Rhodymenia ardissonei (Kuntze) Feldmann

Publication details
Rhodymenia ardissonei (Kuntze) Feldmann 1937: 274

Original publication: Feldmann, J. (1937). Les algues marines de la côte des Albères. I-III. Cyanophycées, Chlorophycées, Phaéophycées. Revue Algologique 9: 141(bis)-148(bis); 149-335, 67 figs, Plates 8-17.

Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Rhodymenia is Rhodymenia palmetta (Stackhouse) Greville.

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

Basionym
Palmaria ardissonei Kuntze

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Palmaria ardissonei Kuntze 1891

General environment
This is a marine species.

Type information
Type locality: Porto Maurizio, Ligurian Sea, Italy

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Rhodymenia ardissonei (Kuntze) Feldmann)
Ireland: Donegal (Morton 2003).

Europe: Adriatic (Giaccone 1978, Curiel et al.1998), Balearic Islands (Dao 1957, Seoane-Camba 1969, Ribera Siguán 1983, Ribera Siguán & Gómez Garreta 1984, Ribera, Coloreu, Rodriguez Prieto & Ballesteros 1997), Britain (Hardy & Guiry 2003), Corsica (Boudouresque & Perret 1977, Coppejans 1979, Verlaque 1984, Vergés et al 2005), France (Feldmann & Magne 1964, Augier, Boudouresque & Laborel 1971, Dizerbo & Herpe 2007, Loiseaux-de Goër & Noailles 2008), Greece (Diannelidis 1953, Gerloff & Geissler 1974, Athanasiadis 1987, Tsirika & Haritonidis 2005), Ireland (Hardy & Guiry 2003), Italy (Giaccone 1969, Cinelli 1971, Edwards et al. 1975, Cinelli et al. 1976, Cecere et al. 1996, Furnari, Cormaci & Serio 1999, Rindi, Sartoni & Cinelli 2002), Malta (Cormaci et al. 1997), Spain (Ballesteros 1981, Ballesteros & Romero 1982, Boisset & Barceló 1984, Gallardo et al. 1985, Rodriguez Prieto & Polo Alberti 1988, Soto & Conde 1989, Conde et al. 1996, Rodriguez-Prieto et al. 1997, Izquierdo 2003, Vergés et al 2005, Sánchez & Rodriguez-Prieto 2005, Morais e Silva, Lavelli & Rull Lluch 2008), Turkey (Europe) (Taskin et al. 2008 ).

Atlantic Islands: Canary Islands (Ballesteros, Sansón, Reyes, Afonso-Carrillo & Gil-Rodríguez 1992, Woelkerling et al. 1998, Haroun et al. 2002, Gil-Rodríguez et al. 2003, John et al. 2004).

Africa: Egypt (Aleem 1993), Tunisia (Ben Maiz, Boudouresque & Quahchi 1987).

South-west Asia: Israel (Einav 2007), Turkey (Asia) (Taskin et al. 2008 ).

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).

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.

Maggs, C.A. & Guiry, M.D. (1982). Notes on Irish marine algae - 5. Preliminary observations on deep water vegetation off West Donegal. Irish Naturalists' Journal 20: 357-361.

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

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.)

Izquierdo, C. (2003). Morfología, desarrollo y adaptaciones ecofisiológicas de dos poblaciones de Rhodymenia ardissonei (Rhodymeniales, Rhodophyta) de la costa catalana en relación a su distribución batimétrica. . Girona (Spain): Universitat de Girona.
Vergés, A., Izquierdo, C. & Verlaque, M. (2005). Rhodymeniocolax mediterraneus sp. nov. (Rhodymeniales, Rhodophyta), parasitic on Rhodymenia ardissonei from the western Mediterranean Sea . Phycologia 44: 510-516.
Vergés, A., Verlaque, M., Sánchez, N., Polo, Ll. & Rodriguez-Prieto, C. (2005). Morfología, anatomía y reproducción de un adelfohemiparásito de Rhodymenia ardissonei (Rhodymeniales, Rhodophyta). : XV Simposio de Botánica Criptogámica. Bilbao 2005. Libro de Resúmenes, p.73.