Audouinella virgatula (Harvey) P.S.Dixon
Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Rhodophyta
Subphylum Eurhodophytina
Class Florideophyceae
Subclass Nemaliophycidae
Order Acrochaetiales
Family Acrochaetiaceae
Genus Audouinella
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Publication details
Audouinella virgatula (Harvey) P.S.Dixon 1976: 590
Original publication: Parke, M. & Dixon, P.S. (1976). Check-list of British marine algae - third revision. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 56: 527-594.
Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Audouinella is Audouinella miniata Bory de Saint-Vincent.
Status of name
This name is currently regarded as a taxonomic synonym of Acrochaetium virgatulum (Harvey) Batters
Basionym
Callithamnion virgatulum Harvey
Type information
Type locality: Devonshire, England (Harvey 1833: 349). Type: On Ceramium rubrum. TCD
Synonym(s)
No synonyms are currently included in AlgaeBase.
General environment
This is a marine species.
Distribution by country
Detailed distribution with sources
(as Audouinella virgatula (Harvey) P.S.Dixon)
Ireland: Antrim (Morton 1994), Clare (De Valéra et al. 1979), Down (Morton 1994).
Europe: Balearic Islands (Rull Lluch, Gómez Garreta & Ribera Siguán 1987, Ballesteros 1992, Báez et al 2005a, Báez et al. 2005b), Britain (Dixon & Irvine 1977, Guiry 1997), France (Báez et al 2005a, Báez et al. 2005b, Dizerbo & Herpe 2007), Greece (Athanasiadis 1987), Ireland (Guiry 1978, De Valéra et al. 1979, Morton 1994), Italy (Furnari, Cormaci & Serio 1999, Rindi, Sartoni & Cinelli 2002, Furnari et al. 2003, Furnari et al. 2003, Furnari et al. 2003, Furnari et al. 2003, Báez et al 2005a, Báez et al. 2005b, Serio et al 2006), Spain (Ballesteros 1984, Gallardo et al. 1985, Soto & Conde 1989, Ballesteros 1990, Guillermes, Cremades & Pérez-Cirera 1994, Báez et al 2005a, Báez et al. 2005b).
Atlantic Islands: Canary Islands (Gil-Rodríguez & Afonso-Carrillo 1980, Price, John & Lawson 1986, Viera-Rodriguez et al. 1987), Salvage Islands (Audiffred & Weisscher 1984, Price, John & Lawson 1986).
Africa: Algeria (Báez et al 2005a, Báez et al. 2005b), Mauritania (Price, John & Lawson 1986), Morocco (Báez et al. 2005b), Tunisia (Báez et al 2005a, Báez et al. 2005b).
Source of synonymy
Batters, E.A.L. (1902). A catalogue of the British marine algae. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign 40(Supplement): 1-107.
Key references
Garbary, D.J. (1987). The Acrochaetiaceae (Rhodophyta): an annotated bibliography. Bibliotheca Phycologica 77: 1-267, 2 tables.
Serio, D., Alongi, G., Catra, M., Cormaci, M. & Furnari, G. (2006). Changes in the benthic algal flora of Linosa Island (Straits of Sicily, Mediterranean Sea). Botanica Marina 49: 135-144.
SAG Cultures
SAG Cultures may be viewed at http://sagdb.uni-goettingen.de/showstrains.php?genus=Audouinella&species=virgatula
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=Audouinella&Species=virgatula
Created: 30 November 1998 by M.D. Guiry
Verified by: 29 May 2012 by Michael Guiry
Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 405 times since it was created.
Linking to this page: http://www.algaebase.org/search/species/detail/?species_id=13753
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 24 May 2013.
Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:109145
