Lomentaria clavellosa (Turner) Gaillon

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

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Black Head, Co. Clare, Ireland; lower shore, on mussels. 28 Apr 2006. Michael Guiry. © Michael Guiry.

Black Head, Co. Clare, Ireland; vegetative apices. 28 Apr 2006. Michael Guiry. © Michael Guiry.

Spain, Galicia, Ría de Coruña; cystocarp with carpospores being discharged; 2007. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara.

Lomentaria clavellosa (Turner) Gaillon Black Head, Co. Clare, Ireland; vegetative apices

Publication details
Lomentaria clavellosa (Turner) Gaillon 1828: 367

Original publication: Gaillon, B. (1828). Résumé méthodique des classifications des Thalassiophytes. Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles [Levrault] 53: 350-406, Tables 1-3.

Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Lomentaria is Lomentaria articulata (Hudson) Lyngbye.

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

Basionym
Fucus clavellosus Turner

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Fucus clavellosus Turner 1802
Gigartina clavellosa (Turner) J.V.Lamouroux 1813
Capillaria clavellosa (Turner) Stackhouse 1816
Gastridium clavellosum (Turner) Lyngbye 1819
Chondria clavellosa (Turner) C.Agardh 1822
Gastrophycus clavellosus (Turner) Link 1833
Chylocladia clavellosa (Turner) Areschoug 1838
Chrysymenia clavellosa (Lightfoot ex Turner) J.Agardh 1842
Chondrothamnion clavellosum (Turner) Kützing 1843

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Lomentaria clavellosa var. sedifolia Harvey
Fucus clavellosus var. sedifolius Turner 1802
Gastridium purpurascens Lyngbye 1819
Chondria clavellosa var. lyngbyei C.Agardh 1822
Chylocladia clavellosa var. sedifolia (Turner) Greville 1833
Chylocladia clavellosa var. sedifolia J.Agardh 1852
Lomentaria sedifolia (Turner) Strömfelt ex Foslie 1894

General environment
This is a marine species.

Description
Soft, slightly flattened, bright pinkish-red fronds, to 400 mm high. Main axis usually with numerous, typically distichous branches (sometimes only in apical tufts), ultimate branchlets with spindle-shaped ramuli, no part of frond showing obvious constrictions.

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

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Lomentaria clavellosa var. sedifolia Harvey)
Europe: Britain (Newton 1931).

(as Lomentaria clavellosa (Turner) Gaillon)
Ireland: Antrim (Adams 1907, Guiry 1978, Morton 1994), Clare (Pybus 1977, Guiry 1978, De Valéra et al. 1979, Maggs 1983), Cork (Cullinane 1971, Guiry 1978, Cullinane & Whelan 1983), Derry (Morton 1994), Donegal (Guiry 1978, Morton 2003), Down (Morton 1994), Dublin (Guiry 1978), Galway (Guiry 1978, Maggs 1983), Kerry (Cullinane & Whelan 1983, Whelan & Cullinane 1985), Mayo (Cotton 1912, Guiry 1978), Waterford (Guiry 1977, Guiry 1978), Wexford (Cotton 1913, Norton 1970, Guiry 1978).

Europe: Adriatic (Giaccone 1978, Munda 1979), Balearic Islands (Bellón 1921, Ribera Siguán 1983, Ribera Siguán & Gómez Garreta 1984), Baltic Sea (Nielsen et al. 1995), Britain (Newton 1931, Irvine 1983, Hardy & Guiry 2003), Corsica (Boudouresque & Perret 1977), Faroes (Irvine 1982, Nielsen & Gunnarsson 2001), France (Feldmann 1954, Verlaque 2001, Dizerbo & Herpe 2007, Loiseaux-de Goër & Noailles 2008, Zubia et al. 2009), Greece (Gerloff & Geissler 1974, Dimitrova-Konaklieva 1981, Athanasiadis 1987), Helgoland (Bartsch & Kuhlenkamp 2000), Iceland (Caram & Jónsson 1972), Ireland (Adams 1907, Cotton 1912, Cotton 1913, Cullinane 1971, Pybus 1977, Guiry 1977, Guiry 1978, De Valéra et al. 1979, Maggs 1983, Irvine 1983, Whelan & Cullinane 1985, Morton 1994), Italy (Funk 1961, Giaccone 1969, Furnari, Cormaci & Serio 1999, Furnari et al. 2003, Furnari et al. 2003, Furnari et al. 2003, Furnari et al. 2003), Netherlands (Stegenga, Kaaremans & Simons 2007), Norway (Rueness 1997), Portugal (Ardré 1970, Araújo et al., 2003, Araujo et al. 2009, Araújo, Bárbara & Sousa-Pinto in press), Romania (Caraus 2002), Sardinia (Furnari et al. 2003), Scandinavia (Athanasiadis 1996), Spain (Ballesteros 1981, Ballesteros & Romero 1982, Boisset & Barceló 1984, Gallardo et al. 1985, Rodriguez Prieto & Polo Alberti 1988, Granja, Cremades & Barbara 1992, Conde et al. 1996, Bárbara & Cremades 1996, Rodriguez-Prieto et al. 1997, Veiga, Cremades & Bárbara 1998, Peña & Bárbara 2002, Valenzuela Miranda 2002, Gorostiaga et al., 2004, Bárbara et al. 2005, Diaz-Tapia & Bárbara 2005), Sweden (Kylin 1907, Svedelius 1937, Kylin 1944), Turkey (Europe) (Cirik, Zeybeck, Aysel & Cirik 1990, Taskin et al. 2008 ).

Atlantic Islands: Madeira (Haroun et al. 2002).

North America: New Hampshire (Mathieson & Hehre 1986).

South America: Brazil (Taylor 1930 ), Falkland Islands (Papenfuss 1964).

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

(as Chylocladia clavellosa (Turner) Areschoug)
Ireland: Antrim (Drummond 1837).

Europe: Ireland (Drummond 1837), Turkey (Europe) (Güven & Öztig 1971).

South America: Falkland Islands (Agardh 1876).

(as Chrysymenia clavellosa (Lightfoot ex Turner) J.Agardh)
Ireland: Dublin (Sanders 1860).

Europe: Ireland (Sanders 1860).

Key references
Braune, W. (2008). Meeresalgen. Ein Farbbildführer zu den verbreiteten benthischen Grün- Braun- und Rotalgen der Weltmeere. pp. [1]-596, 266 pls. Ruggell: A.R.G. Gantner Verlag.

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.

Papenfuss, G.F. (1964). Catalogue and bibliography of Antarctic and Sub-Antarctic benthic marine algae. In: Bibliography of the Antarctic Seas. (Lee, M.O. Eds) Vol.1, pp. 1-76. Washington D.C.: American Geophysical Union.

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences
No sequences have been found on the NCBI site.

Created: 31 March 1996 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 20 November 2008 by M.D. Guiry

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References
(Please note: only references with the binomials in the title are included. The information is from the Literature database.)

Svedelius, N. (1937). The apomeiotic tetrad division in Lomentaria rosea in comparison with the normal development in Lomentaria clavellosa. A new type of life history among the Rhodophyceae. Symbolae Botanicae Upsalienses 2(2): 1-54.
Wilce, R.T. & Lee, R.W. (1964). Lomentaria clavellosa in North America. Botanica Marina 6: 251-258.