Acrochaetium macula (Rosenvinge) G.Hamel

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 macula (Rosenvinge) G.Hamel 1927: 97

Original publication: Hamel, G.. (1927). Recherches sur les genres Acrochaetium Naeg. et Rhodochorton Naeg. Published Ph.D. thesis. pp. i-v, 1-117. Saint-Lô: Imprimerie R. Jaqueline, rue des Images, 23.
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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 macula Rosenvinge

Type information
Type locality: Gjenild Klint, Kattegat, Denmark (Womersley 1994: 63). Holotype: C (Womersley 1994: 63).

Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), spot, blotch, mesh of network.

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Chantransia macula Rosenvinge 1909
Rhodochorton macula (Rosenvinge) Rosenvinge 1935
Chromastrum macula (Rosenvinge) Papenfuss 1945
Kylinia macula (Rosenvinge) Papenfuss 1947
Colaconema maculum (Rosenvinge) Woelkerling 1971
Audouinella macula (Rosenvinge) Garbary 1979

General environment
This is a marine species.

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Acrochaetium macula (Rosenvinge) G.Hamel)
Europe: Baltic Sea (Nielsen et al. 1995), Scandinavia (Athanasiadis 1996).

(as Audouinella macula (Rosenvinge) Garbary)
Australia and New Zealand: South Australia (Womersley 1994), Victoria (Womersley 1994).

Key references
Garbary, D.J. (1987). The Acrochaetiaceae (Rhodophyta): an annotated bibliography. Bibliotheca Phycologica 77: 1-267, 2 tables.

Zeng, C. (Tseng, C.K.), Luan, R., Chen, Z. & Li, W. (2005). Flora algarum marinarum sinicarum Tomus II Rhodophyta No. II Acrochaetiales Nemaliales Bonnemaisoniales. pp. [i-vii], i-xxiii, 1-180 , pls I-VIII. Beijing: Science Press.

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

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=macula

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 30 November 1998 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 29 May 2009 by M.D. Guiry

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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 22 May 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:69753