Dumontia contorta (S.G.Gmelin) Ruprecht

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Rhodophyta
Subphylum Eurhodophytina
Class Florideophyceae
Subclass Rhodymeniophycidae
Order Gigartinales
Family Dumontiaceae
Genus Dumontia

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Spiddal, Co. Galway, Ireland. . 22 Apr 2012. M.D. Guiry. © M.D. Guiry (michael.guiry@algaebase.org).

Spiddal, Co. Galway, Ireland. 12 Feb 2012. M.D. Guiry (mike.guiry@nuigalway.ie). © M.D. Guiry (mike.guiry@nuigalway.ie).

Tragove, Galicia, Spain, 2011. 09 Dec 2011. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

Leça de Palmeira, Portugal, 2010. 09 Dec 2011. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

Barrañán beach, Spain, 2011. 09 Dec 2011. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

New Quay, Co. Clare, Ireland. 25 May 2011. M.D. Guiry. © M.D. Guiry (mike.guiry@nuigalway.ie).

Dumontia cortorta; Spiddal, Co. Galway. 03 Apr 2011. M.D. Guiry. © M.D. Guiry (mike.guiry@nuigalway.ie).

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Dumontia contorta (S.G.Gmelin) Ruprecht Muigh Inis, Co. Galway, Ireland; in upper-shore pools on corallines

Publication details
Dumontia contorta (S.G.Gmelin) Ruprecht 1850: 295

Original publication: Ruprecht, F.J. (1850). Algae ochotenses. Die ersten sicheren Nachrichten über die Tange des Ochotskischen Meeres. pp. 1-243, 10 pls. St. Petersburg: Buchdruckerei der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften.
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Type species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Dumontia is Dumontia incrassata (O.F.Müller) J.V.Lamouroux.

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

Basionym
Fucus contortus S.G.Gmelin

Type information
Type locality: Ad litus Scheuelingense prope Hagam comium e mari reiectum Cel. Pallas (Gmelin 1768: 181). Lectotype: Illustration in Gmelin (pl. 22: fig. 1) (epitype) (Irvine 1983: 14).

Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), contorted, literally, powerful, vehement, involved. (Stearn 1973).

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Fucus contortus S.G.Gmelin 1768
Ulva contorta (S.G.Gmelin) De Candolle 1805

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Ulva filiformis Hornemann 1773
Ulva incrassata O.F.Müller 1775
Ulva spongiformis O.F.Müller 1778
Dumontia incrassata (O.F.Müller) J.V.Lamouroux 1813
Conferva filiformis Hornemann 1813
Ulva compressa var. purpurea C.Agardh 1817
Gastridium filiforme (Hornemann) Lynbye 1819
Gastridium filiforme var. incrassatum (O.F.Müller) Lyngbye 1819
Gastridium filiforme var. flavum Lyngbye 1819
Gastridium filiforme var. rugosum O.F.Müller ex Lyngbye 1819
Gastridium filiforme var. spongiforme (O.F.Müller) Lyngbye 1819
Halymenia filiformis (Hornemann) C.Agardh 1822
Halymenia filiformis var. incrassata (O.F.Müller) C.Agardh 1822
Solenia filiformis (Hornemann) Sprengel 1824
Dumontia filiformis (Hornemann) Greville 1830
Halymenia purpurascens var. crispata Greville 1830
Dumontia filiformis var. crispata (Greville) Greville 1830
Gastridium filiforme var. intestiniformis Liebmann 1845
Dumontia filiformis f. crispata (Greville) Hauck 1883
Dumontia incrassata var. crispata (Greville) Batters 1902

General environment
This is a marine species.

Common names

(as Dumontia contorta (S.G.Gmelin) Ruprecht)
English: Dumont's Tubular Weed (Bunker et al. 2010).

Description
Soft, pale yellowish to purple fronds, solitary or tufted from discoid base, tubular, cylindrical or compressed, irregularly branched, to 500 mm long, filled with a watery mucilage. Axis and branches tapered at both ends, irregularly swollen, often twisted, to 5 mm or more broad. Basal disc to 20 mm diam., persistent, erect fronds initiated internally.

Habitat
On rock and pebbles, shallow open pools, upper intertidal to shallow subtidal, common, widely distributed.

Distribution by country

Point data for Ireland and Britain

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Detailed distribution with sources
(as Ulva filiformis Hornemann)
Ireland: Wexford (Tighe 1803).

Europe: Ireland (Tighe 1803).

(as Dumontia incrassata (O.F.Müller) J.V.Lamouroux)
Arctic: Canada (Arctic) (Taylor 1957, Lee 1980).

Ireland: Antrim (Guiry 1978), Clare (Guiry 1978, De Valéra et al. 1979), Cork (Cullinane 1971, Guiry 1978), Donegal (Guiry 1978), Dublin (Guiry 1978), Galway (Guiry 1978), Kerry (Guiry 1978), Leitrim (Cullinane 1970, Guiry 1978), Louth (Synnott 1969, Guiry 1978), Mayo (Guiry 1978), Sligo (Cullinane 1970), Waterford (Guiry 1978), Wexford (Parkes & Scannell 1969, Guiry 1978).

Europe: Britain (Newton 1931), France (Feldmann 1954), Greece (Tsekos & Haritonidis 1977), Helgoland (Bartsch & Kuhlenkamp 2000), Ireland (Cullinane 1971, Guiry 1978, De Valéra et al. 1979), Portugal (Ardré 1970), Spain (Miranda 1931, Pérez-Cirera & Maldonado 1982, Gallardo & Pérez-Cirera 1982, Anadón & Fernández 1986), Sweden (Kylin 1944).

Atlantic Islands: Iceland (Caram & Jónsson 1972).

North America: Alaska (Lindstrom 1977), New Jersey (Taylor 1957), Nova Scotia (Taylor 1957), Rhode Island (Taylor 1957).

Asia: Japan (Segawa 1981), Russia (Perestenko 1980).

(as Dumontia filiformis (Hornemann) Greville)
Ireland: Cork (Renouf 1931), Mayo (Cotton 1912), Wexford (Cotton 1913).

Europe: Ireland (Cotton 1912, Cotton 1913), Spain (Miranda 1931), Sweden (Kylin 1907).

Asia: Japan (Okamura 1936).

(as Dumontia contorta (S.G.Gmelin) Ruprecht)
Ireland: Antrim (Morton 1994), Derry (Morton 1994), Donegal (Morton 2003), Down (Morton 1994), Sligo (Clarkston & Saunders 2012).

Europe: Baltic Sea (Nielsen et al. 1995), Britain (Irvine 1983, Hardy & Guiry 2003), Denmark (Larsen & Sand-Jensen 2006), Faroe Islands (Irvine 1982, Nielsen & Gunnarsson 2001), France (Coppejans 1995, Dizerbo & Herpe 2007, Loiseaux-de Goër & Noailles 2008, Zubia et al. 2009, Anon. 2012), Helgoland (Bartsch & Kuhlenkamp 2000), Ireland (Irvine 1983, Morton 1994, Guiry 2012), Netherlands (Stegenga & Mol 1983, Stegenga, Kaaremans & Simons 2007), Norway (Rueness 1997), Portugal (Araujo, R., I. Bárbara, I. Sousa-Pinto & V. Quintino (2005), Araújo et al. 2006, Araujo et al. 2009, Araújo, Bárbara & Sousa-Pinto in press), Scandinavia (Athanasiadis 1996), Spain (Pérez-Cirera 1989, Bárbara & Cremades 1996, Veiga, Cremades & Bárbara 1998, Peña & Bárbara 2002, Bárbara 2002, Valenzuela Miranda 2002, Sánchez, Fernández & Rico 2003, Bárbara et al. 2005, Cires Rodriguez & Cuesta Moliner 2010), Spitsbergen (Vinogradova 1995).

Atlantic Islands: Azores (Neto 1994 ).

North America: Alaska (Scagel et al. 1989, Tai, Lindstrom & Saunders 2001), Maine (Mathieson et al. 2001), New Brunswick (Tai, Lindstrom & Saunders 2001, Bates et al. 2005), New Hampshire (Mathieson & Hehre 1986), Nova Scotia (Saunders & Lindstrom 2011), USA (D'Archino, Nelson & Zuccarello 2010).

Asia: Commander Islands (Selivanova & Zhigadlova 1997), Japan (Yoshida, Nakajima & Nakata 1990, Yoshida 1998), Kamchatka (Selivanova & Zhigadlova 2009), Russia (Perestenko 1994, Kozhenkova 2009).

(as Dumontia incrassata var. crispata (Greville) Batters)
Europe: Britain (Newton 1931).

Key references
Braune, W. (2008). Meeresalgen. Ein Farbbildführer zu den verbreiteten benthischen Grün- Braun- und Rotalgen der Weltmeere. pp. [1]-596, pls 1-266 (colour photographs). Ruggell: A.R.G. Gantner Verlag.

Klochkova, N.G., Korolyova, T.N. & Kusidi, A.E. (2009). [Atlas of marine algae of Kamchatka and surrounding areas. Vol. 2. Red seaweeds]. pp. 1-301. Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky: KamchatNIRO Press.

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

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

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=Dumontia&Species=contorta

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 31 March 1996 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 12 January 2012 by M.D. Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 6382 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.)

Klein, B. (1987). The phenology of Dumontia contorta (Rhodophyta) studied by following individual plants in situ at Roscoff, northern Brittany. Botanica Marina 30: 187-194.
Pot, R., Klein, B., Rietema, H. & van den Hoek, C. (1988). A field study on the growth and development of Dumontia contorta. Helgoländer Meeresuntersuchungen 42(3-4): 553-562.
Rietema, H. & Breeman, A.M. (1982). The regulation of the life history of Dumontia contorta in comparison to that of several other Dumontiaceae (Rhodophyta). Botanica Marina 25: 569-576.
Rietema, H. & Klein, A.W.O. (1981). Environmental control of the life cycle of Dumontia contorta (Rhodophyta) kept in culture. Marine Ecology Progress Series 4: 23-29.
Rietema, H. & van den Hoek, C. (1984). Search for possible latitudinal ecotypes in Dumontia contorta (Rhodophyta). Helgoländer Meeresuntersuchungen 38: 389-399.
Rietema, H. (1982). Effects of photoperiod and temperature on macrothallus initiation in Dumontia contorta (Rhodophyta). Marine Ecology Progress Series 8: 187-196.
Rietema, H. (1984). Development of erect thalli from basal crusts in Dumontia contorta (Gmel.) Rupr. (Rhodophyta, Cryptonemiales). Botanica Marina 27: 29-36.
Wilce, R.T. & Davis, A.N. (1984). Development of Dumontia contorta (Dumontiaceae, Cryptonemiales) compared with that of other higher red algae. Journal of Phycology 20: 336-351.

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