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Lomentaria orcadensis (Harvey) F.S.Collins

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

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Lomentaria orcadensis (Harvey) F.S.Collins Spain

Publication details
Lomentaria orcadensis (Harvey) F.S.Collins in W.R. Taylor 1937: 227

Original publication: Taylor, W.R. (1937). Notes on North Atlantic marine algae. I. Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science 22: 225-233.

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
Chrysymenia orcadensis Harvey

Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), pertaining to the Orkney Islands off northern Scotland (Stearn 1973).

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Lomentaria rosea var. orcadensis (Harvey) Harvey
Chrysymenia orcadensis Harvey 1849
Chrysymenia rosea var. orcadensis (Harvey) Harvey 1850

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Chrysymenia rosea Harvey 1850
Lomentaria rosea (Harvey) Thuret 1863
Chylocladia rosea (Harvey) J.E.Gray 1864

General environment
This is a marine species.

Common names

(as Lomentaria orcadensis (Harvey) F.S.Collins)
English: Orkney Weed, Orkney Bead Weed (Bunker et al. 2010).

Description
Compressed crimson frond, to 40 mm (usually much smaller). Somewhat ovate, with flattened lateral branches distally, arising from creeping, narrowly cylindrical stolons. Main fronds and branches with narrow bases and blunt apices, hollow, with consticted nodes.

Habitat
On rock and Laminaria hyperborea holdfasts, lower intertidal pools and subtidal, on exposed shores, widely distributed, probably frequent but often overlooked.

Distribution by country

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

(as Lomentaria rosea (Harvey) Thuret)
Europe: Britain (Newton 1931), France (Bárbara & Díaz Tapia 2012), Spain (Miranda 1934), Sweden (Kylin 1907, Svedelius 1937, Kylin 1944).

Asia: Japan (Segawa 1981).

(as Chylocladia rosea (Harvey) J.E.Gray)
Europe: Spain (Miranda 1934).

(as Lomentaria orcadensis (Harvey) F.S.Collins)
Ireland: Antrim (Morton 1978, Morton 1994), Cork (Guiry 1978, Morton 1978, Whelan & Cullinane 1979, Cullinane & Whelan 1983), Derry (Morton 1994), Donegal (Maggs & Guiry 1982, Morton 2003), Down (Morton 1994), Galway (De Valéra et al. 1979), Kerry (Whelan & Cullinane 1979, Cullinane & Whelan 1983, Cullinane & Whelan 1984, Whelan & Cullinane 1985), Waterford (Guiry 1977, Guiry 1978, Morton 1978), Wexford (Norton 1970, Guiry 1978, Morton 1978).

Europe: Baltic Sea (Nielsen et al. 1995), Britain (Irvine 1983, Hardy & Guiry 2003), Faroe Islands (Irvine 1982, Nielsen & Gunnarsson 2001), France (Feldmann 1954, Bouxin & Dizerbo 1971, Coppejans 1995, Valenzuela Miranda 2005, Dizerbo & Herpe 2007, Dizerbo & Herpe 2007, Anon. 2012, Bárbara & Díaz Tapia 2012), Helgoland (Bartsch & Kuhlenkamp 2000), Ireland (Guiry 1977, Guiry 1978, De Valéra et al. 1979, Irvine 1983, Whelan & Cullinane 1985, Morton 1994, Guiry 2012), Norway (Rueness 1997), Portugal (Ardré 1970, Bárbara et al. 2006, Araujo et al. 2009, Bárbara et al. 2012), Scandinavia (Athanasiadis 1996), Spain (López Rodríguez & Cremades & Bárbara 1991, Granja, Cremades & Barbara 1992, Guillermes, Cremades & Pérez-Cirera 1994, Bárbara, Cremades & Pérez-Cirera 1995, Bárbara & Cremades 1996, Veiga, Cremades & Bárbara 1998, Peña & Bárbara 2002, Valenzuela Miranda 2002, Gorostiaga et al., 2004, Bárbara et al. 2005, Bárbara et al. 2006, Cires Rodriguez & Cuesta Moliner 2010).

Atlantic Islands: Iceland (Caram & Jónsson 1972).

North America: Maine (Mathieson et al. 2001, Dalen & Saunders 2007), New Hampshire (Mathieson & Hehre 1986), North Carolina (Schneider & Searles 1991).

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

Key references
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).

Taylor, W.R. (1937). Marine algae of the northeastern coast of North America. pp. ix + 427. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press.

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

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=orcadensis

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 31 March 1996 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 18 April 2009 by M.D. Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 2316 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.)

Barbara, I. & Veiga, A.J. (1996). The discovery of the female gametophyte and carposphorophyte in Lomentaria orcadensis (Rhodymeniales, Rhodophyta). Cryptogamie, Algologie 17: 139-141.
Bird, C.J. (1978). Investigations of the marine algae of Nova Scotia XV. Lomentaria orcadensis (Rhodophyta, Champiaceae). Proc. N. S. Acad. Sci. 28: 189-190.
Foran, C.F. & Guiry, M.D. (1983). The life history in culture of isolates of Lomentaria orcadensis (Rhodophyta) from Ireland and Scotland. British Phycological Journal 18: 204.
Guiry, M.D. (1971). Lomentaria orcadensis (Harv.) Taylor from Bantry Bay, Co. Cork. Irish Naturalists' Journal 17: 58-59.
Kuebler, J.E., Davison, I.R. & Yarish, C. (1991). Photosynthetic adaptation to temperature in the red algae Lomentaria baileyana and Lomentaria orcadensis. British Phycological Journal 26: 9-19.

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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.

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