Caulerpa sertularioides (S.G.Gmelin) M.Howe

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Subkingdom Viridiplantae
Infrakingdom Chlorophyta infrakingdom
Phylum Chlorophyta
Subphylum Chlorophytina
Class Ulvophyceae
Order Bryopsidales
Family Caulerpaceae
Genus Caulerpa

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en su hábitat natural, en la zona Habana-Matanzas. Foto: Ángel Fernández..

Palau Islands, West Pacific. Hideo Ohba. © Palau International Coral Reef Center.

Palau Islands, West Pacific, 0.5 m deep. Hideki Yukihira. © Palau International Coral Reef Center.

Palau Islands, West Pacific, 0.5 m deep. 07 Dec 2004. Hideo Ohba. © Palau International Coral Reef Center.

1. Habit of plant grown in aquarium at Marine Biological Sesoko Station (Okinawa, Japan). 2. Habit (in aquarium), Phu Quock Island, Vietnam.. 29 Feb 2012. Eduard and Tamara Titlyanova (etitlyanov@mail.ru). © Eduard and Tamara Titlyanova (etitlyanov@mail.ru).

Hawaii; scale is 5 mm. 15 Aug 2011. J.M. Huisman. © J.M. Huisman.

Hawaii; apex; scale 2 mm. 15 Aug 2011. J.M. Huisman. © J.M. Huisman.

Barrow Island, Australia. 25 May 2011. John Huisman. © John Huisman (j.huisman@murdoch.edu.au).

Bonaire, Caribbean. 26 Mar 2011. Mat Vestjens & Anne Frijsinger. © Mat Vestjens & Anne Frijsinger (annenmat@natuurlijkmooi.net).

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Caulerpa sertularioides (S.G.Gmelin) M.Howe Palau Islands, West Pacific
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Publication details
Caulerpa sertularioides (S.G.Gmelin) M.Howe 1905: 576

Published in: Howe, M.A. (1905). Phycological studies - II. New Chlorophyceae, new Rhodophyceae and miscellaneous notes. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 32: 563-586, pls 23-29.
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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 sertularioides S.G.Gmelin

Type information
Type locality: "in coralliis americanis" [Tropical America] (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996: 843). Notes: Possibly tropical Atlantic America (Hodgson et al., 2004: 32). Tropical America (Lipkin & Silva, 2002)

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Fucus sertularioides S.G.Gmelin 1768

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Fucus plumaris Forsskål 1775
Caulerpa plumaris (Forsskål) C.Agardh 1823
Corradoria plumaris (Forssk.) Trevisan 1849
Caulerpa sertularioides f. typica Børgesen 1907

Habitat notes
Widespread in tropical waters. Restricted to horizontal surfaces in shallow water (Lipkin & Silva 2002). - (23 Jun 2010) - Wendy Guiry

General environment
This is a marine species.

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Key references
Belton, G.S., Huisman, J.M. & Gurgel, C.F.D. (2015). Caulerpaceae. In: Algae of Australia: marine benthic algae of north-western Australia. 1. Green and brown algae. (Huisman, J.M. Eds), pp. 75-102. Canberra & Melbourne: ABRS & CSIRO Publishing.

Braune, W. (2008). Meeresalgen. Ein Farbbildführer zu den verbreiteten benthischen Grün- Braun- und Rotalgen der Weltmeere. pp. [1]-596, pls 1-266 (colour photographs). Ruggell: A.R.G. Gantner Verlag.

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.

Gonzalez Henriquez, N. & Santos Guerra, A. (1983). El genero Caulerpa Lamouroux en Las Islas Canarias. Botanica Macaronesica 11: 3-24.

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.

Howe, M.A. (1905). Phycological studies - II. New Chlorophyceae, new Rhodophyceae and miscellaneous notes. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 32: 563-586, pls 23-29.

Huisman, J.M., Abbott, I.A., Smith, C.M. (2007). Hawaiian reef plants. pp. [1]-264, numerous colour photographs. Honolulu: A publication of the University of Hawai'i Sea Grant College Program.

Senerpont Domis, L.N. de, Famà, P., Bartlett, A.J., Prud’homme van Reine, W.F., Espinosa, C.A. & Trono, Jr G.C. (2003). Defining taxon boundaries in members of the morphologically and genetically plastic genus Caulerpa (Caulerpales, Chlorophyta). Journal of Phycology 39: 1019-1037.

Suárez, A.M., Martínez-Daranas, B. & Alfonso, Y. (2015). Macroalgas marinas de Cuba. pp. [1]-264, 229 figs. La Habana [Havana]: UH [Universidad de La Habana] Editorial.

Svedelius, N. (1906). Reports on the marine algae of Ceylon. No. 1. Ecological and systematic studies of the Ceylon species of Caulerpa. Ceylon Marine Biological Laboratory Reports 2(4): 81-144, 51 figs.

Titlyanov E.A., Titlyanova T.V. & Belous O.S. (2016). Useful marine plants of the Asia-Pacific Region countries. pp. 1-348, Many col. photo. Vladivostok: Dalnauka. [in Russian and English]

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. [in Russian]

Created: 12 December 1997 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 29 June 2017 by M.D. Guiry

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References
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Lee, J. & Manhart, J.R. (2003). Three ORF-containing group I introns in chloroplast SSU of Caulerpa sertularioides (Ulvophyceae) and their evolutionary implications. Algae 18(3): 183-190, 6 figs.
Lehman, R.L. & Manhart, J.R. (1997). A preliminary comparison of restriction fragment patterns in the genus Caulerpa (Chlorophyta) and the unique structure of the chloroplast genome of Coulerpa sertularioides. Journal of Phycology 33: 1055-1062, 5 figs, 2 tables.
Mishra, A.K. & Kefford, N.P. (1969). Developmental studies on the coenocytic alga, Caulerpa sertularioides. Journal of Phycology 5: 103-109, 3 figs, 4 tables.
Mishra, A.K. (1969). Fine structure of the growing point of the coenocytic alga, Caulerpa sertularioides. Canadian Journal of Botany 47: 1599-1603.
Scrosati, R (2001). Population dynamics of Caulerpa sertularioides (Chlorophyta, Bryopsidales) from Baja California, Mexico, during El Niño and La Niña years. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 81: 721-726.

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