Ectocarpus confervoides Le Jolis
Publication details
Ectocarpus confervoides Le Jolis 1863: 75
Original publication: Le Jolis, A. (1863). Liste des algues marines de Cherbourg. Mémoires de la Société Impériale des Sciences Naturelles de Cherbourg 10: 5-168, pls I-IV.
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Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Ectocarpus is Ectocarpus siliculosus (Dillwyn) Lyngbye.
Status of name
This name is currently regarded as a taxonomic synonym of Ectocarpus siliculosus (Dillwyn) Lyngbye
Origin of species name
Compound (Latin), resembling the genus Conferva.
Synonym(s)
No synonyms are currently included in AlgaeBase.
General environment
This is a marine species.
Common names
(as Ectocarpus confervoides Le Jolis)
Japanese: Kenashi-shiwomidoro (Tokida 1954).
Distribution by country
Detailed distribution with sources
(as Ectocarpus confervoides Le Jolis)
Arctic: Canada (Arctic) (Taylor 1957).
Ireland: Mayo (Cotton 1912).
Europe: Balearic Islands (), Britain (Newton 1931), Bulgaria (Dimitrova-Konaklieva 1981), Corsica (Boudouresque & Perret 1977), France (Feldmann 1937, Feldmann 1954, Ben Maiz, Boudouresque, Lauret & Riouall 1988, Coppejans 1995, Dizerbo & Herpe 2007), Greece (Diapoulis, Haritonidis & Koussouris 1986), Ireland (Cotton 1912), Italy (Giaccone 1969, Feoli & Bressan 1972), Portugal (De Mesquita Rodrigues 1963), Romania (Caraus 2002, Caraus 2012), Spain (Hamel 1928, Seoane-Camba 1965, Barcelo & Seoane 1982), Spitsbergen (Vinogradova 1995), Sweden (Kylin 1907, Kylin 1947), Turkey (Europe) (Güven & Öztig 1971, Cirik, Zeybeck, Aysel & Cirik 1990).
Atlantic Islands: Bermuda (Taylor 1957, Taylor 1960), Canary Islands (Børgesen 1926), E. Greenland (Lund 1959), Madeira (Levring 1974).
North America: Alaska (Lindstrom 1977), Florida (Taylor 1957, Taylor 1960), New Jersey (Taylor 1957), Newfoundland (Taylor 1957), North Carolina (Taylor 1957, Taylor 1960), Quebec (Taylor 1957), Texas (Taylor 1960).
Caribbean Islands: Lesser Antilles (Taylor 1969).
South America: Brazil (Taylor 1930, Taylor 1960), Chile (Santelices 1989, Ramírez & Santelices 1991, Hoffmann & Santelices 1997).
Africa: Morocco (Dangeard 1949), Tunisia (Ben Maiz, Boudouresque & Quahchi 1987).
South-west Asia: Israel (Nemlich & Danin 1964).
Asia: China (Tseng 1984, Zeng 2009), Russia (Perestenko 1980).
Antarctic and the subantarctic islands: Antarctica/Subantarctic Islands (Papenfuss 1964).
Nomenclatural notes
Womersley (1987) cites the authority for this name as (Roth) Le Jolis, but Ceramium confervoides Roth (1797) was superfluous and therefore illegitimate at the time of publication; Ectocarpus confervoides Le Jolis is thus treated here as a new name.
Source of synonymy
Womersley, H.B.S. (1987). The marine benthic flora of southern Australia. Part II. pp. 481, 169 figs, 1 table, 8 plates, 4 maps. Adelaide: South Australian Government Printing Division.
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.
SAG Cultures
SAG Cultures may be viewed at http://sagdb.uni-goettingen.de/showstrains.php?genus=Ectocarpus&species=confervoides
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=Ectocarpus&Species=confervoides
Created: 30 November 1998 by M.D. Guiry
Verified by: 21 July 2011 by M.D. Guiry
Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 1954 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.)
Sauvageau, C. (1896). Sur la nature des copanges en chapelet de Ectocarpus confervoides. Journal de Botanique [Morot] 10: 140-146.
Linking to this page: http://www.algaebase.org/search/species/detail/?species_id=13910
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 22 May 2013.
Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:100054
