Caulerpa scalpelliformis (R.Brown ex Turner) C.Agardh

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

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From: Harvey, W.H. (1858-1863). Phycologia australica. Vols 1-5. Plates I-CCC. London: Lovell Reeve & Co. Available on CD from http://www.phycology.ugent.be/harvey.

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.

Marmion, 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..

Ascophyllum mackayi (Turner) Holmes & Batters

Caulerpa scalpelliformis (R.Brown ex Turner) C.Agardh Tanzania

Publication details
Caulerpa scalpelliformis (R.Brown ex Turner) C.Agardh 1817: XXII

Original publication: Agardh, C.A. (1817). Synopsis algarum Scandinaviae, adjecta dispositione universali algarum. pp. [i]-xl, [1]-135. Lundae [Lund]: Ex officina Berlingiana.
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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.

Basionym
Fucus scalpelliformis R.Brown ex Turner

Type information
Type locality: southern coast of Australia (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996: 838). Type: R. Brown; BM (Womersley 1984: 258).

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Fucus scalpelliformis R.Brown ex Turner 1809
Corradoria scalpelliformis (R.Brown ex Turner) Trevisan 1849

General environment
This is a marine species.

Distribution by country

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Caulerpa scalpelliformis (R.Brown ex Turner) C.Agardh)
Atlantic Islands: Canary Islands (Gil-Rodríguez & Afonso-Carrillo 1980, John et al. 2004).

Caribbean Islands: Barbados (Taylor 1969), Lesser Antilles (Taylor 1969).

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

South America: Brazil (Oliveira Filho 1977, Falcão & Menezes de Széchy 2005, Moura 2010), Venezuela (Ganesan 1990).

Africa: Angola (John et al. 2004), Gambia (John, Lawson & Ameka, 2003, John et al. 2004, John et al. 2004), Kenya (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Bolton, Oyieke & Gwanda 2007), Madagascar (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Mauritius (Børgesen 1940, Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Mozambique (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), São Tomé & Príncipe (Lawson & John 1987, John, Lawson & Ameka, 2003, John et al. 2004), South Africa (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Tanzania (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Oliveira, Österlund & Mtolera 2005).

Indian Ocean Islands: Aldabra Islands (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996).

South-west Asia: India (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Sahoo et al. 2001, Athiperumalsami et al. 2010, Suryanarayanan et al. 2010), Israel (Nemlich & Danin 1964, Einav 2007, Galil 2007 ), Levant states (Gallardo et al. 1993), Oman (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Pakistan (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Sri Lanka (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Turkey (Asia) (Taskin et al. 2008), Yemen (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996).

Asia: Japan (Yoshida, Nakajima & Nakata 1990, Yoshida 1998).

South-east Asia: Indonesia (Verheij & Prud'homme van Reine 1993), Singapore (Pham et al. 2011), Vietnam (Tien 2007).

Australia and New Zealand: Australia (Famà, Wysor, Kooistra & Zuccarello 2002 ), New South Wales (Womersley 1984, Millar & Kraft 1994, Huisman 2000), South Australia (Womersley 1984, Huisman 2000), Tasmania (Womersley 1984, Huisman 2000), Victoria (Womersley 1984, Huisman 2000, Kevekordes et al 2006, Shepherd et al. 2009), Western Australia (Womersley 1984, Huisman & Walker 1990, Huisman 2000).

Nomenclatural notes
Børgesen (1940) cites this species as Caulerpa scalpelliformis (R. Brown) Web. v. Bosse.

Source of synonymy
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.

Key references
Falcão, C. & Menezes de Széchy, M.T. (2005). Changes in shallow phytobenthic assemblages in southeastern Brazil, following the replacement of Sargassum vulgare (Phaeophyta) by Caulerpa scalpelliformis (Chlorophyta). Botanica Marina 48: 208-217.

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.

Kevekordes, K., Holland, D., Haubner, N., Jenkins, S., Koss, R., Roberts, S., Raven, J.A., Scrimgeour, C.M., Shelly, K., Stojkovic, S. & Beardall, J. (2006). Inorganic carbon acquisition by eight species of Caulerpa (Caulerpaceae, Chlorophyta). Phycologia 45: 442-449.

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

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=scalpelliformis

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 12 December 1997 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 16 August 2011 by Wendy 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.)

Falcão, C. & Menezes de Széchy, M.T. (2005). Changes in shallow phytobenthic assemblages in southeastern Brazil, following the replacement of Sargassum vulgare (Phaeophyta) by Caulerpa scalpelliformis (Chlorophyta). Botanica Marina 48: 208-217.
Kajimura, M. (1968). On fruiting season of Caulerpa scalpelliformis (R. Br) Ag. var. denticulata (Decsn.) Weber van Bosse in the Oki Islands, Shimane Prefecture. Bulletin of the Japanese Society for Phycology 14: 38-43.
Kajimura, M. (1969). On ecology of Caulerpa scalpelliformis var. denticulata in the Oki Islands. Mem. Fac, Liter. Sci., Shimane Univ. Nat. Sci. 2: 81-98.
Kajimura, M. (1977). On dioecious and isogamous reproduction of Caulerpa scalpelliformis (R. Br.) Ag. var. denticulata (Decsn.) Weber van Bosse from the Oki Islands, Shimane Prefecture. Bulletin of the Japanese Society for Phycology 25: 27-33.
Kajimura, M. 1970 (1970). On swarmer production and discharge in (R. Br.) AG. var. denticulata (Decsn.) Weber Van Bosse from the Oki Islands, Shimane Prefecture. Japanese Society of Phycology 18(1): 8-11.
Kajimura, M. 1984 (1984). On ecology of Caulerpa scalpelliformis var. denticulata in the Oki Islands II. : .

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Wendy 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 19 June 2013.

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