Schottera nicaeënsis (J.V.Lamouroux ex Duby) Guiry & Hollenberg

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Subkingdom Biliphyta
Phylum Rhodophyta
Subphylum Eurhodophytina
Class Florideophyceae
Subclass Rhodymeniophycidae
Order Gigartinales
Family Phyllophoraceae
Genus Schottera

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KwaZulu-Natal; ramifying in a sponge. Tom Schils. © Tom Schils. 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.

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Schottera nicaeënsis (J.V.Lamouroux ex Duby) Guiry & Hollenberg KwaZulu-Natal; ramifying in a sponge

Publication details
Schottera nicaeënsis (J.V.Lamouroux ex Duby) Guiry & Hollenberg 1975: 153, figs 4-9, 11-15

Original publication: Guiry, M.D. & Hollenberg, G.J. (1975). Schottera gen. nov. and Schottera nicaeensis (Lamour. ex Duby) comb. nov. (=Petroglossum nicaeense (Lamour. ex Duby) Schotter) in the British Isles. British Phycological Journal 10: 149-164, 15 figs.
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Type species
This is the type species (holotype) of the genus Schottera.

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

Basionym
Halymenia nicaeënsis J.V.Lamouroux ex Duby

Type information
Type locality: Marseilles, France (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996: 319). Lectotype: STR (Guiry & Hollenberg 1975: fig. 4). Notes: See also Dixon & Irvine (1977: 230). This type locality was first recorded by Guiry & Hollenberg (1975: 153).

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Halymenia nicaeënsis J.V.Lamouroux ex Duby 1830
Rhodymenia palmetta var. nicaeënsis (Lamouroux ex Duby) J.Agardh 1842
Rhodymenia nicaeënsis (J.V.Lamouroux ex Duby) Montagne 1846
Gymnogongrus nicaeënsis (J.V.Lamouroux ex Duby) Ardissone & Straforello 1877
Phyllophora nicaeënsis (J.V.Lamouroux ex Duby) F.Schmitz 1893
Petroglossum nicaeënsis (Duby) Schotter 19523

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Phyllophora morinii Børgesen 1954

General environment
This is a Marine species.

Description
Cartilaginous, thin, bright red fronds, flattened, to 80 mm high, slender cylindrical stipe to 5 mm long arising from rhizoids. Lamina simple, or once or twice dichotomous, strap-shaped, margins slightly ruffled. Apices rounded at first, later prolonged into long slender proccesses which may become attached to substratum and produce new erect shoots.

Habitat
Epilithic, lower littoral in pools and emergent, sublittoral to 15 m (Dixon & Irvine 1977: 231). On rock in light-shaded pools, lower intertidal, southern and western coasts to Isle of Man and Northern Ireland; probably much under-recorded.

Similar species
Phyllophora crispa, Stenogramme interrupta and Rhodymenia spp.

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Gymnogongrus nicaeënsis (J.V.Lamouroux ex Duby) Ardissone & Straforello)
Europe: Spain (Miranda 1936).

(as Phyllophora nicaeënsis (J.V.Lamouroux ex Duby) F.Schmitz)
Europe: Balearic Islands (Rodríguez y Femenías 1889).

(as Phyllophora morinii Børgesen)
Africa: Mauritius (Børgesen 1954).

(as Schottera nicaeënsis (J.V.Lamouroux ex Duby) Guiry & Hollenberg)
Ireland: Antrim (Guiry & Morton 1976, Dixon & Irvine 1977, Guiry 1978, Morton 1994), Cork (Guiry & Hollenberg 1975, Guiry 1978, Cullinane & Whelan 1983), Donegal (Maggs & Guiry 1982), Down (Morton 1994), Galway (Dixon & Irvine 1977, Guiry 1978), Kerry (Cullinane & Whelan 1983, Cullinane & Whelan 1984, Whelan & Cullinane 1985), Waterford (Dixon & Irvine 1977, Guiry 1977, Guiry 1978), Wexford (Guiry, Cullinane & Whelan 1979).

Europe: Adriatic (Giaccone 1978), Balearic Islands (Ribera Siguán 1983, Ribera Siguán & Gómez Garreta 1984), Britain (Guiry & Hollenberg 1975, Dixon & Irvine 1977, Hardy & Guiry 2003), Corsica (Boudouresque & Perret 1977, Coppejans 1979), France (Guiry & Hollenberg 1975, Guiry & Hollenberg 1975, Dizerbo & Herpe 2007), Greece (Athanasiadis 1987), Ireland (Guiry & Hollenberg 1975, Dixon & Irvine 1977, Guiry 1977, Guiry 1978, Whelan & Cullinane 1985, Morton 1994), Italy (Furnari, Cormaci & Serio 1999, Rindi, Sartoni & Cinelli 2002, Serio et al 2006), Malta (Cormaci et al. 1997), Portugal (Cremades et al., 2002, Araujo et al. 2009), Spain (Ballesteros 1981, Ballesteros & Romero 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, Conde et al. 1996, Conde, Altamirano & Flores-Moya 1996, Bárbara & Cremades 1996, Veiga, Cremades & Bárbara 1998, Gorostiaga et al., 2004, Bárbara et al. 2005, de los Santos, Pérez-Lloréns & Vergara 2009, Mercado et al. 2009), Turkey (Europe) (Taskin et al. 2008 ).

Atlantic Islands: Ascension (John et al. 2004), Azores (Neto 1994).

South America: Chile (Santelices 1989, Santelices, Ramírez & Abbott 1989, Ramírez & Santelices 1991, Hoffmann & Santelices 1997).

Africa: Mauritius (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Namibia (Rull Lluch 2002, John et al. 2004), South Africa (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, De Clerck, Tronchin & Schils 2005), Tunisia (Ben Maiz, Boudouresque & Quahchi 1987).

Indian Ocean Islands: Réunion (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996).

South-west Asia: Israel (Hoffman 2004, Einav 2007), Turkey (Asia) (Taskin et al. 2008 ).

Australia and New Zealand: New South Wales (Millar & Kraft 1993, Lewis & Womersley 1994), South Australia (Lewis & Womersley 1994), Tasmania (Lewis & Womersley 1994), Victoria (Lewis & Kraft 1979, Lewis & Womersley 1994, Shepherd et al. 2009).

(as Petroglossum nicaeënsis (Duby) Schotter)
Europe: France (Feldmann 1954), Greece (Gerloff & Geissler 1974, Haritonidis & Tsekos 1976, Tsekos & Haritonidis 1977), Italy (Giaccone 1969, Feoli & Bressan 1972, Edwards et al. 1975, Cinelli et al. 1976), Portugal (Ardré 1970).

Source of synonymy
Guiry, M.D. & Hollenberg, G.J. (1975). Schottera gen. nov. and Schottera nicaeensis (Lamour. ex Duby) comb. nov. (=Petroglossum nicaeense (Lamour. ex Duby) Schotter) in the British Isles. British Phycological Journal 10: 149-164, 15 figs.

Key references
Dixon, P.S. & Irvine, L.M. (1977). Seaweeds of the British Isles. Volume 1. Rhodophyta. Part 1. Introduction, Nemaliales, Gigartinales. pp. xi + 252, 90 figs. London: British Museum (Natural History).

Lewis, J.A. & Kraft, G.T. (1979). Occurrence of a European red alga (Schottera nicaeensis) in southern Australian waters. Journal of Phycology 15: 226-230.

Lewis, J.A. & Womersley, H.B.S. (1994). Family Phyllophoraceae Nägeli 1847: 248. In: The marine benthic flora of Southern Australia. Part III A. (Womersley, H.B.S. Eds), pp. 259-270. Canberra: Australian Biological Resources Study.

Santelices, B., Ramírez, M.E. & Abbott, I.A. (1989). A new species and new records of marine algae from Chile. British Phycological Journal 24: 73-82.

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.

Silva, P.C., Basson, P.W. & Moe, R.L. (1996). Catalogue of the benthic marine algae of the Indian Ocean. University of California Publications in Botany 79: 1-1259.

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 31 March 1996 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 30 June 2009 by Wendy 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.)

Dipierro, S., Perrone, C. & Felicini, G.P. (1980). Changes in the nitrate-reducing activity of Schottera nicaeensis Guiry et Hollenberg (Rhodophyta, Phyllophoraceae) during ontogenesis (Note). Phycologia 19: 232-234, 2 figs.
Felicini, G.P. & Perrone, C. (1979). Tumour-like formations on cultured Schottera nicaeensis. Giornale Botanico Italiano 113: 395-400.
Guiry, M.D. & Hollenberg, G.J. (1975). Schottera gen. nov. and Schottera nicaeensis (Lamour. ex Duby) comb. nov. (=Petroglossum nicaeense (Lamour. ex Duby) Schotter) in the British Isles. British Phycological Journal 10: 149-164, 15 figs.
Guiry, M.D. & Morton, O. (1976). Schottera nicaeensis (Lamour. ex Duby) Guiry et Hollenberg from Co. Antrim. Irish Naturalists' Journal 18: 285-286.
Lewis, J.A. & Kraft, G.T. (1979). Occurrence of a European red alga (Schottera nicaeensis) in southern Australian waters. Journal of Phycology 15: 226-230.
Perrone, C. & Felicini, G.P. (1988). Physiological ecology of Schottera nicaeensis (Phyllophoraceae, Rhodophyta): functional significance of heterotrichy. Phycologia 27: 347-354.
Perrone, C. & Garuccio, I. (1983). Manifestations de sénescence provoquées par la licorine dans Schottera nicaeensis Guiry et Hollenberg (Phyllophoracées). Phycologia 22: 395-401, 6 figs, 5 tables.
Perrone, C. & Garuccio, I. (1984). Lycorine-induced reduction of phycobiliprotein levels in Schottera nicaeensis (Phyllophoraceae, Gigartinales). Phycologia 23: 209-212, 2 tables.
Perrone-Pesola, C. & Felicini, G.P. (1981). Polarité dans la fronde de Schottera nicaeensis (Phyllophoracées). Phycologia 20: 142-146.