Ulva lactuca var. latissima (Linnaeus) A.P. De Candolle
Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Subkingdom Viridaeplantae
Phylum Chlorophyta
Class Ulvophyceae
Order Ulvales
Family Ulvaceae
Genus Ulva
Publication details
Ulva lactuca var. latissima (Linnaeus) A.P. De Candolle 1805: 9
Original publication: Lamarck, J.B., de & De Candolle, A.P. (1805). Flore française. Vol. 2 pp. i-xii, 1-600, 1 folded map. Paris.
Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Ulva is Ulva lactuca Linnaeus.
Status of name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Saccharina latissima (Linnaeus) C.E. Lane, C. Mayes, Druehl & G.W. Saunders
Basionym
Ulva latissima Linnaeus
Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), lettuce (Lewis & Short 1890).
Synonym(s)
No synonyms are currently included in AlgaeBase.
Detailed distribution with sources
(as Ulva lactuca var. latissima (Linnaeus) A.P. De Candolle)
Europe: Balearic Islands (Rodríguez y Femenías 1889), Britain (Newton 1931), Spain (Lázaro Ibiza 1889, Fischer-Piette, C. & Seoane Camba, J. (1962), Seoane-Camba 1965).
Atlantic Islands: Bermuda (Taylor 1960).
North America: Florida (Taylor 1960, Dawes 1974), Mississippi (Taylor 1960), Texas (Taylor 1960).
Central America: Costa Rica (Taylor 1960), Panama (Taylor 1960, Wysor & Kooistra 2003).
Caribbean Islands: Alabama (Taylor 1960), Bahamas (Taylor 1960), Barbados (Taylor 1960), Caicos Islands (Taylor 1960), Cuba (Taylor 1960), Hispaniola (Taylor 1960), Jamaica (Taylor 1960), Lesser Antilles (Taylor 1960), Puerto Rico (Taylor 1960), Trinidad (Taylor 1960).
South America: Brazil (Taylor 1930, Taylor 1960), Chile (Taylor 1939), Colombia (Taylor 1960), Falkland Islands (Taylor 1939), Venezuela (Taylor 1960).
Africa: Egypt (Papenfuss 1968).
South-west Asia: Jordan (Papenfuss 1968), Yemen (Papenfuss 1968).
Asia: Japan (Yoshida, Nakajima & Nakata 1990).
Antarctic and the subantarctic islands: Antarctica (Papenfuss 1964).
Nomenclatural notes
The name Ulva latissima L. , upon which Ulva lactuca var. latissima is based, has traditionally been misapplied to representatives of the genus with very broad, sheet-link fronds, whereas the type is referable to Laminaria saccharina (L.) Lamouroux (see Silva, 1952: 295; Papenfuss, 1960: 303). European records are apparently referable to Ulva gigantea (Kützing) Bliding (Silva, Meñez & Moe, 1987: 94).
Key references
Scagel, R.F. (1957). An annotated list of the marine algae of British Columbia and northern Washington (including keys to genera). Bulletin, National Museum of Canada 150: vi + 289.
UTEX Cultures
UTEX Culture LB 1857 Ulva lactuca
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NCBI Nucleotide Sequences
As of 2 June 2009, nucleotide sequence data are available at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Genbank for 52 samples identified as Ulva lactuca.
Created: 15 December 1997 by M.D. Guiry
Verified by: 23 January 2006 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.)
Thuret, G. (1854). Note sur la synonymie des Ulva lactuca et latissima, L., suivie de quelques remarques sur la tribu des Ulvacées. Mémoires de la Société Imperiale des Sciences Naturelles de Cherbourg 2: 17-32.
