of UV-absorbing compounds of Dasycladus vermicularis (Dasycladales, Chlorophyta) from southern Spain. Phycologia 37: 379-387, 7 figs, 2 tables.
Ross, C., Küpper, F.C., Vreeland, V., Waite, J.H. & Jacobs, R.S. (2005). Evidence of a latent oxidative burst in relation to wound repair in the giant unicellular chlorophyte Dasycladus vermicularis. Journal of Phycology 41: 531-541.
Ross, C., Vreeland, V., Waite, J.H. & Jacobs, R.S. 2005 (2005). Rapid assembly of a wound plug: stage one of a two-stage wound repair mechanism in the giant unicellular chlorophyte Dasycladus vermicularis (Chlorophyceae). Journal of Phycology 41: 46-54.
Torres, J., Rivera, A., Clark, G. & Roux, S.J. (2008). Participation of extracellular nucleotides in the wound response of Dasycladus vermicularis and Acetabularia acetabulum. Journal of Phycology 44: 1504-1511.

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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 24 May 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:76331