Alsidium helminthochorton (Schwendimann) Kützing

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Rhodophyta
Subphylum Eurhodophytina
Class Florideophyceae
Subclass Rhodymeniophycidae
Order Ceramiales
Family Rhodomelaceae
Genus Alsidium

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Publication details
Alsidium helminthochorton (Schwendimann) Kützing 1843: 435

Original publication: Kützing, F.T. (1845). Phycologia germanica, d. i. Deutschlands Algen in bündigen Beschreibungen. Nebst einer Anleitung zum Untersuchen und Bestimmen dieser Gewächse für Anfänger. pp. i-x, 1-340. Nordhausen: W. Köhne.
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Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Alsidium is Alsidium corallinum C.Agardh.

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

Basionym
Conferva helminthochortos Schwendimann

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Conferva helminthochortos Schwendimann 1780
Fucus helminthocorton (Schwendimann) Tourrette 1782

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Sphaerococcus helminthochorton (Schwendimann) C.Agardh
Gracilaria helminthochorton (Schwendimann) J.Agardh 1842

General environment
This is a Marine species.

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Alsidium helminthochorton (Schwendimann) Kützing)
Europe: Adriatic (Giaccone 1978, Gómez Garreta et al. 2001), Balearic Islands (Colmeiro, M. 1868, Barceló 1879-1881, Bellón 1921, Ribera Siguán & Gómez Garreta 1984, Ribera, Coloreu, Rodriguez Prieto & Ballesteros 1997, Gómez Garreta et al. 2001), Corsica (Boudouresque & Perret 1977, Sales & Ballesteros 2011), France (Feldmann 1943, Gómez Garreta et al. 2001, Anon. 2012), Greece (Athanasiadis 1987, Gómez Garreta et al. 2001, Tsirika & Haritonidis 2005), Italy (Furnari, Cormaci & Serio 1999, Gómez Garreta et al. 2001, Gómez Garreta et al. 2001, Rindi, Sartoni & Cinelli 2002, Furnari et al. 2003, Furnari et al. 2003, Furnari et al. 2003, Furnari et al. 2003), Malta (Cormaci et al. 1997), Sardinia (Gómez Garreta et al. 2001, Furnari et al. 2003), Spain (Conde et al. 1996), Turkey (Europe) (Gómez Garreta et al. 2001, Taskin et al. 2008 ).

Africa: Algeria (Gómez Garreta et al. 2001), Libya (Gómez Garreta et al. 2001).

South-west Asia: Israel (Einav 2007 ), Levant states (Gómez Garreta et al. 2001), Turkey (Asia) (Taskin et al. 2008 ).

Key references
Rodríguez-Prieto, C., Ballesteros, E., Boisset, F. & Afonso-Carrillo, J. (2013). Guía de las macroalgas y fanerógamas marinas del Mediterráneo occidental. pp. [1]-656. Barcelona: Ediciones Omega, S.A..

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

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=Alsidium&Species=helminthochorton

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 18 December 1997 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 07 May 2013 by M.D. Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 1210 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.)

Pellegrini, M. & Pellegrini, L. (1985). On the occurrence of twisted fibrillar structures in the cytoplasm of the red alga Alsidium helminthochorton (La Tourette) Kütz., ultrastructure and cytochemical observations. Protoplasma 126: 54-61.

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Citing AlgaeBase
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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 20 May 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:91933