Spongomorpha aeruginosa (Linnaeus) Hoek
Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Subkingdom Viridaeplantae
Phylum Chlorophycophyta
Class Ulvophyceae
Order Ulotrichales
Family Ulotrichaceae
Genus Spongomorpha
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Black Head, Co. Clare, Ireland; spring plants on disturbed rocks. 28 Apr 2006. Michael Guiry. © Michael Guiry.
New Quay, Co. Clare, Ireland; on lower-shore ledges; to 40 mm. A spring annual.. 14 Apr 2006. Michael Guiry. © Michael Guiry.
New Quay, Co. Clare, Ireland; on lower-shore ledges; to 40 mm. A spring annual.. 14 Apr 2006. Michael Guiry. © Michael Guiry.
Spongomorpha aeruginosa (Linnaeus) Hoek Black Head, Co. Clare, Ireland; spring plants on disturbed rocks
Publication details
Spongomorpha aeruginosa (Linnaeus) Hoek 1963: 225
Original publication: Hoek, C. van den (1963). Revision of the European species of Cladophora. Proefschrift...Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden. pp. xi, 248, 1 fig, 55 plates, 18 maps. Leiden: E. J. Brill.
Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Spongomorpha is Spongomorpha congregata (C.Agardh) Kützing.
Status of name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Basionym
Conferva aeruginosa Linnaeus
Type information
Lectotype locality: Anglesey, Wales Lectotype: OXF (Burrows 1991: 71).
Origin of species name
Adjective A (Latin), verdigris (Stearn 1973).
Homotypic Synonym(s)
Conferva aeruginosa Linnaeus 1753
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Cladophora pallida (Kjellman) Batters
Cladophora uncialis (O.F.Müller) Kützing
Spongomorpha lanosa (Roth) Kützing
Spongomorpha lanosa var. uncialis (O.F.Müller) Kjellman
Spongomorpha pallida (Kjellman) Wille
Acrosiphonia pallida Kjellman
Cladophora bombycina (Kjellman) Batters
Acrosiphonia bombycina Kjellman
Conferva uncialis O.F.Müller 1778
Conferva congregata C.Agardh 1824
Spongomorpha uncialis (O.F.Müller) Kützing 1843
Spongomorpha congregata (C.Agardh) Kützing 1843
Acrosiphonia lanosa (Mertens ex Roth) J.Agardh 1846
Cladophora lanosa var. uncialis (O.F.Müller) Thuret 1863
Chlorochytrium inclusum Kjellman 1883
General environment
This is a marine species.
Detailed distribution with sources
(as Cladophora pallida (Kjellman) Batters)
Europe: Britain (Newton 1931).
(as Cladophora uncialis (O.F.Müller) Kützing)
Ireland: Antrim (Adams 1907), Dublin (Sanders 1860), Mayo (Cotton 1912).
Europe: Ireland (Adams 1907, Cotton 1912).
(as Spongomorpha lanosa (Roth) Kützing)
Arctic: Canada (Arctic) (Taylor 1957).
Europe: France (Feldmann 1954), Sweden (Kylin 1949).
North America: Connecticut (Taylor 1957), Newfoundland (Taylor 1957), Nova Scotia (Taylor 1957).
(as Spongomorpha lanosa var. uncialis (O.F.Müller) Kjellman)
Arctic: Canada (Arctic) (Taylor 1957).
North America: Connecticut (Taylor 1957), Newfoundland (Taylor 1957), Nova Scotia (Taylor 1957).
(as Spongomorpha pallida (Kjellman) Wille)
Europe: Sweden (Kylin 1949).
(as Acrosiphonia pallida Kjellman)
Europe: Sweden (Kylin 1907).
(as Cladophora bombycina (Kjellman) Batters)
Europe: Britain (Newton 1931).
(as Acrosiphonia lanosa (Mertens ex Roth) J.Agardh)
Europe: Sweden (Kylin 1907).
(as Cladophora lanosa var. uncialis (O.F.Müller) Thuret)
Europe: Britain (Newton 1931), Italy (Giaccone 1969).
(as Chlorochytrium inclusum Kjellman)
Arctic: Canada (Arctic) (Lee 1980).
Ireland: Cork (Anonymous 1896), Mayo (Cotton 1912).
Europe: Britain (Batters 1902, Newton 1931), E. Greenland (Lund 1959, Pedersen 1976), Faroes (Irvine 1982), France (Feldmann 1954), Ireland (Cotton 1912), Spitsbergen (Vinogradova 1995), Sweden (Kylin 1949).
North America: Alaska (Lindstrom 1977), British Columbia (Sussmann, Mable, DeWreede & Berbee 1999), Maine (Mathieson et al. 2001).
South America: Tierra del Fuego (Ramírez & Santelices 1991).
Asia: Commander Islands (Selivanova & Zhigadlova 1997).
Antarctic and the subantarctic islands: Antarctica (Papenfuss 1964).
(as Spongomorpha aeruginosa (Linnaeus) Hoek)
Ireland: Antrim (Morton 1994), Clare (Pybus 1977, Guiry 1978, De Valéra et al. 1979), Cork (Guiry 1978), Donegal (Morton 2003), Down (Morton 1994), Waterford (Guiry 1977, Guiry 1978), Wexford (Norton 1970, Guiry 1978).
Europe: Baltic Sea (Nielsen et al. 1995), Black Sea (Gallardo et al. 1993), Britain (Burrows 1991, Hardy & Guiry 2003, Brodie et al. 2007), Faroes (Irvine 1982, Nielsen & Gunnarsson 2001), France (Mol & Coppejans 1985, Coppejans 1995, Dizerbo & Herpe 2007, Loiseaux-de Goër & Noailles 2008), Greece (Gerloff & Geissler 1974), Helgoland (Bartsch & Kuhlenkamp 2000), Iceland (Caram & Jónsson 1972), Ireland (Guiry 1977, Pybus 1977, Guiry 1978, De Valéra et al. 1979, Burrows 1991, Morton 1994), Italy (Furnari, Cormaci & Serio 1999), Netherlands (Stegenga & Mol 1983), Norway (Rueness 1997), Sardinia (Gallardo et al. 1993), Spain (Flores-Moya et al. 1995), Sweden (Tolstoy & Österlund 2003).
Atlantic Islands: Canary Islands (Gil-Rodríguez & Afonso-Carrillo 1980).
Key references
Braune, W. (2008). Meeresalgen. Ein Farbbildführer zu den verbreiteten benthischen Grün- Braun- und Rotalgen der Weltmeere. pp. [1]-596, 266 pls. Ruggell: A.R.G. Gantner Verlag.
Brodie, J., Maggs, C.A. & John, D.M. (2007). Green seaweeds of Britain and Ireland. pp. [i-v], vi-xii, 1-242, 101 figs. London: British Phycological Society.
Burrows, E.M. (1991). Seaweeds of the British Isles. Volume 2. Chlorophyta. pp. xi + 238, 60 figs, 9 plates. London: Natural History Museum Publications.
Loiseaux-de Goër, S. & Noailles, M.-C. (2008). Algues de Roscoff. pp. [1]-215, col. figs. Roscoff: Editions de la Station Biologique de Roscoff.
SAG Cultures
No records have been found on the SAG site.
NCBI Nucleotide Sequences
No sequences have been found on the NCBI site.
Created: 06 April 1996 by M.D. Guiry
Verified by: 24 November 2008 by M.D. Guiry
Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 2090 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.)
Jónsson, S. (1986). Isolement, en culture, de lignées haploïdes a partir du cycle hétéromorphe chez le Spongomorpha aeruginosa (Acrosiphoniales, Chlorophyta). Cryptogamie, Algologie 7: 149-159.
Kornmann, P. (1964). Zur Biologie von Spongomorpha aeruginosa (Linnaeus) van den Hoek. Helgoländer Wissenschaftliche Meeresuntersuchungen 11: 200-208, 4 figs.
Kornmann, P. (1967). Wachstum und Aufbau von Spongomorpha aeruginosa (Chlorophyta, Acrosiphoniales). Blumea 15: 9-16.
