Gayralia oxysperma (Kützing) K.L.Vinogradova ex Scagel et al.

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Chlorophyta
Class Ulvophyceae
Order Ulotrichales
Family Gayraliaceae
Genus Gayralia

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Hawaii; scale 10 mm. 01 Jul 2011. J.M. Huisman. © J.M. Huisman. From: Huisman JM, Abbott IA, Smith CM (2007). Hawaiian reef plants. University of Hawaii Sea Grant College Program, Honolulu. 264 p. Available from Seagrant, University of Hawai'i.

Hawaii; surface cells; scale 40 µm. 01 Jul 2011. J.M. Huisman. © J.M. Huisman. From: Huisman JM, Abbott IA, Smith CM (2007). Hawaiian reef plants. University of Hawaii Sea Grant College Program, Honolulu. 264 p. Available from Seagrant, University of Hawai'i.

Spain, North of Galicia, 2009. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

Tanzania; detail of surface of the frond. Eurico Oliveira. © Eurico Oliveira (euricodo@usp.br). From: Oliveira, E., Österlund, K. & Mtolera, M.S.P. (2005). Marine Plants of Tanzania. A field guide to the seaweeds and seagrasses. pp. 267, Numerous coloured illustrations and line drawings. Stockholm: Botany Department, Stockholm University.

Tanzania. Katrin Østerlund. © Katrin Oesterlund (Katrin.Osterlund@uadm.uu.se). From: Oliveira, E., Österlund, K. & Mtolera, M.S.P. (2005). Marine Plants of Tanzania. A field guide to the seaweeds and seagrasses. pp. 267, Numerous coloured illustrations and line drawings. Stockholm: Botany Department, Stockholm University.

Gayralia oxysperma (Kützing) K.L.Vinogradova ex Scagel et al. Hawaii; scale 10 mm

Publication details
Gayralia oxysperma (Kützing) K.L.Vinogradova ex Scagel et al. 1989: 72

Original publication: Scagel, R.F., Gabrielson, P.W., Garbary, D.J., Golden, L., Hawkes, M.W., Lindstrom, S.C., Oliveira, J.C. & Widdowson, T.B. (1989). A synposis of the benthic marine algae of British Columbia, southeast Alaska, Washington and Oregon. Phycological Contributions, University of British Columbia 3: vi + 532.

Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Gayralia is Ulva oxysperma Kützing.

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

Basionym
Ulva oxysperma Kützing

Type information
Type locality: Baltic Sea, Germany (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996: 740). Lectotype: L 938.53.82a (Womersley 1984: 138).

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Ulva oxysperma Kützing 1843
Monostroma oxyspermum (Kützing) Doty 1947
Ulvaria oxysperma (Kützing) Bliding 1969

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Monostroma oxyspermum f. orbiculatum (Thuret)
Ulva oxysperma f. wittrockii (Bornet) Bliding
Ulvaria oxysperma f. wittrockii (Bornet) Bliding
Ulva oxycocca Kützing 1845
Monostroma orbiculatum Thuret 1854
Monostroma oxycoccum Thuret 1854
Monostroma crepidinium Farlow 1881
Monostroma tubiforme Iwamoto 1960

General environment
This is a Marine species.

Common names

(as Gayralia oxysperma (Kützing) K.L.Vinogradova ex Scagel et al.)
Swedish: Ljus havssallt (Tolstoy & Österlund 2003).

Distribution by country

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Monostroma oxyspermum f. orbiculatum (Thuret))
Europe: France (Feldmann & Magne 1964).

(as Ulva oxysperma f. wittrockii (Bornet) Bliding)
Europe: Italy (Giaccone 1969).

(as Ulvaria oxysperma f. wittrockii (Bornet) Bliding)
Europe: Adriatic (Gallardo et al. 1993), Black Sea (Gallardo et al. 1993), France (Gallardo et al. 1993), Italy (Gallardo et al. 1993, Gallardo et al. 1993), Spain (Ballesteros & Romero 1982, Gallardo et al. 1993).

(as Monostroma orbiculatum Thuret)
Ireland: Mayo (Cotton 1912).

Europe: Britain (Batters 1902, Newton 1931), Ireland (Cotton 1912).

(as Monostroma oxycoccum Thuret)
Africa: Morocco (Dangeard 1949).

(as Monostroma crepidinium Farlow)
Europe: Britain (Batters 1902, Newton 1931, Newton 1931 ).

Australia and New Zealand: New Zealand (Chapman 1956, Broady et al. 2012).

(as Monostroma oxyspermum (Kützing) Doty)
Ireland: Antrim (Morton 1994), Derry (Morton 1994), Down (Morton 1994), Mayo (Burrows 1991).

Europe: Britain (Burrows 1991, Hardy & Guiry 2003, Whitton et al. 2003), France (Feldmann & Magne 1964, Bouxin & Dizerbo 1971, Dizerbo & Herpe 2007, Anon. 2012), Helgoland (Bartsch & Kuhlenkamp 2000), Ireland (Guiry 1978, Burrows 1991, Morton 1994), Netherlands (Stegenga & Mol 1983), Norway (Rueness 1997), Portugal (Cremades et al., 2002), Spain (Sierra & Fernández 1984, Granja, Cremades & Barbara 1992, Bárbara et al. 1995, Bárbara, Cremades & Pérez-Cirera 1995, Bárbara & Cremades 1996, Calvo, Bárbara & Cremades 1999, Veiga Villar 1999, Peña & Bárbara 2002, Valenzuela Miranda 2002, Gorostiaga et al., 2004, Bárbara et al. 2005, Cires Rodriguez & Cuesta Moliner 2010).

Atlantic Islands: Bermuda (Taylor 1957, Taylor 1960).

North America: Alaska (Lindstrom 1977), British Columbia (Scagel 1957), California (Abbott & Hollenberg 1976, Silva 1979), Florida (Taylor 1960, Dawes 1974, Schneider & Searles 1991), Georgia (Schneider & Searles 1991), Maine (Mathieson et al. 2001), New Brunswick (Taylor 1957), New Jersey (Taylor 1957), Newfoundland (Taylor 1957), North Carolina (Schneider & Searles 1991), South Carolina (Taylor 1957, Taylor 1960, Schneider & Searles 1991), Virginia (Humm 1979), Washington (Scagel 1957).

Caribbean Islands: Bahamas (Taylor 1969), Cuba (Suárez 2005), Trinidad (Richardson 1975).

South America: Brazil (Taylor 1960, Joly 1965).

Africa: Mauritius (Børgesen 1940).

Asia: Japan (Yoshida 1998), Taiwan (Anon. 2012).

South-east Asia: Vietnam (Tien 2007).

Australia and New Zealand: Victoria (Day et al. 1995).

(as Monostroma tubiforme Iwamoto)
Asia: Korea (Lee & Kang 2001).

(as Ulvaria oxysperma (Kützing) Bliding)
Arctic: Canada (Arctic) (Lee 1980).

Europe: Adriatic (Gallardo et al. 1993), Balearic Islands (Gallardo et al. 1993), Black Sea (Gallardo et al. 1993), Corsica (Gallardo et al. 1993), France (Gallardo et al. 1993), Italy (Gallardo et al. 1993), Romania (Caraus 2002, Caraus 2012), Spain (Gallardo et al. 1993, Flores-Moya et al. 1995, Cambra Sánchez, Álvarez Cobelas & Aboal Sanjurjo 1998), Turkey (Europe) (Gallardo et al. 1993).

Atlantic Islands: Azores (Tittley & Neto 2005), Canary Islands (Guadalupe et al. 1995), Iceland (Munda 1979).

South America: Brazil (Oliveira Filho 1977).

Australia and New Zealand: New South Wales (Womersley 1984, Millar & Kraft 1994), Queensland (Cribb 1996, Phillips 1997, Phillips 2002, Bostock & Holland 2010), South Australia (Womersley 1984), Tasmania (Womersley 1984), Victoria (Womersley 1984).

(as Gayralia oxysperma (Kützing) K.L.Vinogradova ex Scagel et al.)
Europe: Adriatic (Giaccone 1978), Balearic Islands (Pericás 1984, Ribera Siguán & Gómez Garreta 1985), Baltic Sea (Nielsen et al. 1995), Britain (Brodie et al. 2007), France (Anon. 2012), Ireland (Guiry 2012), Italy (Furnari, Cormaci & Serio 1999), Portugal (Araujo et al. 2009), Romania (Caraus 2012), Spain (Gallardo et al. 1985, Calvo & Bárbara 2002, Bárbara et al., 2003, Bermejo et al. 2010, Hernández et al. 2010), Sweden (Tolstoy & Österlund 2003), Turkey (Europe) (Taskin et al. 2008 ), Veneto (Sfriso, A.).

Atlantic Islands: Canary Islands (Haroun et al. 2002, Aldanondo-Aristizábal, Domínguez-Alvarez & Gil-Rodríguez 2003, Gil-Rodríguez et al. 2003, John et al. 2004, Anon 2011).

North America: Alaska (Scagel et al. 1989), British Columbia (Scagel et al. 1989), California (Scagel et al. 1989, Miller 2012), Florida (Littler, Littler & Hanisak 2008), Oregon (Hansen 1997), Washington (Scagel et al. 1989).

Central America: México (Pacific) (Pedroche et al. 2005).

Caribbean Islands: Bahamas (Ballantine & Aponte 2003), Caribbean (Littler & Littler 2000), Trinidad & Tobago (Duncan & Lee Lum 2006).

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

South America: Brazil (Moura 2010, Pellizzari et al. 2013), Venezuela (Ganesan 1990).

Africa: Eritrea (Ateweberhan & Prud'homme van Reine 2005), Kenya (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Bolton, Oyieke & Gwanda 2007), Madagascar (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Mauritius (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Morocco (Benhissoune, Boudouresque & Verlaque 2001), Nigeria (John, Lawson & Ameka, 2003, John et al. 2004), Tanzania (Oliveira, Österlund & Mtolera 2005).

South-west Asia: Turkey (Asia) (Taskin et al. 2008 ).

South-east Asia: Myanmar (Burma) (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996).

Australia and New Zealand: New Zealand (Broady et al. 2012).

Pacific Islands: Federated States of Micronesia (Lobban & Tsuda 2003), Fiji (N'Yeurt, South & Keats 1996, South & Skelton 2003), Hawaiian Islands (Abbott & Huisman, 2004, McDermid et al. 2005), Mariana Islands (Tsuda 2003).

Taxonomic notes
See note in Silva et al. (1996: 740).

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.

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.

Dawes, C.J. & Mathieson, A.C. (2008). The seaweeds of Florida. pp. [i]- viii, [1]-591, [592], pls I-LI. Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida.

Gabrielson, P.W., Lindstrom, S.C. & O'Kelly, C.J. (2012). Keys to the seaweeds and seagrasses of Southeast Alaska, British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon. Phycological Contribution No. 8. pp. [i]-iv, 1-192. Hillsborough, North Carolina: PhycoID.

Huisman, J.M., Abbott, I.A., Smith, C.M. (2007). Hawaiian reef plants. pp. [1]-264, numerous colour photographs. Honolulu: A publication of the University of Hawai'i Sea Grant College Program.

Pedroche, F.F., Silva, P.C., Aguilar-Rosas, L.E., Dreckmann, K.M. & Aguilar-Rosas, R. (2005). Catálogo de las algas marinas bentónicas del Pacífico de México. I. Chlorophycota. pp. i-viii, 17-146. Ensenada, México: Universidad Autónoma de Baja California.

Rodríguez-Prieto, C., Ballesteros, E., Boisset, F. & Afonso-Carrillo, J. (2013). Guía de las macroalgas y fanerógamas marinas del Mediterráneo occidental. pp. [1]-656. Barcelona: Ediciones Omega, S.A..

Sfriso, A. (2011). Chlorophyta multicellulari e fanerogame acquatiche. Ambiente di transizione italiani e litorali adiacenti. pp. [1]-318, pls 1-94. Bologna: Arpa Emilia-Romagna.

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

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=Gayralia&Species=oxysperma

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 06 April 1996 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 07 May 2013 by M.D. Guiry

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