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Lomentaria clavellosa (Lightfoot ex Turner) Gaillon

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

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Barrañán, Galicia, Spain, 2011. 08 Nov 2011. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

Spain, Galicia, Ría de Coruña; cystocarp with carpospores being discharged; 2007. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

Black Head, Co. Clare, Ireland; vegetative apices. 28 Apr 2006. Michael Guiry. © Michael Guiry (mike.guiry@nuigalway.ie).

Black Head, Co. Clare, Ireland; lower shore, on mussels. 28 Apr 2006. Michael Guiry. © Michael Guiry (mike.guiry@nuigalway.ie).

Lomentaria clavellosa (Lightfoot ex Turner) Gaillon Spain, Galicia, Ría de Coruña; cystocarp with carpospores being discharged; 2007

Publication details
Lomentaria clavellosa (Lightfoot ex 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.
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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 Lightfoot ex Turner

Type information
Syntype localities: Habitat apud Bancaster in Norfolcia: inter rejectaments maris apud Yarmouth frequens [Bancaster and Yarmouth, Norfolk, England] (Turner 1802: 133).

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Fucus clavellosus Lightfoot ex 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.

Common names

(as Lomentaria clavellosa (Lightfoot ex Turner) Gaillon)
English: Club Bead-weed, Feathery Tube Weed (Bunker et al. 2010).

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.

Distribution by country

Point data for Ireland and Britain

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

(as Lomentaria clavellosa (Lightfoot ex 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), Bulgaria (Dimitrova-Konaklieva 1981, Berov et al. 2012), Corsica (Boudouresque & Perret 1977), Faroe Islands (Irvine 1982, Nielsen & Gunnarsson 2001), France (Feldmann 1954, Verlaque 2001, Dizerbo & Herpe 2007, Loiseaux-de Goër & Noailles 2008, Zubia et al. 2009, Anon. 2012), Greece (Gerloff & Geissler 1974, Athanasiadis 1987), Helgoland (Bartsch & Kuhlenkamp 2000), 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, Guiry 2012), 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, Bárbara et al. 2006, Araujo et al. 2009, Araújo, Bárbara & Sousa-Pinto in press), Romania (Caraus 2002, Caraus 2012), 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, Barbara, Cremades & López Rodriguez 1992, Bárbara, Cremades & Pérez-Cirera 1995, Conde et al. 1996, Bárbara & Cremades 1996, Rodriguez-Prieto et al. 1997, Cremades, Bárbara, Granja & Veiga 1997, Veiga, Cremades & Bárbara 1998, Peña & Bárbara 2002, Valenzuela Miranda 2002, Gorostiaga et al., 2004, Bárbara et al. 2005, Diaz-Tapia & Bárbara 2005, Peña & Bárbara 2006, Díaz et al 2008, Peña & Bárbara 2008, Peña & Bárbara 2010, Cires Rodriguez & Cuesta Moliner 2010), Sweden (Kylin 1907, Svedelius 1937, Kylin 1944), Turkey (Europe) (Cirik, Zeybeck, Aysel & Cirik 1990, Taskin et al. 2008 ).

Atlantic Islands: Iceland (Caram & Jónsson 1972), Madeira (Haroun et al. 2002).

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

South America: Argentina (Boraso & Zaixso 2011), 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
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. & 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.

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..

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

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=clavellosa

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 3160 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.)

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.

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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 24 May 2013.

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