Heterosiphonia plumosa (J.Ellis) Batters

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Rhodophyta
Subphylum Eurhodophytina
Class Florideophyceae
Subclass Rhodymeniophycidae
Order Ceramiales
Family Dasyaceae
Subfamily Heterosiphonioideae
Genus Heterosiphonia

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

Trá an Dóilín, An Cheathrú Rua, Co. na Gaillimhe. 05 May 2008. Michael Guiry. © Michael Guiry (mike.guiry@nuigalway.ie).

Trá an Dóilín, An Cheathrú Rua, Co. na Gaillimhe. 05 May 2008. Michael Guiry. © Michael Guiry (mike.guiry@nuigalway.ie).

Trá an Dóilín, An Cheathrú Rua, Co. na Gaillimhe. 08 Mar 2008. Michael Guiry. © Michael Guiry (mike.guiry@nuigalway.ie).

Collage of plants from Europe. Husa Vivian. © Husa Vivian (vivian.husa@imr.no).

Heterosiphonia plumosa (J.Ellis) Batters Ría de A Coruña, Galicia, 2009

Publication details
Heterosiphonia plumosa (J.Ellis) Batters 1902: 83

Original publication: Batters, E.A.L. (1902). A catalogue of the British marine algae. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign 40(Supplement): 1-107.
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Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Heterosiphonia is Heterosiphonia berkeleyi Montagne.

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

Basionym
Conferva plumosa J.Ellis

Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), feathery (Stearn 1973).

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Conferva plumosa J.Ellis 1768

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Heterosiphonia plumosa var. tenuior Batters
Heterosiphonia plumosa var. patens (Greville) Batters
Conferva coccinea Hudson 1778
Hutchinsia coccinea (Hudson) C.Agardh 1817
Callithamnion coccineum (Hudson) Lyngbye 1819
Ceramium patens Greville 1827
Dasya coccinea (Hudson) Areschoug 1845
Dasya coccinea var. tenuis Liebmann 1845
Dasya coccinea f. tenuis J.Agardh 1863
Heterosiphonia coccinea (Hudson) Falkenberg 1901

General environment
This is a marine species.

Common names

(as Heterosiphonia plumosa (J.Ellis) Batters)
English: Siphoned Feather Weed (Bunker et al. 2010).

Usage notes
High antioxidant activity (Zubia et al. 2009). - (24 Mar 2010) - Wendy Guiry

Description
Bushy, deep crimson fronds, to 200 mm long, from basal disc. Axis prominent, cylindrical, diminishing in diam. from base to apex. Branching repeatedly distichously pinnate, branches spreading , alternate. Ultimate ramuli bifid or multifid, monosiphonous, sharply pointed. Main axis of one central siphon, 9 pericentral siphons and outer layer of corticating cells in which rings of elongated cells alternate regularly with rings of short cells.

Habitat
On rocks and epiphytic, low intertidal pools and subtidal, southern and western shores, common in the south, rare in the north.

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Heterosiphonia plumosa var. tenuior Batters)
Europe: Britain (Newton 1931).

(as Heterosiphonia plumosa var. patens (Greville) Batters)
Europe: Britain (Newton 1931).

(as Conferva coccinea Hudson)
Ireland: Wexford (Tighe 1803).

Europe: Ireland (Tighe 1803).

(as Dasya coccinea (Hudson) Areschoug)
Ireland: Dublin (Sanders 1860).

Europe: Ireland (Sanders 1860).

(as Heterosiphonia coccinea (Hudson) Falkenberg)
Ireland: Mayo (Cotton 1912), Wexford (Cotton 1913).

Europe: Ireland (Cotton 1912, Cotton 1913), Spain (Miranda 1931), Sweden (Kylin 1907).

Africa: Morocco (Dangeard 1949).

(as Heterosiphonia plumosa (J.Ellis) Batters)
Ireland: Antrim (Guiry 1978, Morton 1994), Clare (Pybus 1977, Guiry 1978, De Valéra et al. 1979, Maggs 1983), Cork (Cullinane 1971, Cullinane, McCarthy & Fletcher 1975, Guiry 1978, Hiscock & Maggs 1982), Derry (Morton 1994), Donegal (Guiry 1978, Maggs & Hommersand 1993, Morton 2003), Down (Morton 1994), Dublin (Guiry 1978), Galway (Guiry 1978, Maggs 1983), Kerry (Guiry 1978), Mayo (Guiry 1978), Waterford (Guiry 1978), Wexford (Parkes & Scannell 1969, Norton 1970, Guiry 1978).

Europe: Baltic Sea (Nielsen et al. 1995), Black Sea (Gómez Garreta et al. 2001), Britain (Newton 1931, Maggs & Hommersand 1993, Choi, Kraft, Lee & Saunders 2002, Hardy & Guiry 2003), France (Feldmann 1954, Coppejans 1995, Dizerbo & Herpe 2007, Dizerbo & Herpe 2007, Loiseaux-de Goër & Noailles 2008, Zubia et al. 2009, Anon. 2012), Ireland (Cullinane 1971, Pybus 1977, Guiry 1978, De Valéra et al. 1979, Maggs 1983, Maggs & Hommersand 1993, Morton 1994, Guiry 2012), Netherlands (Stegenga & Mol 1983), Norway (Rueness 1997), Portugal (Ardré 1970, Araújo et al., 2003, Araujo et al. 2009, Araújo, Bárbara & Sousa-Pinto in press), Scandinavia (Athanasiadis 1996), Spain (Perez-Cirera, Cremades, Bárbara & Lopez 1991, Granja, Cremades & Barbara 1992, Bárbara, Cremades & Pérez-Cirera 1995, Bárbara & Cremades 1996, Conde et al. 1996, Veiga, Cremades & Bárbara 1998, Valenzuela Miranda 2002, Gorostiaga et al., 2004, Bárbara et al. 2005, Peña & Bárbara 2006, Martínez-Gil et al. 2007, Peña & Bárbara 2008, Peña & Bárbara 2010, Cires Rodriguez & Cuesta Moliner 2010), Sweden (Kylin 1944), Turkey (Europe) (Gómez Garreta et al. 2001, Taskin et al. 2008 ).

Africa: Morocco (Gómez Garreta et al. 2001), Western Sahara (John et al. 2004).

South-west Asia: Turkey (Asia) (Taskin et al. 2008 ).

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

Maggs, C.A. & Hommersand, M.H. (1993). Seaweeds of the British Isles. Volume 1. Rhodophyta. Part 3A. Ceramiales. pp. [i]-xv, 1-444, 129 figs, map. London: HMSO.

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

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=Heterosiphonia&Species=plumosa

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 31 March 1996 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 20 November 2008 by M.D. Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 2463 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.)

Boney, A.D. (1975). Regenerates from excised pseudolateral branches of Heterosiphonia plumosa (Ellis) Batt.. New Phytologist 74: 93-100.

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Citing AlgaeBase
Cite this record as:
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:77354