Delesseria sanguinea (Hudson) J.V.Lamouroux

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Rhodophyta
Subphylum Eurhodophytina
Class Florideophyceae
Subclass Rhodymeniophycidae
Order Ceramiales
Family Delesseriaceae
Subfamily Delesserioideae
Tribe Delesserieae
Genus Delesseria

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Whirlpool Cliff, Lough Hyne, Co. Cork, Ireland; 5-7 m; to 130 mm long. 25 May 2011. M.D. Guiry. © M.D. Guiry (mike.guiry@nuigalway.ie).

Scotland, Oban area east coast. 26 Mar 2011. Mat Vestjens & Anne Frijsinger. © Mat Vestjens & Anne Frijsinger (annenmat@natuurlijkmooi.net).

Finavarra, Co. Clare, Ireland; drift plant to 600 mm. 14 Apr 2006. Michael Guiry. © Michael Guiry (mike.guiry@nuigalway.ie).

Lough Hyne, Co. Cork, Ireland; subtidal; to 130 mm. 27 Apr 1994. Michael Guiry. © Michael Guiry (mike.guiry@nuigalway.ie).

Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, Baltic Sea. Dirk Schories. © Dirk Schories (dirk.schories@gmx.de).

Delesseria sanguinea (Hudson) J.V.Lamouroux Scotland, Oban area east coast

Publication details
Delesseria sanguinea (Hudson) J.V.Lamouroux 1813: 122

Original publication: Lamouroux, J.V.F. (1813). Essai sur les genres de la famille des thalassiophytes non articulées. Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris 20: 21-47, 115-139, 267-293, pls 7-13.
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Type species
This is the type species (lectotype) of the genus Delesseria.

Status of name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.

Basionym
Fucus sanguineus Hudson

Type information
Syntype localities: Habitat in littoribus Eboracensi et Cornubensi [Living on the shores of York, NE England and Cornwall, SW England] (Hudson 1762: 475).

Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), blood-red (Stearn 1973).

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Fucus sanguineus Hudson 1762
Hydrolapathum sanguineum (Hudson) Stackhouse 1809
Sphaerococcus sanguineus (Hudson) Wahlenberg 1826
Wormskioldia sanguinea (Hudson) Spengel 1827

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Delesseria sanguinea var. lanceolata C.Agardh 1822
Delesseria sanguinea var. latifolia Carmichael 1833
Delesseria sanguinea f. filiformis Levring 1940

General environment
This is a Marine species.

Common names

(as Delesseria sanguinea (Hudson) J.V.Lamouroux)
English: Sea Beech (Bunker et al. 2010).

Swedish: Ribbeblad (Tolstoy & Österlund 2003).

Description
Membranous, bright crimson fronds, with cartilaginous, cylindrical, branched stipe, from thickened discoid holdfast, to 300 mm long. Branches bearing spirally arranged, leaflike, ovate-lanceolate blades, each with short stipe and pinnately branched midrib, membranous portion monostromatic, margin undulate (on mature blades), entire. Reproductive structures in small oval, stalked blades, borne on midribs in winter.

Habitat
On rocks, in deep shady lower intertidal pools and in the subtidal, generally distributed, common.

Distribution by country

Point data for Ireland and Britain

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Detailed distribution with sources
(as Fucus sanguineus Hudson)
Ireland: Wexford (Tighe 1803).

Europe: Ireland (Tighe 1803).

(as Hydrolapathum sanguineum (Hudson) Stackhouse)
Ireland: Antrim (Dickie 1871).

(as Delesseria sanguinea (Hudson) J.V.Lamouroux)
Ireland: Antrim (Drummond 1837, Adams 1907, Guiry 1978, Morton 1994), Clare (Guiry 1978, De Valéra et al. 1979), Cork (Cullinane 1971, Cullinane, McCarthy & Fletcher 1975, Guiry 1978, Hiscock & Maggs 1982, Cullinane & Whelan 1983), Derry (Morton 1994), Donegal (Guiry 1978, Maggs & Guiry 1982, Maggs & Hommersand 1993, Morton 2003), Down (Drummond 1837, Morton 1974, Guiry 1978, Maggs & Hommersand 1993, Morton 1994), Dublin (Sanders 1860, Guiry 1978), Galway (Guiry 1978), Kerry (Guiry 1978, Cullinane & Whelan 1983, Cullinane & Whelan 1984, Whelan & Cullinane 1985), Louth (Synnott 1969, Guiry 1978), Mayo (Cotton 1912, Guiry 1978), Sligo (Cullinane 1970), Waterford (Guiry 1978), Wexford (Cotton 1913, Parkes & Scannell 1969, Norton 1970, Guiry 1978).

Scotland: Scotland (Marconi et al. 2011).

Europe: Baltic Sea (Nielsen et al. 1995, Goecke et al. 2013), Britain (Newton 1931, Maggs & Hommersand 1993, Hardy & Guiry 2003, Kain (Jones) 2006), Denmark (Larsen & Sand-Jensen 2006), Faroe Islands (Irvine 1982, Nielsen & Gunnarsson 2001), France (Feldmann 1954, Coppejans 1995, Dizerbo & Herpe 2007, Loiseaux-de Goër & Noailles 2008, Anon. 2012), Greece (Tsekos & Haritonidis 1977), Helgoland (Bartsch & Kuhlenkamp 2000), Ireland (Adams 1907, Cotton 1912, Cotton 1913, Cullinane 1971, Guiry 1978, De Valéra et al. 1979, Whelan & Cullinane 1985, Maggs & Hommersand 1993, Morton 1994, Guiry 2012), Netherlands (Stegenga & Mol 1983), Norway (Rueness 1997), Portugal (Ardré 1970, Araújo et al., 2003, Bárbara et al. 2006, Araujo et al. 2009, Araújo, Bárbara & Sousa-Pinto in press), Scandinavia (Athanasiadis 1996), Spain (Miranda 1931, Conde & Seoane 1982, Gallardo & Pérez-Cirera 1982, Gallardo et al. 1985, Granja, Cremades & Barbara 1992, Bárbara, Cremades & Pérez-Cirera 1995, Bárbara & Cremades 1996, Cremades, Bárbara, Granja & Veiga 1997, Valenzuela Miranda 2002, Bárbara et al. 2005, Cires Rodriguez & Cuesta Moliner 2010), Sweden (Kylin 1907, Kylin 1944, Tolstoy & Österlund 2003).

Atlantic Islands: Iceland (Caram & Jónsson 1972).

Key references
Kain (Jones), J.M. (2006). Photoperiodism in Delesseria sanguinea (Ceramiales, Rhodophyta) 2. Daylengths are shorter underwater. Phycologia 45: 624-631.

Larsen, A. & Sand-Jensen, K. (2005). Salt tolerance and distribution of estuarine benthic macroalgae in the Kattegat-Baltic Sea area. Phycologia 45: 13-23.

Loiseaux-de Goër, S. & Noailles, M.-C. (2008). Algues de Roscoff. pp. [1]-215, col. figs. Roscoff: Editions de la Station Biologique de Roscoff.

Maggs, C.A. & Hommersand, M.H. (1993). Seaweeds of the British Isles. Volume 1. Rhodophyta. Part 3A. Ceramiales. pp. [i]-xv, 1-444, 129 figs, map. London: HMSO.

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

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=Delesseria&Species=sanguinea

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 30 March 1996 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 27 February 2013 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.)

Kain (Jones), J.M. (2006). Photoperiodism in Delesseria sanguinea (Ceramiales, Rhodophyta) 2. Daylengths are shorter underwater. Phycologia 45: 624-631.
Kain (Jones), J.M. & Bates, M.J. (1993). The reproductive phenology of Delesseria sanguinea and Odonthalia dentata off the Isle of Man. European Journal of Phycology 28: 173-182, 9 figs, 2 tables.
Kain (Jones), J.M. (1996). Photoperiodism in Delesseria sanguinea (Ceramiales, Rhodophyta) 1. The phases and sexes differ. Phycologia 35: 446-455, 7 figs, 5 tables.
Kain (Jones), J.M. (2003). Control of blade growth in Delesseria sanguinea (Rhodophyta). Proceedings of the International Seaweed Symposium 17: 403-410.
Kain, J.M. (1987). Photoperiod and temperature as triggers in the seasonality of Delesseria sanguinea. Helgoländer Meeresuntersuchungen 41: 355-370.
Lundsteen, S. (1980). Unusual occurrences of reproductive structures in Delesseria sanguinea and Spermothamnion repens (Bangiophyceae, Ceramiales). Botanisk Tidsskrift 75: 155-157.
Lundsten, S. (1980). Unusual occurrences of reproductive structure in Delesseria sanguinea and Spermothamnin repens (Bangiophyceae, Ceramiales). Botanisk Tidsskrift 75: 155-157.
Lüning, K. & Schmitz, K. (1988). Dark growth of the red alga Delesseria sanguinea (Ceramiales): lack of chlorophyll, photosynthetic capability and phycobilisomes. Phycologia 27: 72-77.
Lüning, K. (1984). Growth and lack of chlorophyll a in a dark-cultivated Delesseria sanguinea. British Phycological Journal 19: 196-197.
Molenaar, F.J. & Breeman, A.M. (1997). Latitudinal trends in the growth and reproductive seasonality of Delesseria sanguinea, Membranoptera alata and Phycodrys rubens (Rhodophyta). Journal of Phycology 33: 330-343, 9 figs, 3 tables.
Nabil, S. & Cosson, J. (1996). Seasonal variation in sterol composition of Delesseria sanguinea ((Ceramiales, Rhodophyta). Proceedings of the International Seaweed Symposium 15: 511-514.
Pang, S., Gomez, I. & Lüning, K. (2001). The red alga Delesseria sanguinea as a UVB-sensitive model organism: selective growth reduction by UVB in outdoor experiments and rapid recording of growth rate during and after UV pulses. European Journal of Phycology 36: 207-216.
Potin, P., Patier, P., Floc'h, J.-Y., Yvin, J.C., Rochas, C. & Kloareg, B. (1992). Chemical characterization of cell-wall polysaccharides from tank-cultivated and wild plants of Delesseria sanguinea (Hudson) Lamouroux (Ceramiales, delesseriaceae) - culture patterns and potent anticoagulant activity. J Appl Phycol 4(2): 119-128.
Rietema, H. (1993). Ecotypic differences between Baltic and North Sea populations of Delesseria sanguinea and Membranoptera alata. Botanica Marina 36: 15-21, 7 figs.
Shameel, M. (1975). Untersuchungen über Wirkung des hydrostatischen Druckes auf das Wachstum von Delesseria sanguinea (L.) Lamour. aus des Westlichen Ostsee. Hydrobiologia 47: 209-230.
Shameel, M. (1977). Combined of hydrostatic pressure and temperature on the activity of alkaline phosphatases from Delesseria sanguinea (L.) Lamour.. Pak. J. Bot. 9: 17-23.
Svedelius, N. (1911). Über den Generationswechsel bei Delesseria sanguinea. Svensk Botanisk Tidskrift 5: 260-324, 3 tables.
Svedelius, N. (1912). Über die Spermatienbildung bei Delesseria sanguinea. Svensk Botanisk Tidskrift 6: 239-265, 6 tables, 11 figs.
Svedelius, N. (1914). Über die Zystokarpienbildung bei Delesseria sanguinea. Svensk Botanisk Tidskrift 8: 1-32, 2 tables, 22 figs.

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