Acrochaete repens Pringsheim

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Chlorophyta
Class Ulvophyceae
Order Ulvales
Family Ulvellaceae
Genus Acrochaete

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Publication details
Acrochaete repens Pringsheim 1862: 4, 8, pl. XIX [II in reprint]

Original publication: Pringsheim, N. (1862). Beiträge zur Morphologie der Meeres-Algen. Physikalische Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1862: 1-37, pls I-VIII.
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Type species
This is the type species (holotype) of the genus Acrochaete.

Status of name
This name is currently regarded as a taxonomic synonym of Ulvella repens (Pringsheim) R.Nielsen, C.J.O'Kelly & B.Wysor

Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), creeping, prostrate and rooting (Stearn 1973).

Synonym(s)
No synonyms are currently included in AlgaeBase.

General environment
This is a Marine species.

Type information
Type locality: Nordsee, auf Scytosiphon filum, Leathesia marina, etc. [Helgoland] (Pringsheim 1862: 8). Lectotype: original illustration by Pringsheim (1862, pl. XIX; reprint pl. II) selected by Burrows (1991: 102): C: CAT2450 (dried material of isolate RN090704-1) (epitype) (Nielsen et al. 2013: 52).

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Acrochaete repens Pringsheim)
Arctic: Canada (Arctic) (Lee 1980), Svalbard (Hop et al. 2012).

Ireland: Cork (Guiry 1978), Wexford (Norton 1970, Guiry 1978, Burrows 1991).

Europe: Baltic Sea (Nielsen et al. 1995), Britain (Newton 1931, Burrows 1991, Hardy & Guiry 2003, Brodie et al. 2007), Faroe Islands (Irvine 1982, Nielsen & Gunnarsson 2001), France (Dizerbo & Herpe 2007, Anon. 2012), Helgoland (Bartsch & Kuhlenkamp 2000), Ireland (Guiry 1978, Burrows 1991, Guiry 2012), Italy (Gallardo et al. 1993), Netherlands (Stegenga & Mol 1983), Norway (Rueness 1997), Spain (Miranda 1931, Miranda 1934, Bárbara et al. 2005, Cires Rodriguez & Cuesta Moliner 2010), Spitsbergen (Vinogradova 1995), Sweden (Kylin 1907, Kylin 1949), Turkey (Europe) (Taskin et al. 2008 ).

Atlantic Islands: Canary Islands (Haroun et al. 2002, Gil-Rodríguez et al. 2003, John et al. 2004, Anon 2011), Iceland (Caram & Jónsson 1972).

North America: British Columbia (Scagel et al. 1989), Massachusetts (Taylor 1957, O?Kelly, Bellows & Wysor 2004), New Hampshire (Mathieson & Hehre 1986), Washington (Scagel et al. 1989).

South-west Asia: Levant states (Gallardo et al. 1993), Turkey (Asia) (Taskin et al. 2008 ).

Asia: Russia (Perestenko 1980).

Nomenclatural notes
Dat of publication uncertain: Pringsheim 1863: 330 (reprint, p. 8) (Burrows, 1991: 101); 1862: 8 (Brodie et al., 2007: 115); 1862: 4, 8, pl. II (INA); 1862 (Nielsen et al. 2013: 52). The scan attached may be a reprint and is dated 1863. - (11 Mar 2013) - Wendy Guiry

Source of synonymy
Nielsen, R., Petersen, G., Seberg, O., Daugbjerg, N., O'Kelly, C.J. & Wysor, B. (2013). Revision of the genus Ulvella (Ulvellaceae, Ulvophyceae) based on morphology and tufA gene sequences of species in culture, with Acrochaete and Pringsheimiella placed in synonymy. Phycologia 52(1): 37-56.

Key references
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. [i]-xi, [1]-238, 60 figs, 9 pls. London: Natural History Museum Publications.

Nielsen, R., Petersen, G., Seberg, O., Daugbjerg, N., O'Kelly, C.J. & Wysor, B. (2013). Revision of the genus Ulvella (Ulvellaceae, Ulvophyceae) based on morphology and tufA gene sequences of species in culture, with Acrochaete and Pringsheimiella placed in synonymy. Phycologia 52(1): 37-56.

Pringsheim, N. (1862). Beiträge zur Morphologie der Meeres-Algen. Physikalische Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1862: 1-37, pls I-VIII.

Rinkel, B.E., Hayes, P., Gueidan, C. & Brodie, J. (2012). A molecular phylogeny of Acrochaete and other endophytic green algae (Ulvales, Chlorophyta). Journal of Phycology 48(4): 1020-1027.

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

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=Acrochaete&Species=repens

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 06 April 1996 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 13 March 2013 by M.D. Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 1243 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.)

South, G.R. (1968). Aspects of the development and reproduction of Acrochaete repens and Bolbocoleon piliferum. Canadian Journal of Botany 46: 101-113.

Linking to this page: http://www.algaebase.org/search/species/detail/?species_id=192

Citing AlgaeBase
Cite this record as:
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 25 May 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:77324