Cystoseira caespitosa Sauvageau

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Chromista
Phylum Ochrophyta
Class Phaeophyceae
Order Fucales
Family Sargassaceae
Genus Cystoseira

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Publication details
Cystoseira caespitosa Sauvageau 1912: 223-228, 526

Original publication: Sauvageau, C. (1912). A propos des Cystoseira de Banyuls et Guéthary. Bull. Stat. Biol. Arcachon 14: 133-556.

Type species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Cystoseira is Cystoseira concatenata (Linnaeus) C.Agardh.

Status of name
This name is currently regarded as a taxonomic synonym of Cystoseira brachycarpa var. balearica (Sauvageau) Giaccone

Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), growing in patches or tufts, caespitose (Stearn 1973).

Synonym(s)
No synonyms are currently included in AlgaeBase.

General environment
This is a Marine species.

Type information
Lectotype locality: Banyuls-sur-mer, France (Gómez Garreta & Ribera 2005: 138). Lectotype: C. Sauvageau No. SA4957; 6 June 1907; PC (Gómez Garreta & Ribera 2005: 138-139, fig. 2).

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Cystoseira caespitosa Sauvageau)
Europe: France (Feldmann 1937, Gómez Garreta & Ribera 2005, Anon. 2012), Italy (Giaccone 1969), Spain (Ballesteros & Romero 1982, Ballesteros 1983, Gallardo et al. 1985).

Africa: Tunisia (Ben Maiz, Boudouresque & Quahchi 1987).

Taxonomic notes
Cormaci et al. (1992) suggested that Cystoseira caespitosa and C. balearica are synonymous because the former is similar to plants of the latter with spine-like leaves, i.e. the “spring form” of C. balearica as suggested by Huvé & Pellegrini (1970). The similarity had also been noted by Roberts (1978). However, Giaccone in Ribera et al. (1992) treated C. balearica as a variety of C. brachycarpa and this opinion was followed by Garreta et al. (2001).

Source of synonymy
Cormaci, M., Furnari, G., Giaccone, G., Scammacca, B. & Serio, D. (1992). Observations taxonomiques et biogéographiques sur quelques espèces du genre Cystoseira C. Agardh. Bulletin de l'Institut Océanographique de Monaco no. 9 (Spécial): 21-35.

Key references
Gómez Garreta, A. & Ribera, M.A. (2005). Lectotypification of several taxa of Cystoseira (Cystoseiraceae, Fucales) described by Sauvageau. Cryptogamie, Algologie 26: 135-147.

Gómez Garreta, A., Barcelo i Martí, M.C., Ribera Siguán, M.A. & Rull Lluch, J. (2001). Cystoseira C. Agardh. In: Flora Phycologica Iberica Vol. 1 Fucales. (Gómez Garreta, A. Eds) Vol.1, pp. 99-166. Murcia: Universidad de Murcia.

Ribera, M.A., Gómez-Garreta, A., Gallardo, T., Cormaci, M., Furnari, G. & Giaccone, G. (1992). Check-list of Mediterranean Seaweeds. I. Fucophyceae (Warming 1884). Botanica Marina 35: 109-130.

Roberts, M. (1978). Active speciation in the taxonomy of the genus Cystoseira C. Ag.. In: Modern approaches to the taxomy of Red and Brown Algae. (Irvine, D.E.G. & Price, J.H. Eds) Vol.Systematics Association Special Vol. 10, pp. 399-422. London, New York.: Academic Press.

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=Cystoseira&species=caespitosa

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=Cystoseira&Species=caespitosa

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 24 January 1999 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 30 April 2013 by M.D. Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 784 times since it was created.

Linking to this page: http://www.algaebase.org/search/species/detail/?species_id=15757

Citing AlgaeBase
Cite this record as:
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 19 June 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:118001