Acrochaetium leptonema (Rosenvinge) Børgesen

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Rhodophyta
Subphylum Eurhodophytina
Class Florideophyceae
Subclass Nemaliophycidae
Order Acrochaetiales
Family Acrochaetiaceae
Genus Acrochaetium

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Publication details
Acrochaetium leptonema (Rosenvinge) Børgesen 1915: 31

Original publication: Børgesen, F. (1915). The marine algae of the Danish West Indies. Part 3. Rhodophyceae (1). Dansk Botanisk Arkiv 3: 1-80, Figs 1-86.
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Type species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Acrochaetium is Acrochaetium secundatum (Lyngbye) Nägeli.

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

Basionym
Chantransia leptonema Rosenvinge

Type information
Type locality: Skagerrak, Denmark. (Athanasiadis 1996: 17).C?

Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), fine-threaded.

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Chantransia leptonema Rosenvinge 1909
Audouinella leptonema (Rosenvinge) Garbary 1979

General environment
This is a marine species.

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Acrochaetium leptonema (Rosenvinge) Børgesen)
Europe: Baltic Sea (Nielsen et al. 1995), Bulgaria (Dimitrova-Konaklieva 1981), France (Feldmann 1939, Feldmann & Magne 1964, Anon. 2012), Scandinavia (Athanasiadis 1996), Sweden (Kylin 1944).

Atlantic Islands: Bermuda (Taylor 1960).

North America: Alaska (Lindstrom 1977), Florida (Taylor 1960).

Western Atlantic: Trop. & Subtrop. W. Atlantic (Wynne 2011).

Africa: Tunisia (Ben Maiz, Boudouresque & Quahchi 1987).

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

(as Audouinella leptonema (Rosenvinge) Garbary)
Europe: Balearic Islands (Báez et al. 2005b), Britain (Guiry 1997), France (Báez et al 2005a, Báez et al. 2005b, Dizerbo & Herpe 2007), Italy (Rindi, Sartoni & Cinelli 2002, Furnari et al. 2003, Furnari et al. 2003, Báez et al 2005a, Báez et al. 2005b), Sardinia (Furnari et al. 2003), Spain (Gallardo et al. 1985, Soto & Conde 1989, Ballesteros 1990, Conde et al. 1996, Rodríguez-Prieto & Polo, L. 1996, Rodriguez-Prieto & Polo Albertí 1998, Báez et al 2005a, Báez et al. 2005b).

Africa: Algeria (Báez et al. 2005b), Egypt (Aleem 1993), Morocco (Báez et al. 2005b), Tunisia (Báez et al 2005a, Báez et al. 2005b).

Taxonomic notes
Garbary (1987: 101) lists this species as a synonym of Audouinella leptonema.

Key references
Dawes, C.J. & Mathieson, A.C. (2008). The seaweeds of Florida. pp. [i]- viii, [1]-591, [592], pls I-LI. Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida.

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

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=Acrochaetium&Species=leptonema

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 30 November 1998 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 19 January 2008 by M.D. Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 721 times since it was created.

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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 25 May 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:69754