Ulva compressa Linnaeus
Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Subkingdom Viridaeplantae
Phylum Chlorophycophyta
Class Ulvophyceae
Order Ulvales
Family Ulvaceae
Genus Ulva
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Black Hd., Co. Clare, Ireland; upper-shore sandy rock. 16 Mar 2006. Michael Guiry. © Michael Guiry.
Silver Strand, Co. Galway, Ireland; fisheye lens. 01 Sep 2007. Michael Guiry. © Michael Guiry.
Robin Hood's Bay, Yorkshire, England; plants at high water where freshwater is being discharged onto the shore. 02 Jul 2002. Michael Guiry. © Michael Guiry.
Spanish Point, Co. Clare, Ireland; lower intertidal mussels. 04 Aug 2004. Michael Guiry. © Michael Guiry.
Cape Perpetua Oregon, U.S.A.. 13 Jun 2003. Michael Guiry. © Michael Guiry.
Finavarra, Co. Clare, Ireland; MLWN rocks. 08 Aug 2002. Michael Guiry. © Michael Guiry.
Spiddal, Co. Galway, Ireland; pools at MHWN. 22 Mar 2002. Michael Guiry. © Michael Guiry.
Spiddal, Co. Galway, Ireland; rocks at MHWN. 18 Apr 2002. Michael Guiry. © Michael Guiry.
Rottnest Island, Western Australia.. John Huisman. © John Huisman. From: Huisman, J.M. (2000). Marine Plants of Australia. University of Western Australia Press, Nedlands, Western Australia..
Carreroe, Co. Galway, Ireland; growing in cast-up coralline algae. Michael Guiry. © Michael Guiry.
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Ulva compressa Linnaeus Carreroe, Co. Galway, Ireland; growing in cast-up coralline algae
Publication details
Ulva compressa Linnaeus 1753: 1163
Original publication: Linnaeus, C. (1753). Species plantarum, exhibentes plantas rite cognitas, ad genera
relatas, cum differentiis specificis, nominibus trivialibus, synonymis selectis, locis natalibus, secundum systema sexuale digestas. Vol. 2 pp. [i], 561-1200, [1-30, index], [i, err.]. Holmiae [Stockholm]: Impensis Laurentii Salvii.
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Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Ulva is Ulva lactuca Linnaeus.
Status of name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Infrageneric classification
Subgenus Ulva Section Enteromorpha
Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), flattened, usually laterally (Stearn 1973).
Homotypic Synonym(s)
Conferva compressa (Linnaeus) Roth 1797
Tubularia compressa (Linnaeus) Roussel 1806
Scytosiphon compressus (Linnaeus) Lyngbye 1819
Enteromorpha compressa (Linnaeus) Nees 1820
Fistularia compressa (Linnaeus) Greville 1824
Solenia compressa (Linnaeus) C.Agardh 1824
Ilea compressa (Linnaeus) Gaillon 1828
Fistularia intestinalis var. compressa (Linnaeus) J.P.Jones & Kingston 1829
Hydrosolen compressus (Linnaeus) Martius 1833
Enteronia compressa (Linnaeus) Chevallier 1836
Enteromorpha vulgaris var. compressa (Linnaeus) Edmondston 1845
Ulva enteromorpha var. compressa (Linnaeus) Le Jolis 1863
Enteromorpha intestinalis var. compressa (Linnaeus) Rosenvinge 1893
Enteromorpha intestinalis subsp. compressa (Linnaeus) M.W.R.N.de Silva & E.M.Burrows 1973
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Enteromorpha compressa var. usneoides (Bonnemaison ex J.Agardh) Bliding
Enteromorpha clathrata var. usneoides (J.Agardh) V.J.Chapman
Enteromorpha compressa f. typica Kjellman
Enteromorpha complanata Kützing 1845
Enteromorpha compressa var. complanata (Kützing) Rabenhorst 1868
Enteromorpha usneoides Bonnemaison ex J.Agardh 1883
Enteromorpha compressa f. complanata (Kützing) J.Agardh 1883
Enteromorpha chlorotica J.Agardh 1883
General environment
This is a Marine species.
Type information
Type locality: "Habitat in Europae mari & tectis maritimis" [Probably Bognor, Sussex, England] (Hayden et al. 2003: 289). Lectotype: Dillenius (1742: pl. 9: fig. 8) (epitype) OXF (Hayden et al. 2003: 289). Notes: Northern Europe (Lipkin & Silva 2002).
Detailed distribution with sources
(as Enteromorpha compressa var. usneoides (Bonnemaison ex J.Agardh) Bliding)
Europe: Adriatic (Giaccone 1978).
South America: Argentina (Boraso de Zaixso 2004).
(as Ulva compressa Linnaeus)
Ireland: Galway (Loughnane et al. 2008), Wexford (Tighe 1803).
Europe: Balearic Islands (Weyler 1854), Britain (Brodie et al. 2007), France (Loiseaux-de Goër & Noailles 2008), Ireland (Tighe 1803), Portugal (Araujo et al. 2009), Slovenia (Rindi & Battelli 2005), Spain (Roxas Clemente y Rubio 1807, Gorostiaga et al., 2004, Bárbara et al. 2005, Diaz-Tapia & Bárbara 2005, Pérez-Ruzafa et al. 2008), Turkey (Europe) (Taskin et al. 2008 
).
Atlantic Islands: Canary Islands (John et al. 2004), Cape Verde Islands (John et al. 2004), Madeira (John et al. 2004), Salvage Islands (John et al. 2004).
Central America: Baja California (Norris 2010), México (Pacific) (Pedroche et al. 2005).
Caribbean Islands: Cuba (Suárez 2005), Trinidad & Tobago (Duncan & Lee Lum 2006).
Africa: Angola (John et al. 2004), Eritrea (Ateweberhan & Prud'homme van Reine 2005), Mauritania (John et al. 2004), Namibia (John et al. 2004), Western Sahara (John et al. 2004).
South-west Asia: Israel (Hoffman 2004), Sri Lanka (Coppejans et al. 2009), Turkey (Asia) (Taskin et al. 2008 , Percot, Yalcin, Aysel, Erdugan, Durral & Guven 2009).
Asia: Japan (de Carvalho, Hayashizaki & Ogawa 2009).
Australia and New Zealand: Lord Howe Island (Kraft 2007), New Zealand (Heesch et al. 2009).
Pacific Islands: American Samoa (Skelton et al. 2004).
(as Enteromorpha compressa (Linnaeus) Nees)
Arctic: Canada (Arctic) (Taylor 1957, Lee 1980).
Ireland: Antrim (Dickie 1871, Adams 1907, McMillan & Morton 1979), Clare (Pybus 1977, De Valéra et al. 1979), Cork (Renouf 1931), Donegal (Morton 2003), Dublin (Sanders 1860), Galway (Pybus 1977), Louth (Synnott 1969), Mayo (Cotton 1912), Wexford (Cotton 1913, Norton 1970).
Europe: Adriatic (Giaccone 1978, Munda 1979, Ercegović 1980, Gallardo et al. 1993), Balearic Islands (Colmeiro, M. 1868, Rodríguez y Femenías 1889, Bellón 1921, Navarro & Bellón 1945, Seoane-Camba 1969, Gómez Garreta 1983, Ribera Siguán 1983, Ribera Siguán & Gómez Garreta 1985, Gallardo et al. 1993, Cambra Sánchez, Álvarez Cobelas & Aboal Sanjurjo 1998), Baltic Sea (Nielsen et al. 1995), Belgium (Coppejans 1995), Black Sea (Gallardo et al. 1993), Britain (Newton 1931, Hardy & Guiry 2003), Corsica (Gallardo et al. 1993), E. Greenland (Pedersen 1976), Faroes (Irvine 1982, Nielsen & Gunnarsson 2001), France (Feldmann 1937, Feldmann 1954, Ben Maiz, Boudouresque, Lauret & Riouall 1988, Gallardo et al. 1993, Coppejans 1995, Verlaque 2001, Dizerbo & Herpe 2007), Greece (Gerloff & Geissler 1974, Haritonidis & Tsekos 1976, Tsekos & Haritonidis 1977, Athanasiadis 1987, Gallardo et al. 1993), Helgoland (Bartsch & Kuhlenkamp 2000), Iceland (Caram & Jónsson 1972), Ireland (Adams 1907, Cotton 1912, Cotton 1913, Pybus 1977, Guiry 1978, De Valéra et al. 1979), Italy (Giaccone 1969, Edwards et al. 1975, Cinelli et al. 1976, Gallardo et al. 1993, Gallardo et al. 1993, Cecere et al. 1996, Furnari, Cormaci & Serio 1999, Rindi, Sartoni & Cinelli 2002), Netherlands (Stegenga & Mol 1983, Stegenga, Kaaremans & Simons 2007), Norway (Rueness 1997), Portugal (Ardré 1970), Romania (Caraus 2002), Spain (Lázaro Ibiza 1889, Sauvageau 1897, Hamel 1928, Miranda 1931, Bas 1949, Seoane-Camba 1965, Ballesteros 1981, Ballesteros & Romero 1982, Pérez-Cirera & Maldonado 1982, Barcelo & Seoane 1982, Gallardo & Pérez-Cirera 1982, Fernández & Niell 1982, Fernández, Niell & Anadón 1983, Anadón 1983, Sierra & Fernández 1984, Pérez-Ruzafa & Honrubia 1984, Gallardo et al. 1985, Alvárez Cobelas & Gallardo 1986, Aboal 1988b, Rodriguez Prieto & Polo Alberti 1988, Soto & Conde 1989, Fernández & Miyares 1989, Pérez-Ruzafa 1990, Fernández & Menéndez 1991, Granja, Cremades & Barbara 1992, Conde Poyales 1992, Gallardo et al. 1993, Flores-Moya et al. 1995, Bárbara & Cremades 1996, Rodríguez-Prieto & Polo, L. 1996, Rodriguez-Prieto et al. 1997, Veiga, Cremades & Bárbara 1998, Cambra Sánchez, Álvarez Cobelas & Aboal Sanjurjo 1998, Rodriguez-Prieto & Polo Albertí 1998, Peña & Bárbara 2002), Spitsbergen (Vinogradova 1995), Sweden (Kylin 1907, Kylin 1949), Turkey (Europe) (Güven & Öztig 1971, Güner, Aysel, Sukatar & Öztürk 1985, Cirik, Zeybeck, Aysel & Cirik 1990, Gallardo et al. 1993).
Atlantic Islands: Azores (Neto 1994), Bermuda (Taylor 1960), Canary Islands (Børgesen 1926, Gil-Rodríguez & Afonso-Carrillo 1980, Guadalupe et al. 1995, Haroun et al. 2002, Aldanondo-Aristizábal, Domínguez-Alvarez & Gil-Rodríguez 2003, Gil-Rodríguez et al. 2003), Cape Verde Islands (Prud'homme van Reine, Haroun & Kostermans 2005), Madeira (Levring 1974, Neto, Cravo & Haroun 2001, Haroun et al. 2002), Salvage Islands (Audiffred & Weisscher 1984, Parente et al. 2000).
North America: Alaska (Lindstrom 1977, Scagel et al. 1989), British Columbia (Scagel et al. 1989), California (Abbott & Hollenberg 1976, Silva 1979), Florida (Taylor 1960, Dawes 1974), Georgia (Schneider & Searles 1991), Gulf of California (Setchell & Gardner 1924, Dawson 1944), New Hampshire (Mathieson & Hehre 1986), New Jersey (Taylor 1957), North Carolina (Schneider & Searles 1991), Oregon (Hansen 1997), Quebec (Taylor 1957), South Carolina (Schneider & Searles 1991), Virginia (Humm 1979), Washington (Scagel et al. 1989).
Caribbean Islands: Barbados (Taylor 1960), Caribbean (Littler & Littler 2000), Lesser Antilles (Taylor 1960), Martinique (Rodríguez-Prieto, Michanek & Ivon 1999), Puerto Rico (Taylor 1960).
South America: Brazil (Taylor 1930, Taylor 1960, Joly 1965), Chile (Santelices 1989, Ramírez & Santelices 1991, Hoffmann & Santelices 1997), Guyana (Taylor 1960), Peru (Ramírez & Santelices 1991), Uruguay (Taylor 1939, Coll & Oliveira 1999), Venezuela (Ganesan 1990).
Africa: Algeria (Gallardo et al. 1993), Egypt (Papenfuss 1968, Aleem 1993, Gallardo et al. 1993), Eritrea (Lipkin & Silva 2002), Ethiopia (Papenfuss 1968), Kenya (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Libya (Gallardo et al. 1993), Mauritius (Børgesen 1940, Børgesen 1946, Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Morocco (Dangeard 1949, Gallardo et al. 1993, Benhissoune, Boudouresque & Verlaque 2001, Benhissoune, Boudouresque & Verlaque 2001), Mozambique (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), South Africa (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Stegenga, Bolton & Anderson 1997), Sudan (Papenfuss 1968), Tunisia (Meñez & Mathieson 1981, Ben Maiz, Boudouresque & Quahchi 1987, Gallardo et al. 1993).
Indian Ocean Islands: Andaman Islands (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Christmas Island (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Maldives (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Nicobar Islands (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Rodrigues Island (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996).
South-west Asia: Bahrain (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Bangladesh (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), India (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Sahoo et al. 2001), Iran (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Sohrabipour & Rabii 1999), Iraq (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Israel (Einav 2007), Jordan (Papenfuss 1968), Kuwait (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Levant states (Gallardo et al. 1993), Pakistan (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Saudi Arabia (Papenfuss 1968), Sri Lanka (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Yemen (Papenfuss 1968, Silva, Basson & Moe 1996).
Asia: China (Tseng 1984), Japan (Yoshida, Nakajima & Nakata 1990, Yoshida 1998, Titlyanov et al 2006), Korea (Lee & Kang 2001, Lee 2008), Taiwan (Huang 2000).
South-east Asia: Indonesia (Verheij & Prud'homme van Reine 1993, Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Malaysia (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Myanmar (Burma) (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Philippines (Silva, Meñez & Moe 1987), Vietnam (Tsutsui et al. 2005).
Australia and New Zealand: Lord Howe Island (Kraft 2000), New Zealand (Adams 1994, Nelson & Phillips 1996), Papua New Guinea (Coppejans et al. 2001), Queensland (Lewis 1987, Phillips 1997, Phillips 2002), South Australia (Womersley 1984), Tasmania (Day et al. 1995), Victoria (Day et al. 1995), Western Australia (Huisman & Walker 1990, Huisman & Borowitzka 2003).
Pacific Islands: Easter Island (Santelices & Abbott 1987), Federated States of Micronesia (Lobban & Tsuda 2003), Fiji (N'Yeurt, South & Keats 1996, South & Skelton 2003), Hawaiian Islands (Abbott & Huisman, 2004, Sherwood 2004), Samoan Archipelago (Skelton & South 1999).
Antarctic and the subantarctic islands: Antarctica (Papenfuss 1964, Wiencke & Clayton 2002), South Shetland Islands (Wiencke & Clayton 2002).
(as Enteromorpha complanata Kützing)
Europe: Sweden (Kylin 1949).
(as Enteromorpha compressa var. complanata (Kützing) Rabenhorst)
Europe: Britain (Newton 1931).
(as Enteromorpha usneoides Bonnemaison ex J.Agardh)
Europe: Britain (Newton 1931), France (Dizerbo & Herpe 2007), Sweden (Kylin 1907).
(as Enteromorpha compressa f. complanata (Kützing) J.Agardh)
Europe: Britain (Newton 1931).
(as Enteromorpha intestinalis var. compressa (Linnaeus) Rosenvinge)
Europe: Romania (Caraus 2002).
(as Enteromorpha intestinalis subsp. compressa (Linnaeus) M.W.R.N.de Silva & E.M.Burrows)
Ireland: Waterford (Guiry 1977).
Europe: Ireland (Guiry 1977).
North America: Maine (Mathieson et al. 2001).
Taxonomic notes
John et al. (2004) cite E. intestinalis (L.) Nees, subsp. compressa De Silva & Burrows as a synonym of this species.
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.
Dawes, C.J. & Mathieson, A.C. (2008). The seaweeds of Florida. pp. [i]- viii, [1]-591, [592], pls I-LI. Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida.
Hayden, H.S., Blomster, J., Maggs, C.A., Silva, P.C., Stanhope, M.J. & Waaland, J.R. (2003). Linnaeus was right all along: Ulva and Enteromorpha are not distinct genera. European Journal of Phycology 38: 277-294.
Kraft, G.T. (2007). Algae of Australia. Marine benthic algae of Lord Howe Island and the southern Great Barrier Reef, 1. Green algae. pp. [i-iv], v-vi, 1-347, 110 text-figs; 11 pls. Canberra & Melbourne: Australian Biological Resources Study & CSIRO Publishing.
Loiseaux-de Goër, S. & Noailles, M.-C. (2008). Algues de Roscoff. pp. [1]-215, col. figs. Roscoff: Editions de la Station Biologique de Roscoff.
Norris, J.N. (2010). Marine algae of the Northern Gulf of California: Chlorophyta and Phaeophyceae. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 94: i-x, 1-276.
Pedroche, F.F., Silva, P.C., Aguilar-Rosas, L.E., Dreckmann, K.M. & Aguilar-Rosas, R. (2005). Catálogo de las algas marinas bentónicas del Pacífico de México. I. Chlorophycota. pp. i-viii, 17-146. Ensenada, México: Universidad Autónoma de Baja California.
Tan, I.H., Blomster, J., Hansen, G., Leskinen, E., Maggs, C.A., Mann, A., Sluiman, H.J. & Stanhope, M.J. (1999). Molecular phylogenetic evidence for a reversible morphogenetic switch controlling the gross morphology of two common genera of green seaweeds, Ulva and Enteromorpha. Molecular Biology and Evolution 16: 1011-1018.
SAG Cultures
No records have been found on the SAG site.
NCBI Nucleotide Sequences
As of 2 June 2009, nucleotide sequence data are available at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Genbank for 89 samples identified as Ulva compressa.
Created: 19 October 1998 by M.D. Guiry
Verified by: 16 June 2010 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.)
Kagami, Y., Fujishita, M., Matsuyama-Serisawa, K., Yamamoto, M., Kuwano, K., Saga, N. & Kawano, S. (2005). DNA content of Ulva compressa (Ulvales, Chlorophyta) nuclei determined with laser scanning cytometry. Phycological Research 53(1): 77-83.
Kagami, Y., Mogi, Y., Arai, T., Yamamoto, M., Kuwano, K. & Kawano, S. (2008). Sexuality and uniparental inheritance of chloroplast DNA in the isogamous green alga Ulva compressa (Ulvophyceae). Journal of Phycology 44: 691-702.
Lahaye, M. & Jegou, D. (1993). Chemical and physical-chemical characteristics of dietary fibres from Ulva lactuca (L.) Thuret and Enteromorpha compressa (L.) Grev.. Journal of Applied Phycology 5: 195-200.
Mogi, Y., Kagami, Y., Kuwano, K., Miyamura, S., Nagumo, T. & Kawano, S. (2008). Asymmetry of eyespot and mating structure position in Ulva compressa (Ulvales, Chlorophyta) revealed by a new field emission scanning electron microscopy method. Journal of Phycology 44: 1290-1299.
Percival, E. (1964). Polysaccharides of the green seaweeds, Ulva lactuca and Enteromorpha compressa. Proceedings of the International Seaweed Symposium 4: 360-365.
