Rhodymenia palmata (Linnaeus) Greville

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Rhodophyta
Subphylum Eurhodophytina
Class Florideophyceae
Subclass Rhodymeniophycidae
Order Rhodymeniales
Family Rhodymeniaceae
Genus Rhodymenia

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Collected near Roscoff (F), December 1984. 29 Dec 2011. Elmar Wosnitza. © Christine Wosnitza.

Publication details
Rhodymenia palmata (Linnaeus) Greville 1830: xlix, 93 (Rhodomenia)

Original publication: Greville, R.K. (1830). Algae britannicae, or descriptions of the marine and other inarticulated plants of the British islands, belonging to the order Algae; with plates illustrative of the genera. pp. [i*-iii*], [i]-lxxxviii, [1]-218, pl. 1-19. Edinburgh & London: McLachlan & Stewart; Baldwin & Cradock.
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Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Rhodymenia is Rhodymenia palmetta (Stackhouse) Greville.

Status of name
This name is currently regarded as a taxonomic synonym of Palmaria palmata (Linnaeus) Weber & Mohr

Basionym
Fucus palmatus Linnaeus

Type information
Type locality: "Ad oras atlantica" (Linnaeus 1753: 1162). Lectotype: L 910.184.2889 (Irvine & Guiry 1983: 68). Notes: Linnaeus's description was taken from Van Royen (1740) and a lectotype has been selected from his herbarium (which Linnaeus examined).

Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), lobed or divided in the manner of an outspread hand with the sinuses between the lobes pointing to the place of attachment (Stearn 1973).

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

General environment
This is a marine species.

Common names

(as Rhodymenia palmata (Linnaeus) Greville)
English: Sea grass (Brennan 1950), American dulse (Kirby 1953), Dillisc, Sheep's weed (Duddington 1966), Sea devil, Horse seaweed (Ohmi 1968), Dulse (Anonymous 1978), Dillisk (Rhoads & Zunic 1978).

French: Goémon à vaches (Boisvert 1984).

Gaeilge: Creannach (Brennan 1950), Duileasc, Creathnach (Anonymous 1978).

Usage notes
Source of B vitamins (Kanazawa et al. 1966). - (29 May 2007) - Wendy Guiry

Distribution by country

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Rhodymenia palmata (Linnaeus) Greville)
Arctic: Canada (Arctic) (Lee 1980).

Ireland: Antrim (Drummond 1837, Dickie 1871, McMillan & Morton 1979), Cork (Cullinane 1971, Cullinane, McCarthy & Fletcher 1975), Down (Morton 1974), Limerick (Cullinane 1969), Louth (Synnott 1969), Mayo (Cotton 1912), Wexford (Cotton 1913, Parkes & Scannell 1969, Norton 1970).

Europe: Britain (Newton 1931), France (Feldmann 1954), Ireland (Cotton 1912, Cullinane 1969, Cullinane 1971), Portugal (Ardré 1970), Spain (Miranda 1931), Sweden (Kylin 1907, Kylin 1944).

Atlantic Islands: Canary Islands (Woelkerling et al. 1998 ), Iceland (Caram & Jónsson 1972).

North America: Alaska (Lindstrom 1977).

South America: Brazil (Taylor 1930).

Asia: Japan (Segawa 1981).

Source of synonymy
Guiry, M.D. (1974). A preliminary consideration of the taxonomic position of Palmaria palmata (Linnaeus) Stackhouse = Rhodymenia palmata (Linnaeus) Greville. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 54: 509-528.

Key references
Kanazawa, A., Saito, A. & Idler, D.R. (1966). Vitamins B in dulse (Rhodymenia palmata). J. Fish. Res. Bd. Canada 23(6): 915, 916, 1 table.

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

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=Rhodymenia&Species=palmata

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 27 September 1998 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 26 May 2010 by M.D. Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 5115 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.)

Andrew, P.W., Rogers, L.J., Haslett, B.G. & Boulter, D. (1981). Partial structure and propeties of the ferredoxin from Rhodymenia palmata. Phytochemistry 20: 579-583.
Barton, E.S. (1891). On the occurrence of galls in Rhodymenia palmata Grev. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign 29: 65-68.
Delf, E.M. & Grubb, V.M. (1924). The spermatia of Rhodymenia palmata Ag.. An. Bot. 38: 327-335.
Edelstein, T. (1972). Halosacciocolax lundii, sp. nov., a new red alga parasitic on Rhodymenia palmata (L.) Grev.. British Phycological Journal 7: 249-253.
Ffrench, R.A. (1974). Rhodymenia palmata. An appraisal of the dulse industry. pp. 1-49. Ottawa: National Research Council of Canada.
Gopalakrishnan, P. (1974). On the occurrence of Hormophysa triquetra (L.) Kützing and Rhodymenia palmata Grev. on the west coast of India. Phykos 13(1): 6-9, Figs. 1a, 1b.
Grubb, V.M. (1923). Preliminary note on the reproduction of Rhodymenia palmata, Ag.. Annals of Botany 37: 151-152.
Guiry, M.D. (1974). A preliminary consideration of the taxonomic position of Palmaria palmata (Linnaeus) Stackhouse = Rhodymenia palmata (Linnaeus) Greville. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 54: 509-528.
Guiry, M.D. (1976 '1975'). An assessment of Palmaria palmata forma mollis (S. et G.) comb. nov. (= Rhodymenia palmata forma mollis S. et G.) in the eastern North Pacific. Syesis 8: 245-261.
Harding, J.P. (1954). The copepod Thalestris rhodymeniae (Brady) and its nauoilus, parasitic in the seaweed Rhodymenia palmata (L.) Grev.. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 124: 153-161.
Kanazawa, A., Saito, A. & Idler, D.R. (1966). Vitamins B in dulse (Rhodymenia palmata). J. Fish. Res. Bd. Canada 23(6): 915, 916, 1 table.
Killian, C. (1926). Le développement morphologique et anatomique du Rhodymenia palmata. Ann Des Sc Nat Bot Ser 8 10: 189-211.
Magne, F. (1959). Sur le cycle nucléaire du "Rhodymenia palmata" (L.) J. Agardh. Soc Phycol France Bull No 5: 12-14.
Magne, F. (1959). Sur le cycle nucléare du "Rhodymenia Palmata" (L.) J. Agardh. Soc. Phycol. de France, Bull. 5: .
Morgan, K.C. & Simpson, F.J. (1981). Cultivation of Palmaria (Rhodymenia) palmata: effect of high concentrations of nitrate and ammonium on growth and nitrogen uptake. Aquatic Botany 11: 167-171.
Pueschel, C.M. (1977). Unusual lipid bodies in the red alga Palmaria palmata (= Rhodymenia palmata). J. Ultrastruc. Res. 60: 328-334.
Schlichting, H.E., Jr & Purdom, M.E. (1969). Rhodymenia palmata periphyton; protein and amino acids. Proceedings of the International Seaweed Symposium 6: 589-594.
van der Meer, J.P. (1976). A contribution towards elucidating the life history of Palmaria palmata (=Rhodymenia palmata). Canadian Journal of Botany 54: 2903-2906.
Westbrook, M.A. (1928). Contributions to the cytology of tetrasporic plants of Rhodymenia palmata (L.), Grev., and some other Florideae. Annals of Botany 62: 149-172.
Yabu, H. (1972). Nuclear division in tetrasporophytes of Rhodymenia palmata (L.) Grev.. Proceedings of the International Seaweed Symposium 7: 205-207.
Yabu, H. (1976). A report on the cytology of Rhodymenia palmata, Rh. pertusa and Halosaccion saccatum (Rhodophyta). Bull. Fac. Fish., Hokkaido Univ. 27: 51-62.
Zinova, A.D. (1950). Rhodymenia palmata (L.) Grev.. Bot. Materials, Section Cryptogamic Plants 6: .

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Citing AlgaeBase
Cite this record as:
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: No taxonomy record found for this level.