Sargassum oligocystum Montagne

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

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1. Phylloids. 2. Vesicles. 3. Fragment with vesicles. 4. Habit (in aquarium). 5. Upper subtidal (Nhatrang Bay, Vietnam).. 09 Mar 2012. Eduard and Tamara Titlyanova. © Eduard and Tamara Titlyanova (etitlyanov@mail.ru).

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.

Erythroglossum bipinnatifidum (Montagne) J.Agardh

Sargassum oligocystum Montagne 1. Phylloids. 2. Vesicles. 3. Fragment with vesicles. 4. Habit (in aquarium). 5. Upper subtidal (Nhatrang Bay, Vietnam).

Publication details
Sargassum oligocystum Montagne in Dumont d'Urville 1845: 67

Original publication: Montagne, C. (1845). Plantes cellulaires. In: Voyage au Pôle Sud et dans l'Océanie sur les corvettes l'Astrolabe et la Zelée...pendant les années 1837-1838-1839-1840, sous le commandement de M.J. Dumont-d'Urville. Botanique. (Hombron, J.B. & Jacquinot, H. Eds) Vol. 1, pp. i-xiv, 1-349. Paris: Gide et Cie, Éditeurs.
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Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Sargassum is Sargassum bacciferum (Turner) C.Agardh.

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

Infrageneric classification
Subgenus Sargassum Section Acanthocarpicae

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Carpacanthus oligocystus (Montagne) Kützing 1849

General environment
This is a Marine species.

Distribution by country

Type information
Type locality: Lampung Bay, Sumatra, Indonesia (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996: 690). Type: PC (Noro, Ajisaka & Yoshida 1994: 27).

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Sargassum oligocystum Montagne)
Africa: Eritrea (Ateweberhan & Prud'homme van Reine 2005), Kenya (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Bolton, Oyieke & Gwanda 2007), Mauritius (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Tanzania (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Oliveira, Österlund & Mtolera 2005).

Indian Ocean Islands: Andaman Islands (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Nicobar Islands (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996).

South-west Asia: Bangladesh (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), India (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Sahoo et al. 2001), Kuwait (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Qatar (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Saudi Arabia (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Sri Lanka (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Yemen (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996).

Asia: China (Tseng 1984, Tseng & Baoran 1995, Tseng & Lu 2000), Japan (Phillips 1995, Yoshida 1998), Taiwan (Anon. 2012, Anon. 2012).

South-east Asia: Indonesia (Noro, Ajisaka & Yoshida 1994, Phillips 1995, Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Malaysia (Phillips 1995, Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Ajisaka, Phang & Yoshida 1999, Ajisaka 2002), Philippines (Silva, Meñez & Moe 1987, Trono 1992, Noro, Ajisaka & Yoshida 1994, Phillips 1995, Phillips 1995), Singapore (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Ajisaka 2002, Pham et al. 2011), Thailand (Coppejans et al. 2011, Tsutsui et al. 2012), Vietnam (Abbott, Fisher & McDermid 2002, Tsutsui et al. 2005, Dai 2007, Titlyanov & Titlyanov 2012).

Australia and New Zealand: Lord Howe Island (Kraft 2009), Norfolk Island (Millar 1999), Papua New Guinea (Littler & Littler 2003), Queensland (Lewis 1985, Phillips 1997, Phillips 2002, Kraft 2009, Bostock & Holland 2010), Western Australia (Huisman & Borowitzka 2003).

Pacific Islands: New Caledonia (Noro & Abbott 1994, Phillips 1995), Republic of Palau (Lobban & N'Yeurt 2006), Samoan Archipelago (Skelton & South 1999), Solomon Islands (Womersley & Bailey 1970).

Taxonomic notes
According to Silva et al. (1996) the taxon Sargassum binderi var. ceylanicum Grunow apparently lies within the circumspection of this species but has not yet been transferred or reduced or synonymy.

Nomenclatural notes
Noro & Abbott (1994: 34) cite the authority for this species as C. Agardh.

Key references
Abbott, I.A., Fisher, J. & McDermid, K.J. (2002). Newly reported and revised marine algae from the vicinity of Nha Trang, Vietnam. In: Taxonomy of Economic Seaweeds with reference to some Pacific species. Vol. VIII. (Abbott, I.A. & Mcdermid, K.J. Eds) Vol. 8, pp. 291-321. Oceanographic Institute, Nha Trang, Vietnam: California Sea Grant College.

Ajisaka, T. (2002). Sargassum specimens from Singapore and Malaysia in the Herbarium of the Bishop Museum. In: Taxonomy of Economic Seaweeds with reference to some Pacific species. Vol. VIII. (Abbott, I.A. & Mcdermid, K.J. Eds) Vol.8, pp. 77-88. La Jolla: California Sea Grant College.

Ajisaka, T., Phang, S.M. & Yoshida, T. (1999). Preliminary report of Sargassum species collected from Malaysian coasts. In: Taxonomy of Economic Seaweeds with reference to some Pacific species Vol. VII. (Abbott, I.A. Eds) Vol.7, pp. 23-41. La Jolla, California: California Sea Grant College System.

Braune, W. (2008). Meeresalgen. Ein Farbbildführer zu den verbreiteten benthischen Grün- Braun- und Rotalgen der Weltmeere. pp. [1]-596, pls 1-266 (colour photographs). Ruggell: A.R.G. Gantner Verlag.

De Toni, G.B. (1895). Sylloge algarum omnium hucusque cognitarum. Vol. III. Fucoideae. Vol. 3 pp. [i]-xvi, [1]-638. Patavii [Padua]: Sumptibus auctoris.

Kraft, G.T. (2009). Algae of Australia. Marine benthic algae of Lord Howe Island and the southern Great Barrier Reef, 2. Brown algae. pp. [i-iv], v-vi, 1-364, 107 figs. Erratum of fig. 73 from vol. 1. Canberra & Melbourne: Australian Biological Resources Study and CSIRO Publishing.

Noro, T. & Abbott, I.A. (1994). A tentative identification of some specimens of Sargassum from the tropical south Pacific. In: Taxonomy of economic seaweeds with reference to some Pacific species. (Abbott, I.A. Eds) Vol.4, pp. 33-34. California Sea Grant College, University of California.

Noro, T., Ajisaka, T. & Yoshida, T. (1994). Species of Sargassum subgenus Sargassum (Fucales) with compressed primary branches. In: Taxonomy of economic seaweeds. (Abbott, I.A. Eds) Vol.4, pp. 23-31. La Jolla: California Sea Grant College Program.

Phillips, N. (1995). Biogeography of Sargassum (Phaeophyta) in the Pacific basin. In: Taxonomy of Economic Seaweeds. (Abbott, I.A. Eds) Vol.5, pp. 107-145. La Jolla, California: California Sea Grant College System.

Titlyanov, E.A. & Titlyanov, T.V. (2012). Marine plants of the Asian Pacific Region countries, their use and cultivation. pp. [1]-376, many col. photographs. Vladivostok: Dalnauka & A.V. Zhirmunsky Institute of Marine Biology Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Trono Jr., G. (1992). The genus Sargassum in the Philippines. In: Taxonomy of Economic Seaweeds with reference to some Pacific and Western Atlantic species. (Abbott, I.A. Eds) Vol.2, pp. 43-94. La Jolla, California: California Sea Grant College.

Tseng, C.K. & Baoran, L (1995). Studies on the glomerulate Sargassum of China: III. The species group Binderia. In: Taxonomy of Economic Seaweeds. (Abbott, I.A. Eds) Vol.5, pp. 93-106. La Jolla, California: California Sea Grant College System.

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

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=Sargassum&Species=oligocystum

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 07 May 1999 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 26 February 2013 by M.D. Guiry

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