Caulerpa mexicana Sonder ex Kützing

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Chlorophyta
Class Ulvophyceae
Order Bryopsidales
Family Caulerpaceae
Genus Caulerpa

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1. Habit. 2. Upper subtidal. Nhatrang Bay, Vietnam).. 29 Feb 2012. Eduard and Tamara Titlyanova (etitlyanov@mail.ru). © Eduard and Tamara Titlyanova (etitlyanov@mail.ru).

Tanzania. Katrin Østerlund. © Katrin Oesterlund (Katrin.Osterlund@uadm.uu.se). From: Oliveira, E., Österlund, K. & Mtolera, M.S.P. (2005). Marine Plants of Tanzania. A field guide to the seaweeds and seagrasses. pp. 267, Numerous coloured illustrations and line drawings. Stockholm: Botany Department, Stockholm University.

KwaZulu-Natal. Olivier de Clerck. © Olivier De Clerck (odclerck@gmail.com). From: De Clerck, O., Bolton, J.J., Anderson, R.J. & Coppejans, E. (2005). Guide to the seaweeds of KwaZulu-Natal. Scripta Botanica Belgica 33: 1-294. Purchase information.

Coral Bay, Western Australia. John Huisman. © John Huisman (j.huisman@murdoch.edu.au). From: Huisman, J.M. (2000). Marine Plants of Australia. University of Western Australia Press, Nedlands, Western Australia..

Caulerpa mexicana Sonder ex Kützing 1. Habit. 2. Upper subtidal. Nhatrang Bay, Vietnam).

Publication details
Caulerpa mexicana Sonder ex Kützing 1849: 496

Original publication: Kützing, F.T. (1849). Species algarum. pp. [i]-vi, [1]-922. Lipsiae [Leipzig]: F.A. Brockhaus.
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Type species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Caulerpa is Caulerpa prolifera (Forsskål) J.V.Lamouroux.

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

Origin of species name
Adjective A (Latin), pertaining to Mexico (Stearn 1992).

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Caulerpa crassifolia f. mexicana (Sonder ex Kützing) J.Agardh 1873
Caulerpa pinnata f. mexicana (Sonder ex Kützing) Weber-van Bosse 1898

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Caulerpa harveyana
Caulerpa taxifolia var. crassifolia C.Agardh 1823
Caulerpa crassifolia (C.Agardh) J.Agardh 1873

General environment
This is a Marine species.

Distribution by country

Type information
Type locality: Atlantic Coast of Mexico (Lipkin & Silva 2002: 63). Type: L (de Bolós & Masclans 1955: 63).

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Caulerpa mexicana Sonder ex Kützing)
Atlantic Islands: Bermuda (Taylor 1960, Maloney et al. 2011 ), Canary Islands (Haroun Trabaue et al. 1985, Guadalupe et al. 1995, Olsen, Valero, Meusnier, Boele-Bos & Stam 1998, Haroun et al. 2002, Gil-Rodríguez et al. 2003, John et al. 2004, Hernández-González et al. 2004a, Hernández-González et al. 2004b, Moreira-Reyes, Soler-Onís & Gil-Rodríguez 2005, Sangil, Sansón & Afonso-Carillo 2005, Anon 2011), Cape Verde Islands (Prud'homme van Reine, Haroun & Kostermans 2005).

North America: Florida (Taylor 1960, Dawes 1974, Olsen, Valero, Meusnier, Boele-Bos & Stam 1998, Famà, Wysor, Kooistra & Zuccarello 2002, Littler, Littler & Hanisak 2008, Fagerberg et al. 2010), Mexico (Taylor 1960, Robledo & Freile-Pelegrín 2005), Texas (Wynne 2009).

Central America: Belize (Taylor 1960, Norris & Bucher 1982, Littler & Littler 1997), México (Pacific) (Pedroche et al. 2005), Panama (Olsen, Valero, Meusnier, Boele-Bos & Stam 1998 , Wysor & Kooistra 2003).

Caribbean Islands: Bahamas (Taylor 1960), Barbados (Taylor 1960, Taylor 1969), Caicos Islands (Taylor 1960), Caribbean (Littler & Littler 2000), Cayman Islands (Taylor 1960), Cuba (Taylor 1960, Famà, Wysor, Kooistra & Zuccarello 2002, Cabrera, Moreira & Suárez 2004, Suárez 2005), Hispaniola (Taylor 1960), Jamaica (Taylor 1960), Lesser Antilles (Taylor 1960, Taylor 1969), Martinique (Rodríguez-Prieto, Michanek & Ivon 1999), Puerto Rico (Taylor 1960), Tobago (Taylor 1960), Trinidad & Tobago (Duncan & Lee Lum 2006), Virgin Islands (Taylor 1960).

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

South America: Brazil (Taylor 1960, Oliveira Filho 1977, Villaca et al. 2010, Moura 2010), Colombia (Taylor 1960), Guyana (Taylor 1960), Venezuela (Taylor 1960, Ganesan 1990).

Africa: Egypt (Papenfuss 1968, Famà, Wysor, Kooistra & Zuccarello 2002), Eritrea (Lipkin & Silva 2002), Kenya (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Bolton, Oyieke & Gwanda 2007), Madagascar (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Mauritania (John et al. 2004), Mauritius (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Mozambique (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Somalia (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), South Africa (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Coppejans, Leliaert & Verbruggen 2005), Tanzania (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Oliveira, Österlund & Mtolera 2005).

Indian Ocean Islands: Aldabra Islands (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Cargados Carajos (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Maldives (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Seychelles (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996).

South-west Asia: India (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Sahoo et al. 2001), Iran (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Israel (Olsen, Valero, Meusnier, Boele-Bos & Stam 1998, Hoffman 2004, Einav 2007, Galil 2007 ), Levant states (Gallardo et al. 1993), Oman (Wynne & Jupp 1998), Saudi Arabia (Papenfuss 1968), Southeast Arabian coast (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Sri Lanka (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Yemen (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996).

South-east Asia: Indonesia (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Malaysia (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Philippines (Silva, Meñez & Moe 1987), Singapore (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Pham et al. 2011), Thailand (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Hodgson et al. 2004), Vietnam (Hodgson et al. 2004, Tien 2007, Titlyanov & Titlyanov 2012).

Australia and New Zealand: Australia (Huisman 2000), Houtman Abrolhos (Huisman 1997), Papua New Guinea (Coppejans et al. 2001, Littler & Littler 2003), Western Australia (Huisman & Borowitzka 2003).

Pacific Islands: Federated States of Micronesia (Lobban & Tsuda 2003), Fiji (N'Yeurt, South & Keats 1996).

(as Caulerpa crassifolia (C.Agardh) J.Agardh)
Caribbean Islands: Trinidad & Tobago (Duncan & Lee Lum 2006).

Africa: Mauritius (Børgesen 1952).

South-west Asia: Israel (Nemlich & Danin 1964).

Pacific Islands: Marshall Islands (Taylor 1950).

(as Caulerpa crassifolia f. mexicana (Sonder ex Kützing) J.Agardh)
South America: Brazil (Taylor 1930).

Taxonomic notes
According to Silva et al. (1996) the name Caulerpa pinnata has been misapplied to this species by Greville (1853a: 1-2, pl. I: upper figs. 1,2), Greville (1853b: 197-198, pl. III: upper figs. 1,2) and Weber-van Bosse (1898: 290, pl. XXIV: fig. 1).

Key references
Dawes, C.J. & Mathieson, A.C. (2008). The seaweeds of Florida. pp. [i]- viii, [1]-591, [592], pls I-LI. Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida.

Famá, P., Wysor, B., Kooistra, W.H.C.F. & Zuccarello, G.C. (2002). Molecular phylogeny of the genus Caulerpa (Caulerpales, Chlorophyta) inferred from chloroplast tufA gene. Journal of Phycology 38: 1040-1050.

Hodgson, L.M. Pham Huu Tri, Lewmanomont, K. & McDermid, K.J. (2004). Annotated checklist of species of Caulerpa and Caulerpella (Bryopsidales, Caulerpaceae) from Vietnam, Thailand and the Hawaiian Islands. In: Taxonomy of Economic Seaweeds with reference to the Pacific and other locations Volume IX. (Abbott, I.A. & McDermid, K.J. Eds) Vol.9, pp. 21-38.

Olsen, J.L., Valero, M., Meusnier, I., Boele-Bos, S. & Stam, W.T. (1998). Mediterranean Caulerpa taxifolia and C. mexicana (Chlorophyta) are not conspecific. Journal of Phycology 34: 850-856, 2 figs, 2 tables.

Pedroche, F.F., Silva, P.C., Aguilar-Rosas, L.E., Dreckmann, K.M. & Aguilar-Rosas, R. (2005). Catálogo de las algas marinas bentónicas del Pacífico de México. I. Chlorophycota. pp. i-viii, 17-146. Ensenada, México: Universidad Autónoma de Baja California.

Silva, P.C., Basson, P.W. & Moe, R.L. (1996). Catalogue of the benthic marine algae of the Indian Ocean. University of California Publications in Botany 79: 1-1259.

Stam, W.T., Olsen, J.L., Zaleski, S.F., Murray, S.N., Brown, K.R. & Walters, L.J. (2006). A forensic and phylogenetic survey of Caulerpa species (Caulerpales, Chlorophyta) from the Florida coast, local aquarium shops, and e-commerce: establishing a proactive baseline for early detection. Journal of Phycology 42: 1113-1124.

Titlyanov, E.A. & Titlyanov, T.V. (2012). Marine plants of the Asian Pacific Region countries, their use and cultivation. pp. [1]-376, many col. photographs. Vladivostok: Dalnauka & A.V. Zhirmunsky Institute of Marine Biology Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

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

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=Caulerpa&Species=mexicana

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 12 December 1997 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 26 February 2013 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.)

Chisholm, J.R.M. & Jaubert, J.M. (1999). Comments on the article of Olsen et al. (1998): Mediterranean Caulerpa taxifolia and Caulerpa mexicana (Chlorophyta) are not conspecific. Journal of Phycology 35: 438-440, 1 fig.
Fagerberg, W.R., Hodges (Lavoie), E. & Dawes, C.J. (2010). The development and potential roles of cell-wall trabeculae in Caulerpa mexicana (Chlorophyta). Journal of Phycology 46(2): 309-315.
Fagerberg, W.R., Towle, J., Dawes, C.J. & Bottger, A. (2012). Bioadhesion in Caulerpa mexicana (Chlorophyta): rhizoid-substrate adhesion. Journal of Phycology 48(2): 264-269.
Giaccone, G. & Di Martino, V. (1996). La vegetaziones a Caulerpa mexicana Sonder ex Kützing nello Stretto di Messina (Sicilia Nord-Orientale). Boll. Acc. Gioenia Sci. Nat. Cataia 28: 75-91.
Olsen, J.L., Valero, M., Meusnier, I., Boele-Bos, S. & Stam, W.T. (1998). Mediterranean Caulerpa taxifolia and C. mexicana (Chlorophyta) are not conspecific. Journal of Phycology 34: 850-856, 2 figs, 2 tables.

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