Sphaerococcus coronopifolius Stackhouse

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

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France, Mediterranean, Marseille, subtidal (3 m), 2011. 27 Oct 2011. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

Finavarra, Co. Clare, Ireland. 14 Jun 2011. M.D. Guiry. © M.D. Guiry (mike.guiry@nuigalway.ie).

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

Spain, North of Galicia, 2009, TS. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

Spain, North of Galicia, 2009, TS. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

Spain, North of Galicia, 2009, TS. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

Spain, North of Galicia, 2009; surface view. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

microscope, TS thallius showing central axial cel, small medullary cavity, some medullary filaments, colourless medullary cells, and coloured cortical cells; Spain, Galicia, Ría de Coruña, 2007. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

microscope, TS thallius showing central axial cel, small medullary cavity, some medullary filaments, colourless medullary cells, and coloured cortical cells; Spain, Galicia, Ría de Coruña, 2007. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

microscope, Spain, Galicia, A Coruña, Portiño, 2004; cystocarps. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

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Sphaerococcus coronopifolius Stackhouse Finavarra, Co. Clare, Ireland; drift plant

Publication details
Sphaerococcus coronopifolius Stackhouse 1797: xxiv

Original publication: Stackhouse, J. (1797). Nereis britannica; continens species omnes fucorum in insulis britannicis crescentium: descriptione latine et anglico, necnon iconibus ad vivum depictis... Fasc. 2. pp. ix-xxiv, 31-70, pls IX-XIII. Bathoniae [Bath] & Londini [London]: S. Hazard; J. White.
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Type species
This is the type species (lectotype) of the genus Sphaerococcus.

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

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Rhynchococcus coronopifolius (Stackhouse) Kützing 1843

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Fucus coronopifolius Goodenough & Woodward 1797
Coronopifolia cartilaginea Stackhouse 1809
Haematocelis fissurata P.L.Crouan & H.M.Crouan 1867
Coronopifolia coronopifolia Le Jolis 1896
Coronopifolia coronopifolium (Goodenough & Woodward) Kuntze 1898
Ethelia fissurata (P.L.Crouan & H.M.Crouan) Denizot 1968

General environment
This is a Marine species.

Common names

(as Sphaerococcus coronopifolius Stackhouse)
English: Berry Wart Cress (Bunker et al. 2010).

Description
Narrow, compressed, two-edged, cartilaginous, scarlet fronds, main axes dark brownish-red, to 300 mm long. Branching abundant, distichous, subdichotomous or alternate, terminal branchlets acute, fringed with short marginal proliferations. Tetrasporophyte is Haematocelis fissurata, a thick crust with oily fissures, with which it is sometimes found.

Habitat
On rock, subtidal to ?? m., southern and western shores, frequent. Decays slowly, and thus not uncommon in drift.

Type information
Type locality: Cornwall, England (Stackhouse 1797: xxiv). Holotype: BM-SL

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Sphaerococcus coronopifolius Stackhouse)
Ireland: Antrim (Guiry 1978, Morton 1994), Clare (Dixon & Irvine 1977, Guiry 1978, De Valéra et al. 1979), Cork (Guiry 1978), Donegal (McMillan & Morton 1979, Morton 2003), Down (Guiry 1978, Morton 1994), Dublin (Sanders 1860, Guiry 1978), Galway (Guiry 1978, Pueschel & Saunders 2009), Kerry (Guiry 1978), Mayo (Cotton 1912, Guiry 1978).

Europe: Adriatic (Giaccone 1978), Balearic Islands (, Rodríguez y Femenías 1889, Bellón 1921, De Toni 1924, Sjöstedt 1926, Navarro & Bellón 1945, Ribera Siguán 1983, Ribera Siguán & Gómez Garreta 1984), Britain (Newton 1931, Dixon & Irvine 1977, Hardy & Guiry 2003), Corsica (Boudouresque & Perret 1977, Coppejans 1979, Demoulin, Janssen & Licot 1980, Rodríguez Prieto, Boudouresque & Marcot-Coqueugniot 1993), France (Feldmann 1954, Coppejans 1972, Valenzuela Miranda 2005, Dizerbo & Herpe 2007, Loiseaux-de Goër & Noailles 2008, Anon. 2012), Greece (Gerloff & Geissler 1974, Haritonidis & Tsekos 1976, Athanasiadis 1987), Ireland (Cotton 1912, Newton 1931, Guiry 1978, De Valéra et al. 1979, Morton 1994, Pueschel & Saunders 2009, Guiry 2012), Italy (Giaccone 1969, Feoli & Bressan 1972, Edwards et al. 1975, Cinelli et al. 1976, Cecere et al. 1996, Furnari, Cormaci & Serio 1999, Rindi, Sartoni & Cinelli 2002, Serio et al 2006), Malta (Price 1970, Cormaci et al. 1997), Norway (Rueness 1997), Portugal (Ardré 1970, Araujo et al. 2009, Lopes et al. 2011, Bárbara et al. 2012), Scandinavia (Athanasiadis 1996), Spain (Lázaro Ibiza 1889, Sauvageau 1897, Seoane-Camba 1965, Ballesteros 1981, Barcelo & Seoane 1982, Ballesteros & Romero 1982, Gallardo & Pérez-Cirera 1982, Boisset & Barceló 1984, Pérez-Ruzafa & Honrubia 1984, Gallardo et al. 1985, Rodriguez Prieto & Polo Alberti 1988, Soto & Conde 1989, Pérez-Ruzafa et al. 1991, Granja, Cremades & Barbara 1992, Bárbara, Cremades & Pérez-Cirera 1995, Conde et al. 1996, Bárbara & Cremades 1996, Veiga, Cremades & Bárbara 1998, Gorostiaga et al., 2004, Bárbara et al. 2005, Martínez-Gil et al. 2007, Peña & Bárbara 2008, Cires Rodriguez & Cuesta Moliner 2010), Turkey (Europe) (Güven & Öztig 1971, Taskin et al. 2008 ).

Atlantic Islands: Azores (Neto 1994, Tittley & Neto 1994), Canary Islands (Børgesen 1929, Gil-Rodríguez & Afonso-Carrillo 1980, Woelkerling et al. 1998, Haroun et al. 2002, Gil-Rodríguez et al. 2003, John et al. 2004, Anon 2011), Madeira (Levring 1974, Neto, Cravo & Haroun 2001, John et al. 2004).

Africa: Egypt (Aleem 1993), Morocco (Dangeard 1949), Tunisia (Meñez & Mathieson 1981, Ben Maiz, Boudouresque & Quahchi 1987).

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

(as Haematocelis fissurata P.L.Crouan & H.M.Crouan)
Europe: France (Dizerbo & Herpe 2007), Spain (López Varela 2000, Bárbara 2002, Peña & Bárbara 2008).

(as Ethelia fissurata (P.L.Crouan & H.M.Crouan) Denizot)
Europe: Balearic Islands (Cremades 1989), France (Augier, Boudouresque & Laborel 1971), Spain (Ballesteros, Perera & Puchades 1986, Ballesteros 1989).

Taxonomic notes
See Maggs & Guiry (1982) for an account of the life history.

Nomenclatural notes
New name: Fucus coronopifolius Goodenough & Woodward, the intended basionym, is a later homonym of Fucus coronopifolius Zoega, 1772. - (20 Jan 2011) - M.D. Guiry

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.

Cremades, J. (1989). Ethelia fissurata (Crouan frat.) Denizot y Chaetomorpha pachynema (Mont.) Mont. in Kütz. en las Islas Baleares. An. Jard. bot. Madr. 46-1: 341-344.

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).

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.

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

Maggs, C.A. & Guiry, M.D. (1982). The life history of Haematocelis fissurata Crouan frat. (Rhodophyta: Sphaerococcaceae). British Phycological Journal 17: 235.

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..

Serio, D., Alongi, G., Catra, M., Cormaci, M. & Furnari, G. (2006). Changes in the benthic algal flora of Linosa Island (Straits of Sicily, Mediterranean Sea). Botanica Marina 49: 135-144.

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

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=Sphaerococcus&Species=coronopifolius

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 31 March 1996 by M.D. Guiry

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

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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:77393