Acrochaete wittrockii (Wille) R.Nielsen

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

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Publication details
Acrochaete wittrockii (Wille) R.Nielsen 1983: 692

Original publication: Nielsen, R. (1983). Culture studies of Acrochaete leptochaete comb. nov. and A. wittrockii comb. nov. (Chaetophoraceae, Chlorophyceae). Nordic Journal of Botany 3: 689-694, 31 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 wittrockii (Wille) R.Nielsen, C.J.O'Kelly & B.Wysor

Basionym
Entocladia wittrockii Wille

Type information
Type locality: near Oslo, Norway (Wille 1880: 1). Lectotype: Original illustration (Wille 1880: pl. I) "as the existence of any original material is doubtful (Per Sunding, personal communication (O))" (Brodie, Maggs & John 2007: 117) (epitype) (Brodie et al. 2007: 117). Notes: "Lectotype: Original illustration by Wille (1880, pl. 1) selected by Nielsen in Brodie et al. (2007)" (Nielsen et al. 2013: 53)?

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

General environment
This is a Marine species.

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Acrochaete wittrockii (Wille) R.Nielsen)
Europe: Baltic Sea (Nielsen et al. 1995), Britain (Hardy & Guiry 2003, Brodie et al. 2007), Faroe Islands (Nielsen & Gunnarsson 2001), France (Anon. 2012), Helgoland (Bartsch & Kuhlenkamp 2000), Ireland (Guiry 2012), Norway (Rueness 1997).

North America: Maine (Mathieson et al. 2001).

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

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
Brodie, J., Maggs, C.A. & John, D.M. (2007). Green seaweeds of Britain and Ireland. pp. [i-v], vi-xii, 1-242, 101 figs. London: British Phycological Society.

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.

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

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=wittrockii

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 04 October 1998 by M.D. Guiry

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

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 818 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.)

Nielsen, R. (1983). Culture studies of Acrochaete leptochaete comb. nov. and A. wittrockii comb. nov. (Chaetophoraceae, Chlorophyceae). Nordic Journal of Botany 3: 689-694, 31 figs.

Linking to this page: http://www.algaebase.org/search/species/detail/?species_id=12504

Citing AlgaeBase
Cite this record as:
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 19 June 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:70947