Spongomorpha arcta (Dillwyn) Kützing
Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Subkingdom Viridaeplantae
Phylum Chlorophyta
Class Ulvophyceae
Order Ulotrichales
Family Ulotrichaceae
Genus Spongomorpha
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microscope, Spain, Galicia, Ría de Coruña, 1990. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara.
microscope, Spain, Galicia, Ría de Coruña, 1990. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara.
microscope, Spain, Galicia, Ría de Coruña, 1990. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara.
Spongomorpha arcta (Dillwyn) Kützing microscope, Spain, Galicia, Ría de Coruña, 1990
Publication details
Spongomorpha arcta (Dillwyn) Kützing 1849: 417
Original publication: Kützing, F.T. (1849). Species algarum. pp. [i]-vi, [1]-922. Lipsiae [Leipzig]: F.A. Brockhaus.
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Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Spongomorpha is Spongomorpha congregata (C.Agardh) Kützing.
Status of name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Basionym
Conferva arcta Dillwyn
Type information
Type locality: In the Sea, Bantry Bay [Co. Cork, Ireland] (Dillwyn 1809: 67). Lectotype: Ellen Hutchins; NMW (Jónsson 1991: 000).
Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), close, confined, tight (Stearn 1973).
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Cladophora arcta var. vaucheriiformis (C.Agardh) Hariot
Conferva vaucheriiformis C.Agardh 1824
Chantransia vaucheriiformis Chevalier 1836
Cladophora vaucheriiformis Kützing 1843
General environment
This is a marine species.
Detailed distribution with sources
(as Spongomorpha arcta (Dillwyn) Kützing)
Arctic: Canada (Arctic) (Taylor 1957).
Ireland: Antrim (Morton 1994), Clare (De Valéra et al. 1979), Cork (Guiry 1978), Derry (Morton 1994), Donegal (Guiry 1978), Down (Morton 1994), Galway (Pybus 1978, De Valéra et al. 1979), Waterford (Guiry 1977, Guiry 1978).
Europe: Black Sea (Gallardo et al. 1993), Britain (Burrows 1991), Faroes (Irvine 1982), Ireland (Guiry 1977, Burrows 1991, Morton 1994), Netherlands (Stegenga & Mol 1983), Portugal (Araújo et al., 2003, Araújo, Bárbara & Sousa-Pinto in press), Spain (Granja, Cremades & Barbara 1992, Bárbara & Cremades 1996, Bárbara et al., 2003).
North America: Alaska (Lindstrom 1977), Labrador (Taylor 1957), Maine (Mathieson et al. 2001), New Hampshire (Mathieson & Hehre 1986), New Jersey (Taylor 1957), Newfoundland (Taylor 1957), Quebec (Taylor 1957).
South America: Argentina (Boraso de Zaixso 2004), Chile (Taylor 1939, Ramírez & Santelices 1991).
Asia: China (Tseng 1984).
Antarctic and the subantarctic islands: Antarctica (Papenfuss 1964).
Taxonomic notes
Guiry (1997) notes a synonymy between this species and Acrosiphonia centralis.
Source of synonymy
Scagel, R.F. (1957). An annotated list of the marine algae of British Columbia and northern Washington (including keys to genera). Bulletin, National Museum of Canada 150: vi + 289.
NCBI Nucleotide Sequences
No sequences have been found on the NCBI site.
Created: 04 October 1998 by M.D. Guiry
Verified by: 25 August 2008 by M.D. 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.)
O'Donnell, J. J. & Percival, E. (1958). The polysaccharides of Acrosiphonia centralis (Spongomorpha arcta ). Proceedings of the International Seaweed Symposium 3: 75-76.
O'Donnell, J.J. & Percival, E. (1959). Structural investigation on the water-soluble polysaccharides from the green sea-weed Acrosiphonia centalis (Spongomorpha arcta). J. Chem. Soc. 1959: 2168-2178.
Pybus, C. (1978). A probable life-history of Spongomorpha arcta on the Galway coast. Irish Naturalists' Journal 19: 272-273.
Pybus, C. (1978). A probable life-history of Spongomorpha arcta on the Galway coast. Irish Naturalists' Journal 19: 272-274.
