Battersia arctica (Harvey) Draisma, Prud'homme & H.Kawai

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Chromista
Phylum Ochrophyta
Class Phaeophyceae
Order Sphacelariales
Family Sphacelariaceae
Genus Battersia

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Publication details
Battersia arctica (Harvey) Draisma, Prud'homme & H.Kawai 2010: 322

Original publication: Draisma, S.G.A., Prud'homme van Reine, W.F. & Kawai, H. (2010). A revised classification of the Sphacelariales (Phaeophyceae) inferred from a psbC and rbcL based phylogeny. European Journal of Phycology 45(3): 308-326.
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Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Battersia is Battersia mirabilis Reinke ex Batters.

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

Basionym
Sphacelaria arctica Harvey

Type information
Type locality: Disko ö, Greenland (Athanasiadis 1996: 195). Holotype: Lyall (s.n.); vi.1852; in tide pools. BM (Draisma, Prud'homme van Reine & Kawai 2010: 322). Notes: TCD.

Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), of or pertaining to the Arctic (Stearn 1973).

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Sphacelaria arctica Harvey 1858

General environment
This is a marine species.

Common names

(as Sphacelaria arctica Harvey)
Swedish: Ishavstofs (Tolstoy & Österlund 2003).

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Sphacelaria arctica Harvey)
Arctic: Canada (Arctic) (Lee 1980), Svalbard (Fredriksen & Kile 2012).

Europe: Baltic Sea (Nielsen et al. 1995), Faroe Islands (Irvine 1982, Nielsen & Gunnarsson 2001), Norway (Rueness 1997), Scandinavia (Athanasiadis 1996), Spitsbergen (Vinogradova 1995), Sweden (Tolstoy & Österlund 2003).

Atlantic Islands: E. Greenland (Lund 1959, Pedersen 1976).

North America: Maine (Mathieson et al. 2001), New Hampshire (Mathieson & Hehre 1986).

Asia: Kamchatka (Klochkova, Korolyova & Kusidi 2009).

(as Battersia arctica (Harvey) Draisma, Prud'homme & H.Kawai)
Arctic: Svalbard (Hop et al. 2012).

Atlantic Islands: Greenland (Pedersen 2011).

Key references
Pedersen, P.M. (2011). Grønlands havalger. pp. [1] 7-208. Copenhagen: Forlaget Epsilon.DK.

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

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=Battersia&Species=arctica

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 03 November 2010 by Wendy Guiry

Verified by: 26 March 2012 by M.D. Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 345 times since it was created.

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Citing AlgaeBase
Cite this record as:
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 23 May 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:98076