Ulva intestinalis Linnaeus
Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Subkingdom Viridaeplantae
Phylum Chlorophycophyta
Class Ulvophyceae
Order Ulvales
Family Ulvaceae
Genus Ulva
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Spiddal, Co. Galway, Ireland; plants in extreme high-shore pools; polaroid filter. 24 Sep 2006. Michael Guiry. © Michael Guiry.
Sotogawa-cho, Choshi, Chiba Prefecture, Japan. Courtesy Chiba University.
Sotogawa-cho, Choshi, Chiba Prefecture, Japan. Courtesy Chiba University.
Spiddal, Co. Galway, Ireland; upper-shore pool; plants to about 60 mm long. 26 Mar 2005. Michael Guiry. © Michael Guiry.
Ulva intestinalis at the Suva market. 16 Aug 2003. Peter Skelton. © ORDA.
KwaZulu-Natal. O. Dargent. © O. Dargent. 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.
© ABC Taxa. From: Coppejans, E., Leliaert, F., Dargent, O., Gunasekara, R., & De Clerck, O. (2009). Sri Lankan Seaweeds Methodologies and field guide to the dominant species. Vol. 6 pp. 1-265.: ABC Taxa..
Spain, Galicia, Ría de Ortigueira, 1999. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara.
Carna, Co. Galway, Ireland. Alex Dufort. © Alex Dufort.
Groton, Connecticut, USA; mid intertidal pools. 13 Sep 2007. Courtnay Hermann. © Courtnay Hermann.
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Ulva intestinalis Linnaeus Spain, Galicia, Ría de Ares, 2009
Publication details
Ulva intestinalis 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.
Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), relating to or found in the intestines (Stearn 1973).
Homotypic Synonym(s)
Conferva intestinalis (Linnaeus) Roth 1797
Tetraspora intestinalis (Linnaeus) Desvaux 1818
Scytosiphon intestinalis (Linnaeus) Lyngbye 1819
Enteromorpha intestinalis (Linnaeus) Nees 1820
Fistularia intestinalis (Linnaeus) Greville 1824
Solenia intestinalis (Linnaeus) C.Agardh 1824
Ilea intestinalis (Linnaeus) Leiblein 1827
Hydrosolen intestinalis (Linnaeus) Martius 1833
Ulva enteromorpha var. intestinalis (Linnaeus) Le Jolis 1863
Ulva bulbosa var. intestinalis (Linnaeus) Hariot 1889
Enteromorpha compressa var. intestinalis (Linnaeus) Hamel 1931
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Scytosiphon intestinalis var. nematodes Wallroth 1833
Enteronia simplex Chevallier 1836
Enteromorpha vulgaris var. lacustris Edmondston 1845
Enteromorpha intestinalis f. maxima J.Agardh 1883
Enteromorpha intestinalis var. maxima (J.Agardh) Lily Newton 1931
General environment
This is a Marine species.
Type information
Type locality: Woolwich, London, England? (Hayden et al. 2003: 289). Lectotype: Dillenius (1742: pl. 9: fig. 7) (epitype) OXF (Yoshida 1998 Notes: Blomster et al. (1999) select a lectotype (epitype) of Dillenius (1742: pl. 9: fig. 7); see also Hayden et al. (2003: 289). Type locality: 'in Mari omni' (South & Skelton, 2003).
Detailed distribution with sources
(as Ulva intestinalis Linnaeus)
Ireland: Wexford (Tighe 1803).
Europe: Balearic Islands (Weyler 1854), Britain (Hayden & Waaland 2004, Brodie et al. 2007), France (Loiseaux-de Goër & Noailles 2008), Ireland (Tighe 1803), Portugal (Araujo et al. 2009, Araújo, Bárbara & Sousa-Pinto in press), Spain (Gorostiaga et al., 2004, Bárbara et al. 2005, Pérez-Ruzafa et al. 2008, Viejo et al. 2008, de los Santos, Pérez-Lloréns & Vergara 2009, Mercado et al. 2009), Turkey (Europe) (Taskin et al. 2008 
).
Atlantic Islands: Ascension (John et al. 2004), Cape Verde Islands (John et al. 2004), Madeira (John et al. 2004), Salvage Islands (John et al. 2004).
North America: Alaska (Hayden & Waaland 2004), British Columbia (Hayden & Waaland 2004), California (Hayden & Waaland 2004), Connecticut (Van Patten 2009), Florida (Littler, Littler & Hanisak 2008), Texas (Wynne 2009).
Central America: Baja California (Norris 2010), México (Pacific) (Pedroche et al. 2005).
Africa: Eritrea (Ateweberhan & Prud'homme van Reine 2005), Ghana (John et al. 2004), Guinea-Bissau (John et al. 2004), Namibia (John et al. 2004), South Africa (Coppejans, Leliaert & Verbruggen 2005).
South-west Asia: Abu Dhabi (John, D.M.), Israel (Hoffman 2004), Pakistan (Shahnaz & Shameel 2007), Sri Lanka (Coppejans et al. 2009), Turkey (Asia) (Taskin et al. 2008 ).
Australia and New Zealand: New Zealand (Taylor et al 2006, Taylor et al 2006, Heesch et al. 2009).
Pacific Islands: American Samoa (Skelton et al. 2004).
(as Enteromorpha intestinalis (Linnaeus) Nees)
Arctic: Canada (Arctic) (Taylor 1957, Lee 1980).
Ireland: Antrim (Adams 1907, Guiry 1978, McMillan & Morton 1979, Morton 1994), Clare (Pybus 1977, Guiry 1978, De Valéra et al. 1979), Cork (Renouf 1931, Cullinane 1971, Guiry 1978), Derry (Guiry 1978, Morton 1994), Donegal (Guiry 1978, Morton 2003), Down (Guiry 1978, Morton 1994), Dublin (Sanders 1860, Guiry 1978), Galway (Pybus 1977, Guiry 1978), Kerry (Guiry 1978), Leitrim (Cullinane 1970, Guiry 1978), Limerick (Cullinane 1969, Guiry 1978), Mayo (Cotton 1912, Guiry 1978), Waterford (Guiry 1977), Wexford (Cotton 1913, Norton 1970, Guiry 1978).
Europe: Adriatic (Giaccone 1978, Munda 1979, Ercegović 1980, Gallardo et al. 1993), Balearic Islands (Colmeiro, M. 1868, Navarro & Bellón 1945, 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, Burrows 1991, Hardy & Guiry 2003), Bulgaria (Dimitrova-Konaklieva 1981), Corsica (Gallardo et al. 1993), Denmark (Larsen & Sand-Jensen 2006), 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), 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, Cullinane 1969, Cullinane 1971, Guiry 1977, Guiry 1978, De Valéra et al. 1979, Burrows 1991, Morton 1994), 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), Malta (Cormaci et al. 1997), Netherlands (Stegenga & Mol 1983, Stegenga, Kaaremans & Simons 2007), Portugal (Ardré 1970, Araújo et al., 2003), Romania (Caraus 2002), Spain (Lázaro Ibiza 1889, Sauvageau 1897, Hamel 1928, Miranda 1931, Bellón 1942, González Guerrero 1957, Seoane-Camba 1957, Ardré 1957, González Guerrero 1957, Seoane-Camba 1965, Ballesteros 1981, Ballesteros & Romero 1982, Pérez-Cirera & Maldonado 1982, Barcelo & Seoane 1982, Gallardo & Pérez-Cirera 1982, Fernández & Niell 1982, Anadón 1983, Aboal & Llimona 1984a, Pérez-Ruzafa & Honrubia 1984, Gallardo et al. 1985, Alvárez Cobelas & Gallardo 1986, Aboal 1988b, Rodriguez Prieto & Polo Alberti 1988, Soto & Conde 1989, Pérez-Ruzafa 1990, Granja, Cremades & Barbara 1992, Gallardo et al. 1993, Aboal et al. 1994, Flores-Moya et al. 1994, Flores-Moya et al. 1995, Bárbara & Cremades 1996, Veiga, Cremades & Bárbara 1998, Cambra Sánchez, Álvarez Cobelas & Aboal Sanjurjo 1998, Calvo, Bárbara & Cremades 1999, Veiga Villar 1999, Cantoral Uiza & Aboal Sanjurjo 2001, Moreno et al. 2001, Calvo & Bárbara 2002, Peña & Bárbara 2002, Pérez-Lorens et al. 2004), 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, Tittley & Neto 1994), Bermuda (Taylor 1957, Taylor 1960), Canary Islands (Børgesen 1926, Gil-Rodríguez & Afonso-Carrillo 1980, Viera-Rodriguez et al. 1987, Guadalupe et al. 1995, Haroun et al. 2002, Aldanondo-Aristizábal, Domínguez-Alvarez & Gil-Rodríguez 2003, Gil-Rodríguez et al. 2003), Cape Verde Islands (John, Lawson & Ameka, 2003, Prud'homme van Reine, Haroun & Kostermans 2005), Madeira (Neto, Cravo & Haroun 2001), Salvage Islands (Audiffred & Weisscher 1984, Parente et al. 2000, Hardy & Guiry 2003), Tristan da Cunha (Baardseth 1941).
North America: Alaska (Lindstrom 1977, Scagel et al. 1989, Mondragon & Mondragon 2003), British Columbia (Scagel et al. 1989), California (Abbott & Hollenberg 1976, Silva 1979, Cohen & Fong 2005), Florida (Taylor 1957, Dawes 1974), Gulf of California (Dawson 1944), Maine (Mathieson et al. 2001), Mexico (Mondragon & Mondragon 2003), New Hampshire (Mathieson & Hehre 1986), North Carolina (Taylor 1957, Taylor 1960, Schneider & Searles 1991), Oregon (Hansen 1997), Quebec (Taylor 1957), Texas (Taylor 1960), Virginia (Humm 1979), Washington (Scagel et al. 1989).
Caribbean Islands: Caribbean (Littler & Littler 2000), Cuba (Comas González 2008), Jamaica (Taylor 1960), Lesser Antilles (Taylor 1960), Puerto Rico (Taylor 1960).
South America: Argentina (Boraso de Zaixso 2004), Brazil (Taylor 1930, Taylor 1960), Chile (Santelices 1989, Ramírez & Santelices 1991, Hoffmann & Santelices 1997), Peru (Ramírez & Santelices 1991), Uruguay (Taylor 1939, Coll & Oliveira 1999), Venezuela (Ganesan 1990).
Africa: Algeria (Gallardo et al. 1993), Egypt (Papenfuss 1968, Mohsen, Kharboush, Khaleafa, Metwalli & Azab 1975, Aleem 1993, Gallardo et al. 1993), Ghana (Lawson & John 1987, John, Lawson & Ameka, 2003), Guinea-Bissau (Welten, Audiffred & Prud'homme van Reine 2002, Welten, Audiffred & Prud'homme van Reine 2002, John, Lawson & Ameka, 2003), Libya (Gallardo et al. 1993), Morocco (Dangeard 1949, Gil-Rodriguez & Socorro Hernández 1986, Gallardo et al. 1993, Benhissoune, Boudouresque & Verlaque 2001, Benhissoune, Boudouresque & Verlaque 2001), Namibia (Rull Lluch 2002), South Africa (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Stegenga, Bolton & Anderson 1997), Tunisia (Meñez & Mathieson 1981, Ben Maiz, Boudouresque & Quahchi 1987, Gallardo et al. 1993).
Indian Ocean Islands: Andaman Islands (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Laccadive Islands (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Rodrigues Island (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Seychelles (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), Israel (Einav 2007), Kuwait (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Levant states (Gallardo et al. 1993), Pakistan (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Sri Lanka (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Yemen (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996).
Asia: China (Tseng 1984, Hu & Wei 2006), Japan (Yoshida, Nakajima & Nakata 1990, Yoshida 1998), 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), Philippines (Silva, Meñez & Moe 1987), Singapore (Teo & Wee 1983, Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Vietnam (Pham-Hoàng 1969).
Australia and New Zealand: New Zealand (Adams 1994, Adams 1997), Papua New Guinea (Coppejans et al. 2001), Queensland (Lewis 1987, Day et al. 1995, Phillips 1997, Phillips 2002), South Australia (Womersley 1984), Tasmania (Womersley 1984), Victoria (Day et al. 1995).
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), Macquarie Island (Ricker 1987), South Shetland Islands (Wiencke & Clayton 2002).
(as Enteromorpha intestinalis f. maxima J.Agardh)
Europe: Britain (Newton 1931).
North America: Alaska (Lindstrom 1977).
(as Enteromorpha compressa var. intestinalis (Linnaeus) Hamel)
Europe: France (Coppejans 1972).
Key references
Braune, W. (2008). Meeresalgen. Ein Farbbildführer zu den verbreiteten benthischen Grün- Braun- und Rotalgen der Weltmeere. pp. [1]-596, 266 pls. Ruggell: A.R.G. Gantner Verlag.
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. & Waaland, J.R. (2004). A molecular systematic study of Ulva (Ulvaceae, Ulvales) from the northeast Pacific. Phycologia 43: 364-382.
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.
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.
Skelton, P.A. & South, G.R. (2007). The benthic marine algae of the Samoan Archipelago, South Pacific, with emphasis on the Apia District. Nova Hedwigia Beihefte 132: 1-350.
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 156 samples identified as Ulva intestinalis.
Created: 19 October 1998 by M.D. Guiry
Verified by: 21 May 2010 by M.D. Guiry
Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 6775 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.)
Barr, N.G., Tijsen, R.J. & Rees, T.A.V. (2004). Contrasting effects of methionine sulfoximine on uptake and assimiliation of ammonium in Ulva intestinalis (Chlorophyceae). Journal of Phycology 40: 697-704.
Björnsäter, B.R. & Wheeler, P.A. (1983). Effect of nitrogen and phosphorus supply on growth and tissue composition of Ulva fenestrata and Enteromorpha intestinalis (Ulvales, Chlorophyta). Journal of Phycology 26: 603-611.
Björnsäter, B.R. & Wheeler, P.A. (1990). Effect of nitrogen and phosphorus supply on growth and tissue composition of Ulva fenestrata and Enteromrpha intestinalis (Ulvales, Chlorophyta). Journal of Phycology 26: 603-611, 5 figs, 4 tables.
Kostamo, K., Blomster, J., Korpelainen, H., Kelly, J., Maggs, C.A. & Mineur, F. (2008). New microsatellite markers for Ulva intestinalis (Chlorophyta) and the transferability of markers across species Ulvaceae. Phycologia 47: 580-587.
Taylor, M.W., Barr, N.G., Grant, C.M. & Rees, T.A.V. (2006). Changes in amino acid composition of Ulva intestinalis (Chlorophyceae) following addition of ammonium or nitrate. Phycologia 45: 270-276.
