Callithamnion byssoides Arnott ex Harvey
Publication details
Callithamnion byssoides Arnott ex Harvey in W.J. Hooker 1833: 342
Original publication: Harvey, W.H. (1833). Div. II. Confervoideae; Div. III. Gloiocladeae. In: The English Flora of Sir James Edward Smith. Class XXIV. Cryptogamia. Vol. V. (or Vol. II of Dr. Hooker's British flora). Part I. Comprising the Mosses, Hepaticae, Lichens, Characeae and Algae. (Hooker, W.J. Eds), pp. 263-265, 265-266, 326-389, 389-405. London: Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans Paternoster-Row.
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Type species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Callithamnion is Callithamnion corymbosum (Smith) Lyngbye.
Status of name
This name is currently regarded as a taxonomic synonym of Aglaothamnion tenuissimum (Bonnemaison) Feldmann-Mazoyer
Synonym(s)
No synonyms are currently included in AlgaeBase.
General environment
This is a marine species.
Distribution by country
Type information
Lectotype locality: Whitsand Bay, Cornwall, England (Harvey 1833: 342). Lectotype: Arnott; TCD (Womersley 1998: 248).
Detailed distribution with sources
(as Callithamnion byssoides Arnott ex Harvey)
Ireland: Clare (Maggs 1983), Cork (Guiry 1978), Down (Guiry 1978), Dublin (Guiry 1978), Galway (Guiry 1978, Maggs 1983), Mayo (Cotton 1912, Guiry 1978).
Europe: Britain (Newton 1931, Dixon & Price 1981), France (Miranda 1932), Greece (Athanasiadis 1987), Ireland (Cotton 1912, Guiry 1978, Maggs 1983), Netherlands (Stegenga & Mol 1983), Spain (Miranda 1934, Ballesteros 1981, Ballesteros & Romero 1982, Boisset & Barceló 1984, Pérez-Ruzafa & Honrubia 1984, Gallardo et al. 1985, Rodriguez Prieto & Polo Alberti 1988, Soto & Conde 1989, Rodríguez-Prieto & Polo, L. 1996, Rodriguez-Prieto & Polo Albertí 1998).
Atlantic Islands: Bermuda (Taylor 1960), Canary Islands (Gil-Rodríguez & Afonso-Carrillo 1980, Gil-Rodriguez et al. 1985, Price, John & Lawson 1986, Sanson & Gil-Rodríguez 1993), Madeira (Levring 1974).
North America: New Hampshire (Mathieson & Hehre 1986), Virginia (Humm 1979).
Central America: Islas Revillagigedo (Setchell & Gardner 1930).
Caribbean Islands: Jamaica (Taylor 1960), Lesser Antilles (Taylor 1960), Virgin Islands (Taylor 1960).
South America: Brazil (Oliveira Filho 1977), Venezuela (Ganesan 1990).
Africa: Egypt (Papenfuss 1968 
), Sierra Leone (Price, John & Lawson 1986), Tunisia (Meñez & Mathieson 1981).
Australia and New Zealand: Queensland (Lewis 1984), South Australia (Womersley 1998), Western Australia (Womersley 1998).
Taxonomic notes
According to Womersley (1998) this is a current species.
According to Kapraun & Dunwoody (2002: 508), Aglaothamnion boergesenia (Aponte & Ballantine) L'Hardy-Halos & Rueness = Callithamnion byssoides Arnott ex Harvey in Hooker. - (7 Jun 2006) - Wendy Guiry
Source of synonymy
Womersley, H.B.S. (1998). The marine benthic flora of southern Australia - Part IIIC. Ceramiales - Ceramiaceae, Dasyaceae. pp. 535. Canberra & Adelaide: Australian Biological Resources Study & State Herbarium of South Australia.
UTEX Cultures
UTEX Culture LB 2294 Callithamnion byssoides
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SAG Cultures
SAG Cultures may be viewed at http://sagdb.uni-goettingen.de/showstrains.php?genus=Callithamnion&species=byssoides
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=Callithamnion&Species=byssoides
Created: 05 November 1998 by M.D. Guiry
Verified by: 17 December 2008 by Wendy Guiry
Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 980 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.)
Edwards, P. (1969). The life history of Callithamnion byssoides in culture. Journal of Phycology 5: 266-268.
Edwards, P. (1971). Effects of light intensity, daylength, and temperature on growth and reproduction of Callithamnion byssoides. Contributions in Phycology September: 163-174, 7 figs, 4 tables.
Kapraun, D.F. (1978). Field and culture studies on growth and reproduction of Callithamnion byssoides (Rhodophyta, Ceramiales) in North Carolina. Journal of Phycology 14: 21-24.
Rueness, J. & L'Hardy-Halos, M.-T. (1991). Aglaothamnion westbrookiae sp. nov. (Rhodophyta), a species previously confused under the name Callithamnion byssoides. Journal of Phycology 27: 649-652.
Rueness, J. & Rueness, M. (1980). Culture and field observations on Callithamnion bipinnatum and C. byssoides (Rhodophyta, Ceramiales) from Norway. Sarsia 65: 29-34.
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Citing AlgaeBase
Cite this record as:
Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2013.
AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org; searched on 20 June 2013.
Algaebase taxon LSID: No taxonomy record found for this level.
