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Ulvaria obscura (Kützing) P.Gayral ex C.Bliding

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Chlorophyta
Class Ulvophyceae
Order Ulvales
Family Ulvaceae
Genus Ulvaria

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Spain, Galicia, Ría de A Coruña, 2009. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

North of Portugal, Cepaes, 2003, microscope. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

Spain, Galicia, A Coruña, Isla redonda, 2005, microscope. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

Ulvaria obscura (Kützing) P.Gayral ex C.Bliding Spain, Galicia, Ría de A Coruña, 2009

Publication details
Ulvaria obscura (Kützing) P.Gayral ex C.Bliding 1969: 574

Original publication: Bliding, C. (1969 '1968'). A critical survey of European taxa in Ulvales, Part II. Ulva, Ulvaria, Monostroma, Kornmannia. Botaniska Notiser 121: 535-629, 47 figs.

Type species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Ulvaria is Ulva fusca Postels & Ruprecht.

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

Basionym
Ulva obscura Kützing

Type information
Type locality: Biarritz, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France (Kützing 1843: 296). Holotype: P.A.C. Endress; iv.1831; L 938.53.77 (Kützing 1843: 296).

Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), dark, shady, indisctinct (Stearn 1973).

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Ulva obscura Kützing 1843
Monostroma obscurum (Kützing) J.Agardh 1883

General environment
This is a Marine species.

Distribution by country

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Monostroma obscurum (Kützing) J.Agardh)
Ireland: Antrim (Morton 1994), Donegal (Morton 2003), Down (Morton 1994).

Europe: Black Sea (Gallardo et al. 1993), Britain (Burrows 1991, Hardy & Guiry 2003), France (Feldmann 1954, Verlaque 2001, Dizerbo & Herpe 2007, Loiseaux-de Goër & Noailles 2008, Anon. 2012), Ireland (Morton 1994), Norway (Rueness 1997), Portugal (Ardré 1970, Araújo et al. 2006, Araújo, Bárbara & Sousa-Pinto in press), Spain (Miranda 1931, Seoane-Camba 1965, Peña & Bárbara 2002, Gorostiaga et al., 2004, Bárbara et al. 2005, Bárbara et al. 2006, Martínez-Gil et al. 2007, Peña & Bárbara 2008, Cires Rodriguez & Cuesta Moliner 2010).

North America: Oregon (Hansen 1997).

South America: Brazil (Taylor 1930 ).

Africa: Morocco (Dangeard 1949, Benhissoune, Boudouresque & Verlaque 2001).

(as Ulvaria obscura (Kützing) P.Gayral ex C.Bliding)
Arctic: Canada (Arctic) (Lee 1980, Lee 1980), Svalbard (Hop et al. 2012).

Europe: Britain (Brodie et al. 2007), France (Loiseaux-de Goër & Noailles 2008, Anon. 2012), Ireland (Guiry 2012), Portugal (Araujo, R., I. Bárbara, I. Sousa-Pinto & V. Quintino (2005), Araujo et al. 2009), Spain (Pérez-Cirera & Maldonado 1982, Granja, Cremades & Barbara 1992, Bárbara et al. 1995, Bárbara, Cremades & Pérez-Cirera 1995, Bárbara & Cremades 1996, Veiga, Cremades & Bárbara 1998, Bárbara 2002, Bárbara et al., 2003, Peña & Bárbara 2010), Spitsbergen (Vinogradova 1995), Veneto (Sfriso, A.).

Atlantic Islands: E. Greenland (Pedersen 1976), Iceland (Caram & Jónsson 1972).

North America: British Columbia (Saunders & Kucera 2010), Maine (Mathieson et al. 2001), New Brunswick (Saunders & Kucera 2010), New Hampshire (Mathieson & Hehre 1986), Newfoundland (Saunders & Kucera 2010), Quebec (Saunders & Kucera 2010), Washington (Nelson, Nelson & Tjoelker 2003, Hayden & Waaland 2004).

South America: Argentina (Boraso de Zaixso 2004, Boraso & Zaixso 2011).

Nomenclatural notes
Proposal by P. Gayral (1964: 2151) is invalid: the basionym was not cited; cited Monostroma obscurum (Kützing) J. Agardh.

Key references
Brodie, J., Maggs, C.A. & John, D.M. (2007). Green seaweeds of Britain and Ireland. pp. [i-v], vi-xii, 1-242, 101 figs. London: British Phycological Society.

Guiry, M.D. (1997). Benthic red, brown and green algae. In: The Species Directory of the Marine Fauna and Flora of the British Isles and Surrounding Seas. (Howson, C.M. & Picton, B.E. Eds), pp. 341-367. Belfast & Ross-on-Wye: Ulster Museum & Marine Conservation Society.

Kirkendale, L., Saunders, G.W. & Winberg, P. (2013). A molecular survey of Ulva (Chlorophyta) in temperate Australia reveals enhanced levels of cosmopolitanism. Journal of Phycology 49(1): 69-81.

Loiseaux-de Goër, S. & Noailles, M.-C. (2008). Algues de Roscoff. pp. [1]-215, col. figs. Roscoff: Editions de la Station Biologique de Roscoff.

Saunders, G.W. & Kucera, H. (2010). An evaluation of rbcL, tufA, UPA, LSU and ITS as DNA barcode markers for the marine green macroalgae. Cryptogamie Algologie 31(4): 487-528.

Sfriso, A. (2011). Chlorophyta multicellulari e fanerogame acquatiche. Ambiente di transizione italiani e litorali adiacenti. pp. [1]-318, pls 1-94. Bologna: Arpa Emilia-Romagna.

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

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=Ulvaria&Species=obscura

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 22 December 1998 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 16 May 2013 by Wendy Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 2103 times since it was created.

References
(Please note: only references with the binomials in the title are included. The information is from the Literature database.)

Nelson, T.A., Lee, D.J. & Smith, B.C. (2003). Are green tides harmful algal blooms? Toxic properties of warwe-soluble extracts from two bloom forming macroalgae, Ulva fenestrata and Ulvaria obscura (Ulvophyceae). Journal of Phycology 39: 874-879.

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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 20 May 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:90963

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