Cladostephus spongiosus f. verticillatus (Lightfoot) Prud'homme van Reine

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Chromista
Phylum Ochrophyta
Class Phaeophyceae
Order Sphacelariales
Family Cladostephaceae
Genus Cladostephus

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Publication details
Cladostephus spongiosus f. verticillatus (Lightfoot) Prud'homme van Reine 1972: 142

Original publication: Prud'homme van Reine, W.F. (1972). Notes on Sphacelariales (Phaeophyceae) II. On the identity of Cladostephus setaceus Suhr and remarks on European Cladostephus. Blumea 20: 138-144, pl. II.

Type species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Cladostephus is Cladostephus spongiosus (Hudson) C.Agardh.

Status of name
This name is currently regarded as a taxonomic synonym of Cladostephus spongiosus (Hudson) C.Agardh

Basionym
Conferva verticillata Lightfoot

Type information
Type locality: Firth of Forth, Scotland (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996: 574).

Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), spongy, porous, soft like a wet sponge (Stearn 1973).

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Fucus hirsutus Linnaeus 1767
Conferva myriophyllum Roth 1801
Cladostephus australis Kützing 1856

General environment
This is a marine species.

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Cladostephus australis Kützing)
Antarctic and the subantarctic islands: Fuegia (Ardissone 1888, Papenfuss 1964).

(as Cladostephus spongiosus f. verticillatus (Lightfoot) Prud'homme van Reine)
Ireland: Antrim (Morton 1994), Clare (De Valéra et al. 1979), Derry (Morton 1994), Donegal (Morton 2003), Down (Morton 1994).

Europe: Adriatic (Munda 1979, Ercegovic 1980, Ribera et al. 1992), Balearic Islands (Ribera et al. 1992), Black Sea (Ribera et al. 1992), Britain (Hardy & Guiry 2003), Bulgaria (Dimitrova-Konaklieva 1981), Corsica (Coppejans 1979, Ribera et al. 1992), France (Ribera et al. 1992, Verlaque 2001, Anon. 2012), Greece (Athanasiadis 1987, Ribera et al. 1992), Ireland (De Valéra et al. 1979, Morton 1994, Guiry 2012), Italy (Giaccone 1969, Cinelli et al. 1976, Ribera et al. 1992, Ribera et al. 1992, Furnari, Cormaci & Serio 1999, Rindi, Sartoni & Cinelli 2002), Malta (Cormaci et al. 1997), Pelagean Islands (Alongi et al. 2012), Romania (Caraus 2002), Spain (Ribera et al. 1992, Conde Poyales 1992, Flores-Moya et al. 1995, Valenzuela Miranda 2002), Turkey (Europe) (Ribera et al. 1992, Taskin et al. 2008 ), Veneto (Sfriso, A.).

Atlantic Islands: Canary Islands (Price, John & Lawson 1978), Salvage Islands (Audiffred & Weisscher 1984).

North America: New Hampshire (Mathieson & Hehre 1986).

Africa: Algeria (Ribera et al. 1992), Egypt (Ribera et al. 1992, Aleem 1993), Libya (Ribera et al. 1992), Morocco (Ribera et al. 1992), Tunisia (Ribera et al. 1992).

South-west Asia: Turkey (Asia) (Taskin et al. 2008 ).

Australia and New Zealand: New Zealand (Harper et al. 2012).

Taxonomic notes
Womersley (1987: 187) pointed out that the only difference between the forma verticillata and the nominate forma was the distance between the whorl branchlets, which could only be an environmental response, and thus the forms have no taxonomic value. - (28 Jun 2012) - M.D. Guiry

Source of synonymy
Womersley, H.B.S. (1987). The marine benthic flora of southern Australia. Part II. pp. 481, 169 figs, 1 table, 8 plates, 4 maps. Adelaide: South Australian Government Printing Division.

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.

Sfriso, A. (2011). Ochrophyta (Phaeophyceae e Xanthophyceae). Ambiente di transizione italiani e litorali adiacenti. pp. [1]-234, pls 1-51. Bologna: Arpa Emilia-Romagna.

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

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=Cladostephus&Species=spongiosus

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 11 December 1997 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 28 June 2012 by Michael Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 1319 times since it was created.

Linking to this page: http://www.algaebase.org/search/species/detail/?species_id=1306

Citing AlgaeBase
Cite this record as:
Michael Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2013. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org; searched on 22 May 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: No taxonomy record found for this level.