Wurdemannia miniata (Sprengel) Feldmann & G.Hamel

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Rhodophyta
Subphylum Eurhodophytina
Class Florideophyceae
Subclass Rhodymeniophycidae
Order Gigartinales
Family Solieriaceae
Genus Wurdemannia

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Panama. Saboga-Las Perlas. In situ forming short dense mat overgrowing coral.. D.S. Littler. © Diane Littler (littlerd@si.edu).

Panama. Branch apex showing multiple apical cells.. D.S. Littler. © Diane Littler (littlerd@si.edu).

Panama. Transverse section of branch showing thick-walled medullary cells and smaller surface cells.. D.S. Littler. © Diane Littler (littlerd@si.edu).

Tanzania. Katrin Østerlund. © Katrin Oesterlund (Katrin.Osterlund@uadm.uu.se). From: Oliveira, E., Österlund, K. & Mtolera, M.S.P. (2005). Marine Plants of Tanzania. A field guide to the seaweeds and seagrasses. pp. 267, Numerous coloured illustrations and line drawings. Stockholm: Botany Department, Stockholm University.

Wurdemannia miniata (Sprengel) Feldmann & G.Hamel Panama. Saboga-Las Perlas. In situ forming short dense mat overgrowing coral.

Publication details
Wurdemannia miniata (Sprengel) Feldmann & G.Hamel 1934: 544

Original publication: Feldmann, J. & Hamel, G. (1934). Observations sur quelques Gélidiacées. Revue Générale de Botanique 46: 528-549, 11 figs.
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Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Wurdemannia is Wurdemannia setacea Harvey.

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

Basionym
Sphaerococcus miniatus Sprengel

Type information
Type locality: Vicinity of Montpellier, French Mediterranean coast (Lipkin & Silva 2002: 20). Type: Draparnaud; (Lipkin & Silva 2002: 20).

Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), saturn-red, flame-scarlet; literally, painted with red lead (Stearn 1973).

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Sphaerococcus miniatus Sprengel 1827

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Gelidium miniatum Kützing
Fucus miniatus Draparnaud ex A.P.de Candolle 1815
Gigartina miniata Duby 1830
Wurdemannia setacea Harvey 1853

General environment
This is a Marine species.

Distribution by country

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Wurdemannia setacea Harvey)
Europe: Italy (Giaccone 1969).

Atlantic Islands: Madeira (Levring 1974).

South America: Brazil (Taylor 1930).

(as Wurdemannia miniata (Sprengel) Feldmann & G.Hamel)
Europe: Adriatic (Giaccone 1978, Ercegovic 1980), Balearic Islands (Rodríguez y Femenías 1889, Mazza 1921, Ribera Siguán 1983, Ribera Siguán & Gómez Garreta 1984), France (Feldmann 1939), Greece (Gerloff & Geissler 1974, Diapoulis, Haritonidis & Koussouris 1986, Athanasiadis 1987, Tsirika & Haritonidis 2005), Italy (Giaccone 1969, Cecere et al. 1996, Furnari, Cormaci & Serio 1999, Rindi, Sartoni & Cinelli 2002, Serio et al 2006), Slovenia (Rindi & Battelli 2005), Spain (Ballesteros & Romero 1982, Gallardo et al. 1985, Soto & Conde 1989, Conde et al. 1996), Turkey (Europe) (Taskin et al. 2008 ).

Atlantic Islands: Azores (Tittley & Neto 2005), Bermuda (Taylor 1960), Canary Islands (Gil-Rodríguez & Afonso-Carrillo 1980, Guadalupe et al. 1995, Woelkerling et al. 1998, Haroun et al. 2002, Gil-Rodríguez et al. 2003, John et al. 2004, Anon 2011), Cape Verde Islands (John et al. 2004), Madeira (Neto, Cravo & Haroun 2001, John et al. 2004), Salvage Islands (Audiffred & Weisscher 1984, Parente et al. 2000, John et al. 2004).

North America: Florida (Taylor 1960), Mexico (Dawson 1953), North Carolina (Taylor 1960).

Central America: Belize (Norris & Bucher 1982), Costa Rica (Taylor 1945, Fernández-García et al. 2011), El Salvador (Fernández-García et al. 2011), Islas Revillagigedo (Taylor 1945), Nicaragua (Fernández-García et al. 2011), Panama (Taylor 1945, Fernández-García et al. 2011).

Caribbean Islands: Bahamas (Taylor 1960), Barbados (Taylor 1969), Caribbean (Littler & Littler 2000), Cuba (Taylor 1960, Suárez 2005), Jamaica (Taylor 1960), Lesser Antilles (Taylor 1960, Taylor 1969), Virgin Islands (Taylor 1960).

Western Atlantic: Trop. & Subtrop. W. Atlantic (Wynne 2011).

South America: Aves (Taylor 1960), Brazil (Joly 1965, Oliveira Filho 1977, Villaca et al. 2010 ), Colombia (Díaz-Pulido & Díaz-Ruíz 2003), Venezuela (Ganesan 1990).

Africa: Cameroon (Lawson & John 1987, John, Lawson & Ameka, 2003, John et al. 2004), Egypt (Aleem 1993), Eritrea (Lipkin & Silva 2002, Ateweberhan & Prud'homme van Reine 2005), Madagascar (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Mauritius (Børgesen 1950, Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), São Tomé & Príncipe (John, Lawson & Ameka, 2003, John et al. 2004), Tanzania (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Oliveira, Österlund & Mtolera 2005), Tunisia (Ben Maiz, Boudouresque & Quahchi 1987).

Indian Ocean Islands: Aldabra Islands (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Réunion (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Seychelles (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996).

South-west Asia: Pakistan (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Turkey (Asia) (Taskin et al. 2008 ).

Asia: China (Xia & Zhang 1999), Japan (Yoshida 1998), Taiwan (Anon. 2012).

South-east Asia: Indonesia (Atmadja & Prud'homme van Reine 2012), Philippines (Silva, Meñez & Moe 1987), Thailand (Tsutsui et al. 2012, Tsutsui et al. 2012), Vietnam (Pham-Hoàng 1969, Tsutsui et al. 2005).

Australia and New Zealand: Queensland (Lewis 1984, Price & Scott 1992, Phillips 1997, Phillips 2002, Bostock & Holland 2010).

Pacific Islands: Federated States of Micronesia (Lobban & Tsuda 2003), Fiji (N'Yeurt, South & Keats 1996, South & Skelton 2003), French Polynesia (N'Yeurt & Payri 2010), Hawaiian Islands (Abbott 1999), Mariana Islands (Tsuda 2003).

Taxonomic notes
Lawson & John (1987) cite Gigartina miniata Duby , 1830 as the basionym of Wurdemannia miniata (Duby) J. Feldmann & Hamel.

Nomenclatural notes
Børgesen (1950: 39) cites this species as Wurdemannia miniata (Draparnaud) Feldmann & Hamel. Dawson (1952: 86) cites this species as Wurdemannia miniata (Lamarck & De Candolle) Feldmann & Hamel. Lawson & John (1987: 179) cite this species as Wurdemannia miniata (Duby) J. Feldmann & Hamel, 1934 (basionym: Gigartina miniata Duby, 1830). Taylor (1945) cites this species as Wurdemannia miniata (Draparnaud) Feldmann & Hamel.

Key references
Dawes, C.J. & Mathieson, A.C. (2008). The seaweeds of Florida. pp. [i]- viii, [1]-591, [592], pls I-LI. Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida.

Funk, G. (1955). Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Meeresalgen von Neapel: Zugleich mikrophotographischer Atlas. Pubblicazioni della Stazione Zoologica di Napoli 25(Suppl.): i-x , 1- 178, 36 figs.

Lipkin, Y. & Silva, P.C. (2002). Marine algae and seagrasses of the Dahlak Archipelago, southern Red Sea. Nova Hedwigia 75: 1-90, 7 figs.

N'Yeurt, A.D.R. & Payri, C.E. (2010). Marine algal flora of French Polynesia III. Rhodophyta, with additions to the Phaeophyceae and Chlorophyta. Cryptogamie Algologie 31: 3-205.

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=Wurdemannia&species=miniata

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=Wurdemannia&Species=miniata

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 18 December 1997 by M.D. Guiry

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

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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 19 June 2013.

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