Anadyomene plicata C.Agardh
Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Chlorophyta
Class Ulvophyceae
Order Cladophorales
Family Anadyomenaceae
Genus Anadyomene
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Nth Turtle Island, off Port Hedland, Western Australia. 25 May 2011. John Huisman. © John Huisman (j.huisman@murdoch.edu.au).

Long Reef, Kimberley, Western Australia. 25 May 2011. John Huisman. © M.D. Guiry (mike.guiry@nuigalway.ie).
Publication details
Anadyomene plicata C.Agardh 1823: 400-401
Original publication: Agardh, C.A. (1823). Species algarum rite cognitae, cum synonymis, differentiis specificis et descriptionibus succinctis. Volumen primum pars posterior. pp. [vii-viii], [399]-531. Lundae [Lund]: ex officina Berlingiana.
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Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Anadyomene is Anadyomene flabellata J.V.Lamouroux.
Status of name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), folded into pleats or furrows, usually longitudinally (Stearn 1973).
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Calomena brownii J.E.Gray 1866
Anadyomene brownii (J.E.Gray) J.Agardh 1887
General environment
This is a marine species.
Distribution by country
Type information
Type locality: "Ravak" (Rauki), Waigeo Island, Moluccas, Indonesia (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996: 755).
Detailed distribution with sources
(as Anadyomene plicata C.Agardh)
Africa: Somalia (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996).
Indian Ocean Islands: Seychelles (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996).
South-east Asia: Indonesia (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Malaysia (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Philippines (Silva, Meñez & Moe 1987), Vietnam (Pham-Hoàng 1969, Tsutsui et al. 2005, Tien 2007).
Australia and New Zealand: Papua New Guinea (Coppejans et al. 2001, Leliaert & Coppejans 2004), Queensland (Lewis 1987, Cribb 1996, Phillips 1997, Phillips 2002, Bostock & Holland 2010), Western Australia (Huisman et al. 2009).
(as Anadyomene brownii (J.E.Gray) J.Agardh)
South-east Asia: Indonesia (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Leliaert & Coppejans 2004), Philippines (Silva, Meñez & Moe 1987).
Australia and New Zealand: Houtman Abrolhos (Huisman 1997), Northern Territory (Womersley 1958, Lewis 1987), Queensland (Lewis 1987, Phillips 1997, Phillips 2002, Bostock & Holland 2010), Western Australia (Huisman 2000, Huisman & Borowitzka 2003).
Pacific Islands: Solomon Islands (Womersley & Bailey 1970).
Key references
Leliaert, F. & Coppejans, E. (2004). Crystalline cell inclusions: a new diagnostic character in the Cladophorophyceae (Chlorophyta). Phycologia 43: 189-203.
SAG Cultures
SAG Cultures may be viewed at http://sagdb.uni-goettingen.de/showstrains.php?genus=Anadyomene&species=plicata
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=Anadyomene&Species=plicata
Created: 04 July 1999 by M.D. Guiry
Verified by: 08 June 2006 by Wendy Guiry
Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 827 times since it was created.
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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 20 June 2013.
Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:64721




