Acrosiphonia arcta (Dillwyn) Gain

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Chlorophyta
Class Ulvophyceae
Order Ulotrichales
Family Ulotrichaceae
Genus Acrosiphonia

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Kilkee, Co. Clare, Ireland; lower-shore rock platforms. 25 Mar 2005. Michael Guiry. © Michael Guiry (mike.guiry@nuigalway.ie).

Kilkee, Co. Clare, Ireland; lower-shore limpets. 25 Mar 2005. Michael Guiry. © Michael Guiry (mike.guiry@nuigalway.ie).

Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick, Canada. Colin Bates (colinba@interchange.ubc.ca). © Coastal Imageworks (colinba@interchange.ubc.ca).

Acrosiphonia arcta (Dillwyn) Gain Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick, Canada

Publication details
Acrosiphonia arcta (Dillwyn) Gain 1912: 31

Original publication: Gain, L. (1912). La flore algologique des régions antarctiques et subantarctiques. In: Deuxième Expédition Antarctique Française (1908-1910)...Carcot. ( Eds), pp. 218. Paris:

Type species
A type species for this genus does not appear to have been designated.

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

Basionym
Conferva arcta Dillwyn

Type information
Type locality: In the Sea, Bantry Bay [Co. Cork, Ireland] (Dillwyn 1809: 67). Lectotype: Ellen Hutchins; NMW (Jónsson 1991: 000).

Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), close, confined, tight (Stearn 1973).

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Cladophora arcta (Dillwyn) Kützing
Conferva arcta Dillwyn 1809

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Spongomorpha centralis (Lyngbye) Kützing
Cladophora rhizophora Kützing
Conferva lanosa Roth 1806
Conferva centralis Lyngbye 1819
Cladophora lanosa (Roth) Kützing 1843
Cladophora radians Kützing 1863
Acrosiphonia centralis (Lyngbye) Kjellman 1893

General environment
This is a Marine species.

Common names

(as Acrosiphonia arcta (Dillwyn) Gain)
English: Green Tarantula Weed (Bunker et al. 2010).

Swedish: Liten grönkudde (Tolstoy & Österlund 2003).

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Cladophora arcta (Dillwyn) Kützing)
Ireland: Antrim (Dickie 1871, Adams 1907), Mayo (Cotton 1912), Wexford (Cotton 1913).

Europe: Britain (Newton 1931), Ireland (Adams 1907, Cotton 1912, Cotton 1913).

(as Spongomorpha centralis (Lyngbye) Kützing)
Arctic: Svalbard (Hop et al. 2012).

Europe: Netherlands (Stegenga & Mol 1983).

(as Conferva lanosa Roth)
Europe: Italy (Furnari, Cormaci & Serio 1999).

(as Cladophora lanosa (Roth) Kützing)
Ireland: Cork (Renouf 1931), Mayo (Cotton 1912), Wexford (Cotton 1913).

Europe: Britain (Newton 1931), Ireland (Cotton 1912, Cotton 1913), Italy (Giaccone 1969).

(as Cladophora radians Kützing)
Pacific Islands: New Caledonia (Millar & Prud'homme van Reine 2005).

(as Acrosiphonia centralis (Lyngbye) Kjellman)
Europe: Baltic Sea (Nielsen et al. 1995), France (Feldmann 1954, Dizerbo & Herpe 2007), Helgoland (Bartsch & Kuhlenkamp 2000), Sweden (Kylin 1907, Kylin 1949).

(as Acrosiphonia arcta (Dillwyn) Gain)
Arctic: Canada (Arctic) (Lee 1980), Svalbard (Hop et al. 2012, Fredriksen & Kile 2012).

Ireland: Cork (Guiry 1978), Donegal (Morton 2003), Wexford (Norton 1970, Guiry 1978).

Europe: Baltic Sea (Nielsen et al. 1995), Britain (Brodie et al. 2007), Faroe Islands (Nielsen & Gunnarsson 2001), France (Anon. 2012), Helgoland (Bartsch & Kuhlenkamp 2000), Ireland (Guiry 1978, Hardy & Guiry 2003, Guiry 2012), Portugal (Araujo et al. 2009, Bárbara et al. 2012), Spain (Bárbara et al. 2005), Spitsbergen (Vinogradova 1995), Sweden (Tolstoy & Österlund 2003).

Atlantic Islands: E. Greenland (Pedersen 1976), Greenland (Pedersen 2011), Iceland (Caram & Jónsson 1972).

North America: Alaska (Scagel et al. 1989, Lindeberg & Lindstrom 2010), British Columbia (Scagel et al. 1989, Sussmann & DeWreede 2007), Connecticut (Van Patten 2009), Maine (O?Kelly, Bellows & Wysor 2004), New Brunswick (Saunders & Kucera 2010), Oregon (Hansen 1997, Mondragon & Mondragon 2003), Washington (Scagel et al. 1989).

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

South-west Asia: Pakistan (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996).

Asia: Bering Sea (Mondragon & Mondragon 2003), Commander Islands (Selivanova & Zhigadlova 1997), Kamchatka (Klochkova, Korolyova & Kusidi 2009).

Nomenclatural notes
See Silva, Basson & Moe (1996: 934) in respect of the nomenclatural authorities; the combination was erroneously attributed to J. Agardh by Gain.

Key references
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.

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.

Burova, O.V., Tsarenko, P.M., Kovalenko, O.V., Mikhailyuk, T.I., Petlovany, O.A., Lilitska, G.G. & Bilous, O.P. (2011). Ulvophyceae. In: Algae of Ukraine: diversity, nomenclature, taxonomy, ecology and geography. Volume 3: Chlorophyta. (Tsarenko, P.M., Wasser, S.P. & Nevo, E. Eds), pp. 20-61. Ruggell: A.R.A. Gantner Verlag K.-G.

Burrows, E.M. (1991). Seaweeds of the British Isles. Volume 2. Chlorophyta. pp. [i]-xi, [1]-238, 60 figs, 9 pls. London: Natural History Museum Publications.

Klochkova, N.G., Korolyova, T.N. & Kusidi, A.E. (2009). [Atlas of algae-macrophytes Kamchatka waters. Vol 1. Green algae and brown algae]. pp. 1-216. Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky: KamchatNIRO Press.

Lindeberg, M.R. & Lindstrom, S.C. (2010). Field guide to the seaweeds of Alaska. pp. [i-]iii-iv, 1-188, numerous col. photographs. Fairbanks: Alaska Sea Grant College Program.

Mondragon, J. & Mondragon, J. (2003). Seaweeds of the Pacific Coast. Common marine algae from Alaska to Baja California. pp. iv, 5-97. Monterey, California: Sea Challengers.

Pedersen, P.M. (2011). Grønlands havalger. pp. [1] 7-208. Copenhagen: Forlaget Epsilon.DK.

Saunders, G.W. & Kucera, H. (2010). An evaluation of rbcL, tufA, UPA, LSU and ITS as DNA barcode markers for the marine green macroalgae. Cryptogamie Algologie 31(4): 487-528.

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

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=Acrosiphonia&Species=arcta

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 06 April 1996 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 15 April 2013 by Wendy Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 5055 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, D. (1971). Des lignées apocaryogamiques et leur ségrégation dans la population de l'Acrosiphonia arcta, Chlorophycée marine d'Helgoland. Helgoländer Wissenschaftliche Meeresuntersuchungen 22: 281-294.
Jónsson, S. (1968). Sur l'existence de lignées micto-haploïdes isolées dans la population naturelle de l'Acrosiphonia arcta (Dillw.) J. Ag. d'Héligoland. Compte Rendu Hebdomadaire des Séances de l’Académie des Sciences. Paris. Série D 267: 53-55.
Kornmann, P. (1964). Der Lebenszyklus von Acrosiphonia arcta. Helgoländer Wissenschaftliche Meeresuntersuchungen 11: 110-117, 4 figs.
Kornmann, P. (1965). Was ist Acrosiphonia arcta?. Helgoländer Wissenschaftliche Meeresuntersuchungen 12: 40-51, 7 figs.
O'Donnell, J. J. & Percival, E. (1958). The polysaccharides of Acrosiphonia centralis (Spongomorpha arcta ). Proceedings of the International Seaweed Symposium 3: 75-76.
O'Donnell, J.J. & Percival, E. (1959). Structural investigation on the water-soluble polysaccharides from the green sea-weed Acrosiphonia centalis (Spongomorpha arcta). J. Chem. Soc. 1959: 2168-2178.
Sussmann, A.V. & Scrosati, R.A. (2011). Morphological variation in Acrosiphonia arcta (Codiolales, Chlorophyta) from environmentally different habitats in Nova Scotia, Canad. Rhodora 113: 87-105.
van Oppen, M.J.H., Diekmann, O.E., Wiencke, C., Stam, W.T. & Olsen, J.L. (1994). Tracking dispersal routes: phylogeography of the Arctic-Antarctic disjunct seaweed Acrosiphonia arcta (Chlorophyta). Journal of Phycology 30: 67-80, 10 figs, 3 tables.

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