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

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

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Palau Islands, West Pacific. Hideo Ohba. © Palau International Coral Reef Center. From: Ohba, H., Victor, S., Golbuu, Y. & Yukihira, H. (2007) Tropical Marine Plants of Palau. pp. 153. PICRC & JICA..

Palau Islands, West Pacific, 0.5 m deep. Hideki Yukihira. © Palau International Coral Reef Center. From: Ohba, H., Victor, S., Golbuu, Y. & Yukihira, H. (2007) Tropical Marine Plants of Palau. pp. 153. PICRC & JICA..

Palau Islands, West Pacific, 0.5 m deep. 07 Dec 2004. Hideo Ohba. © Palau International Coral Reef Center. From: Ohba, H., Victor, S., Golbuu, Y. & Yukihira, H. (2007) Tropical Marine Plants of Palau. pp. 153. PICRC & JICA..

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. From: Huisman JM, Abbott IA, Smith CM (2007). Hawaiian reef plants. University of Hawaii Sea Grant College Program, Honolulu. 264 p. Available from Seagrant, University of Hawai'i.

Hawaii; apex; scale 2 mm. 15 Aug 2011. J.M. Huisman. © J.M. Huisman. From: Huisman JM, Abbott IA, Smith CM (2007). Hawaiian reef plants. University of Hawaii Sea Grant College Program, Honolulu. 264 p. Available from Seagrant, University of Hawai'i.

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).

Panama. In situ. D.S. Littler. © Diane Littler (littlerd@si.edu).

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Caulerpa sertularioides (S.G.Gmelin) M.A.Howe From Littler, D.S., M.M. Littler & M.D. Hanisak (2008) Submersed Plants of the Indian River Lagoon. Purchase information

Publication details
Caulerpa sertularioides (S.G.Gmelin) M.A.Howe 1905: 576

Original publication: 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 (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

General environment
This is a Marine species.

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Caulerpa plumaris (Forsskål) C.Agardh)
South America: Chile (Ramírez & Santelices 1991).

(as Caulerpa sertularioides (S.G.Gmelin) M.A.Howe)
Europe: Turkey (Europe) (Taskin et al. 2008 ).

Atlantic Islands: Bermuda (Taylor 1960, Maloney et al. 2011 ), Canary Islands (Haroun Trabaue et al. 1985, Haroun et al. 2002, Gil-Rodríguez et al. 2003, Moreira-Reyes, Soler-Onís & Gil-Rodríguez 2005, Anon 2011), Cape Verde Islands (Otero-Schmitt & Sanjuan 1992, John et al. 2004, Prud'homme van Reine, Haroun & Kostermans 2005).

North America: Baja California Sur (Gulf) (Pérez-Eatrada et al. 2012 ), Florida (Taylor 1960, Dawes 1974, Lam & Zechman 2006, Littler, Littler & Hanisak 2008), Gulf of California (Dawson 1944), Mexico (Taylor 1945, Taylor 1960), Texas (Wynne 2009).

Central America: Baja California (Norris 2010), Belize (Taylor 1960, Norris & Bucher 1982, Littler & Littler 1997), Costa Rica (Taylor 1960, Fernández-García et al. 2011), México (Pacific) (Pedroche et al. 2005), Nicaragua (Fernández-García et al. 2011), Panama (Taylor 1960, Kooistra 2002, Famà, Wysor, Kooistra & Zuccarello 2002, Wysor & Kooistra 2003, Wysor 2004, Fernández-García et al. 2011), Veracruz (State) (Robinson, Galicia-García & Okolodkov 2012).

Caribbean Islands: Bahamas (Taylor 1960), Barbados (Taylor 1960, Taylor 1969), Caicos Islands (Taylor 1960), Caribbean (Littler & Littler 2000), Cuba (Taylor 1960, Cabrera, Moreira & Suárez 2004, Suárez 2005, Díez García & Jover Capote 2011), Hispaniola (Taylor 1960), Jamaica (Taylor 1960), Lesser Antilles (Taylor 1960, Taylor 1969), Martinique (Rodríguez-Prieto, Michanek & Ivon 1999, Famà, Wysor, Kooistra & Zuccarello 2002), Netherlands Antilles (Taylor 1960), Puerto Rico (Taylor 1960), Trinidad & Tobago (Taylor 1960, Richardson 1975, Duncan & Lee Lum 2006), Virgin Islands (Taylor 1960).

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

South America: Brazil (Taylor 1930, Taylor 1960, Joly 1965, Oliveira Filho 1977, Castelar et al. 2009, Moura 2010), Colombia (Taylor 1960), Venezuela (Taylor 1960, Ganesan 1990).

Indian Ocean Islands: Andaman Islands (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Laccadive Islands (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Maldives (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Nicobar Islands (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Réunion (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Rodrigues Island (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Seychelles (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996).

Asia: China (Titlyanov et al. 2011 ), Japan (Yoshida, Nakajima & Nakata 1990), Taiwan (Anon. 2012, Anon. 2012).

South-east Asia: Indonesia (Verheij & Prud'homme van Reine 1993, Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Malaysia (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Myanmar (Burma) (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Philippines (Silva, Meñez & Moe 1987), Singapore (Teo & Wee 1983, Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Pham et al. 2011), Thailand (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Hodgson et al. 2004), Vietnam (Pham-Hoàng 1969, Hodgson et al. 2004, Tien 2007, Titlyanov & Titlyanov 2012).

Australia and New Zealand: New Zealand (Adams 1994, Broady et al. 2012), Northern Territory (Womersley 1958, Lewis 1987), Papua New Guinea (Coppejans et al. 2001), Queensland (Lewis 1987, Cribb 1996, Phillips 1997, Huisman 2000, Phillips 2002, Kraft 2007, Bostock & Holland 2010), Western Australia (Huisman 2000, Huisman & Borowitzka 2003).

Pacific Islands: American Samoa (Skelton et al. 2004), Federated States of Micronesia (Tsuda 2006), Fiji (N'Yeurt, South & Keats 1996, South & Skelton 2003, Littler & Littler 2003), French Polynesia (Payri, N'Yeurt & Orempuller 2000), Hawaiian Islands (Magruder & Hunt 1979, Abbott & Huisman, 2004, Hodgson et al. 2004, Huisman, Abbott & Smith 2007), Mariana Islands (Tsuda 2003), Republic of Palau (Ohba et al 2007), Samoan Archipelago (Skelton & South 1999), Solomon Islands (Womersley & Bailey 1970).

Key references
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.

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.

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=sertularioides

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=sertularioides

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.)

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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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 07 December 2013.

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