Gracilaria salicornia (C.Agardh) E.Y.Dawson
Gracilaria salicornia (C.Agardh) E.Y.Dawson Mbweni, Zanzibar; mangroves
Publication details
Gracilaria salicornia (C.Agardh) E.Y.Dawson 1954: 4, fig. 3
Original publication: Dawson, E.Y. (1954). Notes on tropical Pacific marine algae. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 53: 1-7, 4 figs.
Type species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Gracilaria is Gracilaria compressa (C.Agardh) Greville.
Status of name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Basionym
Sphaerococcus salicornia C.Agardh
Type information
Type locality: Mariana Islands (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996: 176). Notes: According to South & Skelton (2003), the type locality is "ad litora Unalaschkae', probably Manila, Philippine Islands fide Dawson 1954a: 2. According to Millar & Xia (1997), the type locality is Manila Harbor, Philippines. According to Abbott (1994: 117), the type locality is Manila Bay (although reported as being from Alaska because of a mix-up of labels).
Homotypic Synonym(s)
Sphaerococcus salicornia C.Agardh 1820
Corallopsis salicornia (C.Agardh) Greville 1830
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Corallopsis dichotoma Ruprecht 1850
Corallopsis cacalia J.Agardh 1852
Corallopsis opuntia J.Agardh 1872
Corallopsis concrescens Reinbold 1907
Gracilaria cacalia (J.Agardh) E.Y.Dawson 1954
General environment
This is a marine species.
Common names used in commerce, often for edible algae
canot-canot {Arab}; caocaoayan {Ilo}
Detailed distribution with sources
(as Corallopsis opuntia J.Agardh)
Africa: Mauritius (Børgesen 1943).
(as Gracilaria salicornia (C.Agardh) E.Y.Dawson)
Africa: Eritrea (Ateweberhan & Prud'homme van Reine 2005), Kenya (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Madagascar (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Mauritius (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Mozambique (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), South Africa (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, De Clerck, Tronchin & Schils 2005, Iyer et al 2005), Tanzania (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Oliveira, Österlund & Mtolera 2005).
Indian Ocean Islands: Aldabra Islands (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Andaman Islands (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Laccadive Islands (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Nicobar Islands (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Réunion (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Seychelles (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996).
South-west Asia: India (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Sahoo et al. 2001), Iran (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Sohrabipour & Rabii 1999), Kuwait (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Oman (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Pakistan (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Sri Lanka (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Coppejans et al. 2009), Yemen (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996).
Asia: China (Tseng 1984, Bangmei 1985, Xia & Zhang 1999), Japan (Yoshida, Nakajima & Nakata 1990, Yoshida 1998), Taiwan (Chiang 1985, Chiang 1985).
South-east Asia: Indonesia (Verheij & Prud'homme van Reine 1993, Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Tseng & Xia 1999), Malaysia (Phang 1994, Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Yamamoto & Phang 1997, Lim, Thong & Phang 2001), Philippines (Abbott 1985, Silva, Meñez & Moe 1987, Abbott 1994, Tseng & Xia 1999, Kraft et al. 1999, Kapraun & Dunwoody 2002, Gurgel & Fredericq 2004), Singapore (Phang 1994, Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Thailand (Lewmanomont 1994, Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Tseng & Xia 1999, Terada, Yamamoto & Muraoka 1999), Vietnam (Nguyen H. Dinh 1992, Tseng & Xia 1999, Ohno, Terada & Yamamoto 1999, Abbott, Fisher & McDermid 2002, Tsutsui et al. 2005).
Australia and New Zealand: Queensland (Lewis 1984, Cribb 1996, Phillips 1997, Millar & Xia 1997, Phillips 2002), Western Australia (Huisman & Borowitzka 2003).
Pacific Islands: Federated States of Micronesia (Meneses & Abbott 1987, Lobban & Tsuda 2003), Fiji (South & Skelton 2003, Littler & Littler 2003), Guam (Tsuda 1985, Meneses & Abbott 1987), Hawaiian Islands (Magruder & Hunt 1979, Abbott 1985, Abbott 1999, Smith, Hunter & Smith 2002, McDermid et al. 2005), Northern Mariana Islands (Meneses & Abbott 1987), Solomon Islands (Womersley & Bailey 1970).
(as Gracilaria cacalia (J.Agardh) E.Y.Dawson)
Africa: Egypt (Papenfuss 1968), Ethiopia (Papenfuss 1968).
South-west Asia: Saudi Arabia (Papenfuss 1968).
Asia: China (Bangmei 1985).
South-east Asia: Singapore (Teo & Wee 1983).
Australia and New Zealand: Queensland (Lewis 1984).
Taxonomic notes
According to Abbott (1995: 188), G. crassa Harvey ex. J. Agardh is a synonym of this species.
Source of synonymy
Meneses, I. & Abbott, I.A. (1987). Gracilaria and Polycavernosa (Rhodophyta) from Micronesia. Micronesica 20: 187-200, 13 figs.
Key references
Abbott, I.A. (1985). Gracilaria from Hawaii: key, list and distribution of the species. In: Taxonomy of economic seaweeds with reference to some Pacific and Caribbean species. (Abbott, I.A. & Norris, J.N. Eds) Vol.I, pp. 85-87. California Sea Grant College Program.
Abbott, I.A. (1985). Gracilaria from the Philippines: list and distribution of the species. In: Taxonomy of Economic Seaweeds with Reference to Some Pacific and Caribbean Species. (Abbott, I.A. & Norris, J.N. Eds) Vol.I, pp. 89-90.
Abbott, I.A. (1988). Some species of Gracilaria and Polycavernosa from Thailand. In: Taxonomy of economic seaweeds with reference to some Pacific and Caribbean species. (Abbott, I.A. Eds) Vol.2, pp. 137-150. La Jolla, California: California Sea Grant College Program [Report T-CSGCP-018].
Abbott, I.A. (1994). New records and a reassessment of Gracilaria (Rhodophyta) from the Philippines. In: Taxonomy of economic seaweeds with reference to some Pacific species. (Abbott, I.A. Eds) Vol.4, pp. 111-118. Calif. Sea Grant College.
Abbott, I.A., Fisher, J. & McDermid, K.J. (2002). New 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.
Chiang, Y.M. (1985). Gracilaria from Taiwan: key, list and distribution of the species. In: Taxonomy of economic seaweeds with reference to some Pacific and Caribbean species. (Abbott, I.A. & Norris, J.N. Eds) Vol.I, pp. 81-83. California Sea Grant College Program.
Iyer, R., Tronchin, E.M., Bolton, J.J. & Coyne, V.E. (2005). Molecular systematics of the Gracilariaceae (Gracilariales, Rhodophyta) with emphasis on Southern Africa. Journal of Phycology 41: 672-684.
Kapraun, D.F. & Dunwoody, J.T. (2002). Relationship of nuclear genome size to some reproductive cell parameters in the Florideophycidae (Rhodophyta). Phycologia 41: 507-516.
Lewmanomont, K. (1994). The species of Gracilaria from Thailand. In: Taxonomy of economic seaweeds. (Abbott, I.A. Eds) Vol.4, pp. 135-148. La Jolla: California Sea Grant College Program [Report T-CSGCP-031].
McDermid, K.J., Stuercke, B. & Haleakala, O.J. (2005). Total dietary fiber content in Hawaiian marine algae. Botanica Marina 48: 437-440.
Millar, A.J.K. & Xia, B.M. (1997). Studies on terete species of Australian Gracilaria. In: Taxonomy of Economic Seaweeds. (Abbott, I.A. Eds) Vol.6, pp. 103-109. La Jolla, California: California Sea Grant College System.
Nguyen H. Dinh (1992). Vietnamese species of Gracilaria and Gracilariopsis. In: Taxonomy of Economic Seaweeds. (Abbott, I.A. Eds) Vol.3, pp. 207-210. La Jolla, California: California Sea Grant College.
Ohno, M., Terada, R. & Yamamoto, H. (1999). The species of Gracilaria from Vietnam. In: Taxonomy of Economic Seaweeds with reference to some Pacific species Vol. VII. (Abbott, I.A. Eds) Vol.7, pp. 99-111. La Jolla, California: California Sea Grant College System.
Phang, S.-M. (1994). Some species of Gracilaria from Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore. In: Taxonomy of Economic Seaweeds with reference to some Pacific and Caribbean species. (Abbott, I.A. Eds) Vol.4, pp. 125-134. La Jolla, California: California Sea Grant College.
Tsuda, R.T. (1985). Gracilaria from Micronesia: key, list and distribution of the species. In: Taxonomy of economic seaweeds with reference to some Pacific and Caribbean species. (Abbott, I.A. & Norris, J.N. Eds) Vol.I, pp. 91-92. California Sea Grant College Program.
Xia, B.M. (1985). Gracilaria from China: key, list and distribution of the species. In: Taxonomy of economic seaweeds with reference to some Pacific and caribbean species. (Abbott, I.A. & Norris, J.N. Eds) Vol.I, pp. 71-76. California Sea Grant College Program.
Yamamoto, H. & Phang Siew Moi (1997). An adelphoparasitic alga growing on Gracilaria salicornia from Malaysia. In: Taxonomy of Economic Seaweeds. (Abbott, I.A. Eds) Vol.6, pp. 91-95. La Jolla, California: California Sea Grant College System.
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References
(Please note: only references with the binomials in the title are included. The information is from the Literature database.)
Lim, P.E., Thong, K.L. & Phang, S.M. (2001). Molecular differentiation of two morphological variants of Gracilaria salicornia. Journal of Applied Phycology 13(4): 335-342.
Smith, J.E., Hunter, C.L., Conklin, E.J., Most, R., Sauvage, T., Squair, C. & Smith, C.M. (2004). Ecology of the invasive red alga Gracilaria salicornia (Rhodophyta) on O'ahu, Hawai'i. Pacific Science 58: 325-343.
Terada, R., Yamamoto, H. & Muraoka, D. (1999). Observations on an adelphoparasite growing on Gracilaria salicornia from Thailand. In: Taxonomy of Economic Seaweeds with reference to some Pacific species Vol. VII. (Abbott, I.A. Eds) Vol.7, pp. 121-129. La Jolla, California: California Sea Grant College System.
Xia, B. (1986). On Gracilaria salicornia (C. Agardh) Dawson. Chinese Journale of Oceanology and Limnology 4: 100-107, 1 table, 1 plate.
Yamamoto, H. & Phang Siew Moi (1997). An adelphoparasitic alga growing on Gracilaria salicornia from Malaysia. In: Taxonomy of Economic Seaweeds. (Abbott, I.A. Eds) Vol.6, pp. 91-95. La Jolla, California: California Sea Grant College System.
Yamamoto, H. (1986). Congracilaria babae gen. et sp. nov. (Gracilariaceae), an adelphoparasite growing on Gracilaria salicornia of Japan. Bulletin of the Faculty of Fisheries Hokkaido University 37: 281-290.
