Acetabularia major G.Martens

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Chlorophyta
Class Ulvophyceae
Order Dasycladales
Family Polyphysaceae
Genus Acetabularia

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Kenting National Park, Pingtong County, Taiwan.. 05 Apr 1995. Huang Su-fang. © Sue Huang (sfhuang@ntm.gov.tw). From: http://www.ntm.gov.tw/seaweeds..

Cap; Photo-Atlas of living Dasycladales. Sigrid Berger. © Sigrid Berger (sberger@spup.de).

Publication details
Acetabularia major G.Martens 1866: 25, pl. IV: fig. 3

Original publication: Martens, G. von (1866). Die Tange. Die Preussische Expedition nach Ost-Asien. Nach amtlichen Quellen. Botanischer Theil. pp. 1-152, pls I-VII. Berlin: Verlag de Königlichen Geheimen Ober-Hofbuchdruckerei (R.Y. Decker).
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Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Acetabularia is Acetabularia acetabulum (Linnaeus) P.C.Silva.

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

Infrageneric classification
Subgenus Acicularia

Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), great.

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Acetabularia crenulata var. major Sonder 1871
Acetabularia denudata Zanardini 1878
Acetabularia gigas Solms-Laubach 1895

General environment
This is a marine species.

Type information
Type locality: "Simaharadscha" (Ban Si Racha?), Thailand (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996: 892).

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Acetabularia major G.Martens)
Asia: Japan (Okamura 1936), Taiwan (Berger et al. 2003, Anon. 2012, Anon. 2012).

South-east Asia: Indonesia (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Philippines (Silva, Meñez & Moe 1987), Vietnam (Tien 2007).

Australia and New Zealand: Queensland (Lewis 1987, Phillips 1997, Phillips 2002, Bostock & Holland 2010).

(as Acetabularia gigas Solms-Laubach)
Asia: Japan (Okamura 1936), Taiwan (Anon. 2012).

Key references
Berger, S., Fettweiss, U., Gleissberg, S., Liddle, L.B., Richter, U., Sawitzky, H. & Zuccarello, G.C. (2003). 18S rDNA phylogeny and evaluation of cap development in Polyphysaceae (formerly Acetabulariaceae; Dasyladales, Chlorophyta). Phycologia 42: 506-561.

Zemke-White, W.L. & Ohno, M. (1999). World seaweed utilisation: an end-of-century summary. Journal of Applied Phycology 11: 369-376.

UTEX Cultures
UTEX Culture LB 2697 Acetabularia major
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SAG Cultures
SAG Cultures may be viewed at http://sagdb.uni-goettingen.de/showstrains.php?genus=Acetabularia&species=major

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=Acetabularia&Species=major

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 22 July 1999 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 14 January 2011 by M.D. Guiry

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References
(Please note: only references with the binomials in the title are included. The information is from the Literature database.)

Schweiger, H.G., Berger, S., Kloppstech, K., Apel, K. & Schweiger, M. (1974). Some fine structures and biochemical features of Acetabularia major (Chlorophyta, Dasycladaceae) grown in the laboratory. Phycologia 13: 11-20, 17 figs, 5 tables.

Linking to this page: http://www.algaebase.org/search/species/detail/?species_id=19479

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 26 May 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:64530