Urospora penicilliformis (Roth) Areschoug

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Chlorophyta
Class Ulvophyceae
Order Ulotrichales
Family Ulotrichaceae
Genus Urospora

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Claddagh, Co. Galway, Ireland; upper-shore rocks. 06 Apr 2009. Michael Guiry. © Michael Guiry (mike.guiry@nuigalway.ie).

Urospora penicilliformis (Roth) Areschoug Claddagh, Co. Galway, Ireland; upper-shore rocks

Publication details
Urospora penicilliformis (Roth) Areschoug 1866: 16

Original publication: Areschoug, J.E. (1866). Observationes phycologicae. Particula prima. De Confervaceis nonnullis. Nova Acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarum Upsaliensis, Ser. 3 6(2): 26, Plates I-IV.

Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Urospora is Urospora mirabilis Areschoug.

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

Basionym
Conferva peniciliformis Roth

Type information
Syntype localities: Ad littora mar. sept. pr. Eckwarden [Niedersachsen, Germany] Trentepohl & in insula Norderney Mertens (Roth 1806: 71). Isotype: LD herb. alg. Agardh, no. 7417 Notes: According to Womersley (1984: 221) the type is from Germany (North Sea ); probably lost.

Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), shaped like a pencil or an artists camel-hair brush (Stearn 1973).

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Conferva peniciliformis Roth 1806
Hormiscia penicilliformis (Roth) Areschoug 1866
Codiolum penicilliforme (Roth) P.C.Silva 1957

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Urospora isogona (Smith) Batters
Conferva isogona Smith
Conferva youngana Dillwyn 1809
Codiolum gregarium A.Braun 1855
Urospora mirabilis Areschoug 1866

General environment
This is a Marine species.

Common names

(as Urospora penicilliformis (Roth) Areschoug)
Swedish: Fransalg (Tolstoy & Österlund 2003).

(as Hormiscia penicilliformis (Roth) Areschoug)
Japanese: Shirio-midoro (Tokida 1954).

Distribution by country

Point data for Ireland and Britain

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Detailed distribution with sources
(as Urospora isogona (Smith) Batters)
Ireland: Antrim (Adams 1907).

Europe: Britain (Newton 1931), Ireland (Adams 1907).

(as Codiolum gregarium A.Braun)
Arctic: Canada (Arctic) (Lee 1980).

Ireland: Mayo (Cotton 1912).

Europe: Britain (Batters 1902, Newton 1931), Faroe Islands (Irvine 1982), France (Coppejans 1995), Greece (Diannelidis 1953, Gerloff & Geissler 1974), Ireland (Cotton 1912).

North America: California (Miller 2012), Maine (Taylor 1957), New Hampshire (Mathieson & Hehre 1986), New York (Taylor 1957).

South America: Chile (Ramírez & Santelices 1991).

Asia: Commander Islands (Selivanova & Zhigadlova 1997), Japan (Yoshida, Nakajima & Nakata 1990, Yoshida 1998).

Antarctic and the subantarctic islands: Antarctica/Subantarctic Islands (Papenfuss 1964).

(as Urospora penicilliformis (Roth) Areschoug)
Arctic: Svalbard (Hop et al. 2012).

Ireland: Antrim (Morton 1994), Clare (Pybus 1977, Guiry 1978, De Valéra et al. 1979), Cork (Guiry 1978), Derry (Morton 1994), Donegal (Morton 2003), Down (Morton 1994), Galway (Pybus 1977, Guiry 1978), Kerry (Guiry 1978).

Europe: Baltic Sea (Nielsen et al. 1995), Belgium (Coppejans 1995), Black Sea (Gallardo et al. 1993), Britain (Newton 1931, Burrows 1991, Hardy & Guiry 2003, Brodie et al. 2007), Bulgaria (Dimitrova-Konaklieva 1981), Faroe Islands (Irvine 1982, Nielsen & Gunnarsson 2001), France (Gallardo et al. 1993, Coppejans 1995, Dizerbo & Herpe 2007, Anon. 2012), Greece (Gallardo et al. 1993), Helgoland (Bartsch & Kuhlenkamp 2000), Ireland (Pybus 1977, Guiry 1978, De Valéra et al. 1979, Burrows 1991, Morton 1994, Guiry 2012), Norway (Rueness 1997), Portugal (Araujo et al. 2009, Bárbara et al. 2012), Romania (Caraus 2002, Caraus 2012), Spain (Pérez-Cirera & Maldonado 1982, Gallardo et al. 1985, Granja, Cremades & Barbara 1992, Guillermes, Cremades & Pérez-Cirera 1994, Bárbara, Cremades & Pérez-Cirera 1995, Bárbara & Cremades 1996, Gorostiaga et al., 2004, Bárbara et al. 2005, Bárbara et al. 2006, Cires Rodriguez & Cuesta Moliner 2010), Spitsbergen (Vinogradova 1995), Sweden (Kylin 1907, Kylin 1949, Tolstoy & Österlund 2003), Veneto (Sfriso, A.).

Atlantic Islands: E. Greenland (Lund 1959, Pedersen 1976), Greenland (Pedersen 2011), Iceland (Caram & Jónsson 1972).

North America: Alaska (Scagel et al. 1989, Mondragon & Mondragon 2003, Hanic 2005, Lindstrom & Hanic 2005), British Columbia (Scagel et al. 1989, Hanic 2005, Lindstrom & Hanic 2005, Saunders & Kucera 2010), California (Silva 1979, Scagel et al. 1989, Hanic 2005, Lindstrom & Hanic 2005, Miller 2012), Channel Islands, California (Mondragon & Mondragon 2003), Connecticut (Taylor 1957), Maine (Mathieson et al. 2001, Saunders & Kucera 2010), New Hampshire (Mathieson & Hehre 1986), New Jersey (Taylor 1957), Newfoundland (Taylor 1957, Hanic 2005), Nova Scotia (Hanic 2005, Lindstrom & Hanic 2005), Oregon (Hansen 1997, Hanic 2005, Lindstrom & Hanic 2005, Lindstrom & Hanic 2005), Quebec (Taylor 1957, Saunders & Kucera 2010), Washington (Scagel et al. 1989, Hanic 2005, Lindstrom & Hanic 2005).

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

South America: Argentina (Boraso de Zaixso 2004, Boraso & Zaixso 2011), Brazil (Oliveira Filho 1977, Villaca et al. 2010 , Moura 2010), Chile (Ramírez & Santelices 1991).

Asia: Bering Sea (Mondragon & Mondragon 2003), China (Tseng 1984, Zeng 2009), Commander Islands (Selivanova & Zhigadlova 1997), Japan (Okamura 1936, Segawa 1981, Yoshida, Nakajima & Nakata 1990, Yoshida 1998), Kamchatka (Selivanova & Zhigadlova 2009, Klochkova, Korolyova & Kusidi 2009), Korea (Lee & Kang 2001), Russia (Perestenko 1980, Kozhenkova 2009).

Australia and New Zealand: New Zealand (Adams 1994, Broady et al. 2012), Tasmania (Womersley 1984).

Antarctic and the subantarctic islands: Antarctic Peninsula (Lamb & Zimmermann 1977), Antarctica/Subantarctic Islands (Papenfuss 1964, Wiencke & Clayton 2002), King George Island (Roleda et al. 2009), Macquarie Island (Ricker 1987), South Shetland Islands (Gallardo, Pérez-Ruzafa, Flores-Moya & Conde 1999, Wiencke & Clayton 2002).

(as Urospora mirabilis Areschoug)
Arctic: Canada (Arctic) (Lee 1980).

Ireland: Mayo (Cotton 1912).

Europe: Faroe Islands (Irvine 1982), France (Feldmann & Magne 1964), Ireland (Cotton 1912), Portugal (Ardré 1970), Romania (Caraus 2002, Caraus 2012), Spain (Miranda 1931, Fernández & Niell 1982).

Atlantic Islands: Tristan da Cunha (Baardseth 1941).

North America: Alaska (Lindstrom 1977), Virginia (Humm 1979).

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.

Ding, L. & Luan, R. (2013). Flora algarum marinarum sinicarum Tomus IV Chlorophyta No. I Ulotrichales Chaetophorales, Phaeophilales Ulvales Acrosiphoniales. pp. [i]-xxi, 1-173, pls I-VI. Beijing: Science Press.

Hanic, L.A. (2005). Taxonomy, gamete morphology and mating types of Urospora (Ulotrichales, Chlorophyta) in North America. Phycologia 44: 183-193.

Klochkova, N.G., Korolyova, T.N. & Kusidi, A.E. (2009). [Atlas of algae-macrophytes Kamchatka waters. Vol 1. Green algae and brown algae]. pp. 1-216. Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky: KamchatNIRO Press.

Lindstrom, S.C. & Hanic, L.A. (2005). The phylogeny of North American Urospora (Ulotrichales, Chlorophyta) based on sequence analysis of nuclear ribosomal genes, introns and spacers. Phycologia 44: 194-201.

Mondragon, J. & Mondragon, J. (2003). Seaweeds of the Pacific Coast. Common marine algae from Alaska to Baja California. pp. iv, 5-97. Monterey, California: Sea Challengers.

Pedersen, P.M. (2011). Grønlands havalger. pp. [1] 7-208. Copenhagen: Forlaget Epsilon.DK.

Scagel, R.F. (1957). An annotated list of the marine algae of British Columbia and northern Washington (including keys to genera). Bulletin, National Museum of Canada 150: [i]-vi, 1-289.

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.

Smith, G.M. (1944). Marine algae of the Monterey Peninsula. pp. i-ix, 1-622, 98 pls. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

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

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=Urospora&Species=penicilliformis

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 06 April 1996 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 20 May 2013 by M.D. Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 3174 times since it was created.

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

Kristiansen, J. (1974). The fine structure of the zoospores of Urospora penicilliformis, with special reference to the flagellar apparatus. British Phycological Journal 9: 201-213, 18 figs.
Roleda, M.Y., Campana, G.L., Wiencke, C., Hanelt, D., Quartino, M.L. & Wulff, A. (2009). Sensitivity of Antarctic Urospora penicilliformis (Ulotrichales, Chlorophyta) to ultraviolet radiation is life-stage dependent. Journal of Phycology 45(3): 600-609, 5 figs, 2 tables.
Sluiman, H.J., Roberts, K.R., Stewart, K.D. & Mattox, K.R. (1982). The flagellar apparatus of the zoospore of Urospora penicilliformis (Chlorophyta). Journal of Phycology 18: 1-12, 42 figs.

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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 20 June 2013.

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