Acrochaete viridis (Reinke) R.Nielsen

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Chlorophyta
Class Ulvophyceae
Order Ulvales
Family Ulvellaceae
Genus Acrochaete

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Publication details
Acrochaete viridis (Reinke) R.Nielsen 1979: 442

Original publication: Nielsen, R. (1979). Culture studies on the type species of Acrochaete, Bolbocoleon and Entocladia (Chaetophoraceae, Chlorophyceae). Botaniska Notiser 132: 441-449, 3 figs.

Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Acrochaete is Acrochaete repens Pringsheim.

Status of name
This name is currently regarded as a taxonomic synonym of Ulvella viridis (Reinke) R.Nielsen, C.J.O'Kelly & B.Wysor

Basionym
Entocladia viridis Reinke

Type information
Type locality: Napoli, Italy (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996: 724). Type: on Derbesia [ = Pedobesia] lamourouxii. KIEL (Womersley 1984: 133). Notes: "Type material could not be located, so, for the present, the species must be typified by the original figures of Reinke 1879" (O'’Kelly & Yarish (1981: 33). The name has been lectotypified by the original illustration (Reinke 1879, pl. VI: fig. 6, although the authors cited pl. "17") by Brodie, Maggs & John 2007: 117). However, it was already lectotypified by Burrows (1991: 113): original illustration (Reinke, 1879, fig. 6). [See also Nielsen et al. (2013: 53)]. Epitype designated (by Nielsen et al. 2013: 53): C: Cat 2456 (dried material of isolate RN 275478).

Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), green (Stearn 1973).

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Endoderma minuta Möbius 1889

General environment
This is a Marine species.

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Endoderma minuta Möbius)
South America: Brazil (Taylor 1930).

(as Acrochaete viridis (Reinke) R.Nielsen)
Europe: Baltic Sea (Nielsen et al. 1995), Britain (Hardy & Guiry 2003), Faroe Islands (Nielsen & Gunnarsson 2001), France (Anon. 2012), Greece (Athanasiadis 1987, Tsirika & Haritonidis 2005), Ireland (Guiry 2012), Netherlands (Stegenga & Mol 1983), Norway (Rueness 1997), Romania (Caraus 2002, Caraus 2012), Spain (Rodríguez-Prieto & Polo, L. 1996, Rodriguez-Prieto & Polo Albertí 1998), Veneto (Sfriso, A.).

Atlantic Islands: Azores (Neto 1994, Tittley & Neto 1994), Canary Islands (John et al. 2004), Cape Verde Islands (John et al. 2004, Prud'homme van Reine, Haroun & Kostermans 2005), Madeira (John et al. 2004), Salvage Islands (John et al. 2004), St Helena (John et al. 2004).

North America: California (Abbott & Hollenberg 1976, Miller 2012), Massachusetts (O?Kelly, Bellows & Wysor 2004), Oregon (Hansen 1997).

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

South America: Brazil (Villaca et al. 2010, Moura 2010), Galápagos Islands (Ruiz & Ziemmeck 2011), Venezuela (Ganesan 1990).

Africa: Angola (John et al. 2004), Ghana (John et al. 2004), Mauritania (John et al. 2004), Namibia (John et al. 2004), Sierra Leone (John et al. 2004), Tunisia (Ben Maiz, Boudouresque & Quahchi 1987).

South-west Asia: Abu Dhabi (John 2005).

Asia: China (Titlyanov et al. 2011), Kamchatka (Selivanova & Zhigadlova 2009).

Pacific Islands: Fiji (N'Yeurt, South & Keats 1996).

Taxonomic notes
According to Burrows (1991) this species is a synonym of Entocladia viridis Reinke. John et al. (2004) cite Endoderma viride (Reinke) R. Nielsen as a synonym of this species.

Source of synonymy
Nielsen, R., Petersen, G., Seberg, O., Daugbjerg, N., O'Kelly, C.J. & Wysor, B. (2013). Revision of the genus Ulvella (Ulvellaceae, Ulvophyceae) based on morphology and tufA gene sequences of species in culture, with Acrochaete and Pringsheimiella placed in synonymy. Phycologia 52(1): 37-56.

Key references
Burova, O.V., Tsarenko, P.M., Kovalenko, O.V., Mikhailyuk, T.I., Petlovany, O.A., Lilitska, G.G. & Bilous, O.P. (2011). Ulvophyceae. In: Algae of Ukraine: diversity, nomenclature, taxonomy, ecology and geography. Volume 3: Chlorophyta. (Tsarenko, P.M., Wasser, S.P. & Nevo, E. Eds), pp. 20-61. Ruggell: A.R.A. Gantner Verlag K.-G.

Rinkel, B.E., Hayes, P., Gueidan, C. & Brodie, J. (2012). A molecular phylogeny of Acrochaete and other endophytic green algae (Ulvales, Chlorophyta). Journal of Phycology 48(4): 1020-1027.

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.

Titlyanova, T.V., Titlyanov, E.A., Xia, B. & Bartsch, I. (2012). New records of benthic marine green algae (Chlorophyta) for the island of Hainan (China). Nova Hedwigia 94: 441-470.

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

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=Acrochaete&Species=viridis

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 03 October 1998 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 14 March 2013 by M.D. Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 1437 times since it was created.

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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 18 May 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:90966