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Lomentaria articulata (Hudson) Lyngbye

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Rhodophyta
Subphylum Eurhodophytina
Class Florideophyceae
Subclass Rhodymeniophycidae
Order Rhodymeniales
Family Lomentariaceae
Genus Lomentaria

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Collected near Roscoff (F), December 1984. 29 Dec 2011. Elmar Wosnitza. © Christine Wosnitza.

Lomentaria articulata; Spiddal, Co. Galway" 2#62. 03 Apr 2011. M.D. Guiry. © M.D. Guiry (mike.guiry@nuigalway.ie).

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

Selce, northern Croatia. 26 Mar 2011. Mat Vestjens & Anne Frijsinger. © Mat Vestjens & Anne Frijsinger (annenmat@natuurlijkmooi.net).

microscope, TS frond showing diaphragm; Spain, Galicia, Lugo, San ciprián, 2006. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

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Lomentaria articulata (Hudson) Lyngbye Dog's Bay, Roundstone, Co. Galway, Ireland; plants at low water

Publication details
Lomentaria articulata (Hudson) Lyngbye 1819: 101, pl. 30

Original publication: Lyngbye, H.C. (1819). Tentamen hydrophytologiae danicae continens omnia hydrophyta cryptogama Daniae, Holsatiae, Faeroae, Islandiae, Groenlandiae hucusque cognita, systematice disposita, descripta et iconibus illustrata, adjectis simul speciebus norvegicis. pp. [i]-xxxii, [1]-248, 70 pls. Hafniae [Copenhagen]: typis Schultzianis, in commissis Librariae Gyldendaliae.
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Type species
This is the type species (holotype) of the genus Lomentaria.

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

Basionym
Ulva articulata Hudson

Type information
Type locality: Cornwall, England (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996: 350). Lectotype: original description (Hudson, 1772) in the absence of material (Dixon & Irvine 1977

Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), articulated, jointed (Stearn 1973).

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Ulva articulata Hudson 1762
Fucus articulatus (Hudson) Lightfoot 1777
Sphaerococcus articulatus (Hudson) Stackhouse 1797
Tubularia articulata (Hudson) Roussel 1806
Gigartina articulata (Hudson) Lamouroux 1813
Chondria articulata (Hudson) C.Agardh 1817
Gastridium articulatum (Turner) Greville 1830
Chylocladia articulata (Hudson) Greville 1833
Gastrophycus articulatus (Hudson) Link 1833

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Conferva reptans Roth 1797
Agarum reptans (Roth) Nees 1820
Chrysymenia acicularis J.Agardh 1842
Lomentaria acicularis (J.Agardh) Falkenberg 1879

General environment
This is a Marine species.

Common names

(as Lomentaria articulata (Hudson) Lyngbye)
English: Bunny Ears, Bunny-eared Bead Weed (Bunker et al. 2010).

Description
Soft, cylindrical, crimson to brownish red fronds, to 200 mm (usually much shorter). Much branched, axes constricted into bead-like portions, ramuli at nodes, often whorled. Base of creeping rhizoidal filaments.

Habitat
On rocks and stones in pools, lower intertidal and subtidal, generally distributed, frequent.

Distribution by country

Point data for Ireland and Britain

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Detailed distribution with sources
(as Fucus articulatus (Hudson) Lightfoot)
Europe: Spain (Roxas Clemente y Rubio 1807).

(as Lomentaria articulata (Hudson) Lyngbye)
Ireland: Antrim (Adams 1907, Guiry 1978, Morton 1994), Clare (Guiry 1978, De Valéra et al. 1979, Maggs 1983), Cork (Cullinane 1971, Cullinane, McCarthy & Fletcher 1975, Guiry 1978), Derry (Morton 1994), Donegal (Guiry 1978, Morton 2003), Down (Morton 1974, Guiry 1978, Morton 1994), Dublin (Guiry 1978), Galway (Guiry 1978, Maggs 1983), Kerry (Guiry 1978, Cullinane & Whelan 1983, Whelan & Cullinane 1985), Leitrim (Cullinane 1970, Guiry 1978), 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), Wicklow (Guiry 1978).

Scotland: Scotland (Marconi et al. 2011).

Europe: Adriatic (Giaccone 1978, Munda 1979), Balearic Islands (Colmeiro, M. 1868, Rodríguez y Femenías 1889, Bellón 1921, De Toni 1924, Navarro & Bellón 1945, Ribera Siguán & Gómez Garreta 1984), Britain (Newton 1931, Irvine 1983, Hardy & Guiry 2003), Corsica (Boudouresque & Perret 1977), Faroe Islands (Irvine 1982, Nielsen & Gunnarsson 2001), France (Feldmann 1954, Coppejans 1995, Dizerbo & Herpe 2007, Loiseaux-de Goër & Noailles 2008, Zubia et al. 2009, Anon. 2012), Greece (Tsekos & Haritonidis 1977, Athanasiadis 1987), Ireland (Adams 1907, Cotton 1912, Cotton 1913, Cullinane 1971, Guiry 1978, De Valéra et al. 1979, Maggs 1983, Irvine 1983, Whelan & Cullinane 1985, Morton 1994, Guiry 2012), Italy (Giaccone 1969, Furnari, Cormaci & Serio 1999, Rindi, Sartoni & Cinelli 2002, Furnari et al. 2003, Furnari et al. 2003, Furnari et al. 2003, Furnari et al. 2003), Norway (Rueness 1997), Portugal (Ardré 1970, Araujo, R., I. Bárbara, I. Sousa-Pinto & V. Quintino (2005), Araujo, R., I. Bárbara, I. Sousa-Pinto & V. Quintino (2005), Araújo et al. 2006, Araujo et al. 2009, Araújo, Bárbara & Sousa-Pinto in press), Sardinia (Furnari et al. 2003), Scandinavia (Athanasiadis 1996), Spain (Lázaro Ibiza 1889, Sauvageau 1897, Hamel 1928, Miranda 1931, Seoane-Camba 1957, Ardré 1957, Fischer-Piette, C. & Seoane Camba, J. (1962), Seoane-Camba 1965, Ballesteros 1981, Ballesteros & Romero 1982, Pérez-Cirera & Maldonado 1982, Gallardo & Pérez-Cirera 1982, Fernández & Niell 1982, Fernández, Niell & Anadón 1983, Gallardo et al. 1985, Anadón & Fernández 1986, Silva & Fernández 1988, Fernández & Menéndez 1991, Granja, Cremades & Barbara 1992, Barbara, Cremades & López Rodriguez 1992, Guillermes, Cremades & Pérez-Cirera 1994, Bárbara, Cremades & Pérez-Cirera 1995, Conde et al. 1996, Bárbara & Cremades 1996, Veiga, Cremades & Bárbara 1998, Peña & Bárbara 2002, Valenzuela Miranda 2002, Gorostiaga et al., 2004, Bárbara et al. 2005, Diaz-Tapia & Bárbara 2005, Martínez-Gil et al. 2007, Peña & Bárbara 2008, Peña & Bárbara 2010, Cires Rodriguez & Cuesta Moliner 2010, Diaz Tapia et al. 2011), Turkey (Europe) (Cirik, Zeybeck, Aysel & Cirik 1990, Taskin et al. 2008 ).

Atlantic Islands: Azores (Tittley & Neto 1994, Neto 1994), Canary Islands (Børgesen 1929, Gil-Rodríguez & Afonso-Carrillo 1980, Haroun et al. 2002, Gil-Rodríguez et al. 2003, John et al. 2004, Anon 2011), Madeira (Levring 1974, Neto, Cravo & Haroun 2001, Haroun et al. 2002, John et al. 2004), Salvage Islands (Audiffred & Weisscher 1984, John et al. 2004).

Africa: Cameroon (John, Lawson & Ameka, 2003, John et al. 2004), Morocco (Dangeard 1949), Tunisia (Meñez & Mathieson 1981, Ben Maiz, Boudouresque & Quahchi 1987), Western Sahara (John et al. 2004).

South-west Asia: India (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Sahoo et al. 2001), Turkey (Asia) (Taskin et al. 2008 ).

South-east Asia: Philippines (Silva, Meñez & Moe 1987).

(as Chylocladia articulata (Hudson) Greville)
Ireland: Antrim (Dickie 1871), Cork (Renouf 1931).

(as Lomentaria acicularis (J.Agardh) Falkenberg)
Europe: Italy (Giaccone 1969).

Taxonomic notes
Womersley (1998: 398) cites this as a synonym of Ceramium excellens J. Agardh 1894. - (13 Jan 2009) - Wendy Guiry

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.

Funk, G. (1955). Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Meeresalgen von Neapel: Zugleich mikrophotographischer Atlas. Pubblicazioni della Stazione Zoologica di Napoli 25(Suppl.): i-x , 1- 178, 36 figs.

Irvine, L.M. & Dixon, P.S. (1982). The typification of Hudson's algae: a taxonomic and nomenclatural reappraisal. Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Bot) 10: 91-105.

Irvine, L.M. & Guiry, M.D. (1983). Rhodymeniales. In: Seaweeds of the British Isles. Volume 1. Rhodophyta. Part 2A. Cryptonemiales (sensu stricto), Palmariales, Rhodymeniales. (Irvine, L.M. Eds), pp. 77-98. London: British Museum (Natural History).

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

Rodríguez-Prieto, C., Ballesteros, E., Boisset, F. & Afonso-Carrillo, J. (2013). Guía de las macroalgas y fanerógamas marinas del Mediterráneo occidental. pp. [1]-656. Barcelona: Ediciones Omega, S.A..

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.

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

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=Lomentaria&Species=articulata

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 31 March 1996 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 07 May 2013 by M.D. Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 8264 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.)

Haugen, I.N. (1968). Nye funn av Lomentaria articulata (Huds.) Lyngb. i Norge. Blyttia 26: 140-145.

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M.D. 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 19 June 2013.

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