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Boergeseniella thuyoides (Harvey) Kylin

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

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Spain, North of Galicia, 2005; TS. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

Spain, North of Galicia, 2005. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

Spain, Galicia, A Coruña, Ártabra, 2007. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

Spain, Galicia, Lugo, Ensenada Coido, 1994, lower intertidal. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

Boergeseniella thuyoides (Harvey) Kylin Spain, North of Galicia, 2005; TS

Publication details
Boergeseniella thuyoides (Harvey) Kylin 1956: 508

Original publication: Kylin, H. (1956). Die Gattungen der Rhodophyceen. pp. i-xv, 1-673, 458 figs. Lund: C.W.K. Gleerups.

Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Boergeseniella is Boergeseniella fruticulosa (Wulfen) Kylin.

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

Basionym
Polysiphonia thuyoides Harvey

Type information
Type locality: Milltown Malbay, Co. Clare, Ireland Lectotype: TCD (Maggs & Hommersand 1993: 364).

Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), resembling the genus Thuja (Neal 1993).

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Polysiphonia thuyoides Harvey 1836
Rytiphlaea thuyoides (Harvey) Harvey 1849
Vertebrata thuyoides (Harvey) Kuntze 1891
Pterosiphonia thuyoides (Harvey) Batters 1902

General environment
This is a marine species.

Common names

(as Boergeseniella thuyoides (Harvey) Kylin)
English: Tufted Conifer Weed (Bunker et al. 2010).

Description
Cylindrical, cartilaginous, tufted, deep brownish purple fronds, to 150 mm high, from creeping rhizoidal base. Fronds distichously bi- tripinnate, patent, short, of nearly uniform length giving branches a linear appearance. Ramuli short, spinelike. Polysiphonous, central siphon with 8-12 pericentral siphons and outer cortication of small, coloured cells. Articulations as broad as long, barely visible.

Habitat
On rock and epiphytic in shallow, wave-exposed pools, lower intertidal, southern and western shores, occasional.

Distribution by country

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Detailed distribution with sources
(as Polysiphonia thuyoides Harvey)
Europe: Adriatic (Giaccone 1978), France (Feldmann 1954), Spain (Sauvageau 1897, Hamel 1928, Miranda 1931, Ardré 1957, Fischer-Piette, C. & Seoane Camba, J. (1962), Seoane-Camba 1965).

Africa: Morocco (Dangeard 1949).

(as Rytiphlaea thuyoides (Harvey) Harvey)
Ireland: Dublin (Sanders 1860).

Europe: Ireland (Sanders 1860), Spain (Lázaro Ibiza 1889).

(as Pterosiphonia thuyoides (Harvey) Batters)
Ireland: Antrim (Guiry 1978), Clare (Guiry 1978, De Valéra et al. 1979), Cork (Cullinane 1971, Guiry 1978), Donegal (Guiry 1978), Dublin (Guiry 1978), Galway (Guiry 1978), Kerry (Guiry 1978), Mayo (Cotton 1912, Guiry 1978), Waterford (Guiry 1977, Guiry 1978), Wexford (Parkes & Scannell 1969, Norton 1970, Guiry 1978).

Europe: Britain (Newton 1931), France (Dizerbo & Herpe 2007), Ireland (Cotton 1912, Cullinane 1971, Guiry 1977, Guiry 1978, De Valéra et al. 1979), Spain (Pérez-Cirera & Maldonado 1982, Conde & Seoane 1982, Fernández, Niell & Anadón 1983, Gallardo et al. 1985, Soto & Conde 1989).

Africa: Morocco (Gil-Rodriguez & Socorro Hernández 1986).

(as Boergeseniella thuyoides (Harvey) Kylin)
Ireland: Antrim (Maggs & Hommersand 1993, Morton 1994), Donegal (Morton 2003), Down (Morton 1994), Dublin (Maggs & Hommersand 1993).

Europe: Adriatic (Gómez Garreta et al. 2001), Britain (Maggs & Hommersand 1993, Hardy & Guiry 2003), France (Loiseaux-de Goër & Noailles 2008, Anon. 2012), Ireland (Maggs & Hommersand 1993, Morton 1994, Guiry 2012), Italy (Gómez Garreta et al. 2001, Furnari et al. 2003), Portugal (Ardré 1970, Araujo et al. 2009, Araújo, Bárbara & Sousa-Pinto in press), Spain (Granja, Cremades & Barbara 1992, Bárbara, Cremades & Pérez-Cirera 1995, Bárbara & Cremades 1996, Conde et al. 1996, Veiga, Cremades & Bárbara 1998, Gómez Garreta et al. 2001, Valenzuela Miranda 2002, Sánchez, Fernández & Rico 2003, Gorostiaga et al., 2004, Bárbara et al. 2005, Diaz-Tapia & Bárbara 2005, Peña & Bárbara 2008, Cires Rodriguez & Cuesta Moliner 2010), Turkey (Europe) (Gómez Garreta et al. 2001, Taskin et al. 2008 ).

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

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

Taxonomic notes
Guiry (1997) suggests consulting Maggs & Hommersand (1993) for the synonymy between Boergeseniella fthuyoides and Pterosiphonia thuyoides.

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=Boergeseniella&species=thuyoides

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=Boergeseniella&Species=thuyoides

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 31 March 1996 by M.D. Guiry

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

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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 18 June 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:77338

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