Sargassum ligulatum C.Agardh

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Chromista
Phylum Ochrophyta
Class Phaeophyceae
Order Fucales
Family Sargassaceae
Genus Sargassum

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Houtman Abrolhos, Western Australia. John Huisman. © John Huisman (j.huisman@murdoch.edu.au). From: Huisman, J.M. (2000). Marine Plants of Australia. University of Western Australia Press, Nedlands, Western Australia..

Sargassum ligulatum C.Agardh Houtman Abrolhos, Western Australia

Publication details
Sargassum ligulatum C.Agardh 1824: 297

Original publication: Agardh, C.A. (1824). Systema Algarum. pp. [i]-xxxvii, [1]-312. Lundae [Lund]: Literis Berlingianis [Berling].
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Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Sargassum is Sargassum bacciferum (Turner) C.Agardh.

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

Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), ligulate (Stearn 1973).

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Sargassum subalatum Sonder 1845
Carpacanthus subalatus (Sonder) Kützing 1849

General environment
This is a marine species.

Type information
Type locality: Western Australia (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996: 683). Type: Herbarium Agardh, Lund No. 2405 (Noro, Ajisaka & Yoshida 1994: 26).

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Sargassum ligulatum C.Agardh)
Australia and New Zealand: Houtman Abrolhos (Huisman 1997), Western Australia (Noro, Ajisaka & Yoshida 1994, Huisman 2000).

Key references
De Toni, G.B. (1895). Sylloge algarum omnium hucusque cognitarum. Vol. III. Fucoideae. Vol. 3 pp. [i]-xvi, [1]-638. Patavii [Padua]: Sumptibus auctoris.

Noro, T., Ajisaka, T. & Yoshida, T. (1994). Species of Sargassum subgenus Sargassum (Fucales) with compressed primary branches. In: Taxonomy of economic seaweeds. (Abbott, I.A. Eds) Vol.4, pp. 23-31. La Jolla: California Sea Grant College Program.

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

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=Sargassum&Species=ligulatum

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 28 October 1999 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 15 August 2012 by Michael Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 1059 times since it was created.

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Michael 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 19 June 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:63190