Urospora wormskioldii (Mertens ex Hornemann) Rosenvinge

Publication details
Urospora wormskioldii (Mertens ex Hornemann) Rosenvinge 1893: 920

Original publication: Rosenvinge, L.K. (1893). Grønlands Havalger. Meddelser om Grønland 3: 763-981, 57 figs, 2 plates.

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 wormskioldii Mertens ex Hornemann

Type information
Type locality: "Ad littora Gothaab, Grönlandia" [Nuuk, Greenland] (Hornemann 1816: 6). Type: Wormskiold; C (Yoshida 1998: 79). Notes: Burrows (1991) selected Hornemann's plate (Hornemann 1816, pl. MDXLVII) as lectotype. Yoshida, however, reports material in C which would take precedence.

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Conferva wormskioldii Mertens ex Hornemann 1816

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Conferva collabens C.Agardh
Codiolum nordenskjoldianum Kjellman 1877
Codiolum cylindricum Foslie 1887
Urospora collabens (C.Agardh) Holmes & Batters 1890
Urospora wormskioldii f. vancouveriana Tilden 1900
Urospora vancouveriana (Tilden) Setchell & N.L.Gardner 1919

General environment
This is a Marine species.

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Urospora collabens (C.Agardh) Holmes & Batters)
Europe: Britain (Newton 1931).

North America: Massachusetts (Taylor 1957), Nova Scotia (Taylor 1957).

(as Urospora wormskioldii (Mertens ex Hornemann) Rosenvinge)
Arctic: Canada (Arctic) (Taylor 1957, Lee 1980).

Ireland: Antrim (Morton 1994).

Europe: Baltic Sea (Nielsen et al. 1995), Britain (Burrows 1991, Hardy & Guiry 2003, Brodie et al. 2007), E. Greenland (Pedersen 1976), Faroes (Irvine 1982, Nielsen & Gunnarsson 2001), France (Feldmann 1954, Dizerbo & Herpe 2007), Helgoland (Bartsch & Kuhlenkamp 2000), Iceland (Caram & Jónsson 1972), Ireland (Morton 1994), Norway (Rueness 1997), Spitsbergen (Vinogradova 1995), Sweden (Kylin 1949).

North America: Alaska (Lindstrom 1977, Scagel et al. 1989), British Columbia (Scagel et al. 1989, Hanic 2005, Lindstrom & Hanic 2005), California (Scagel et al. 1989, Hanic 2005, Lindstrom & Hanic 2005, Lindstrom & Hanic 2005), Maine (Taylor 1957, Mathieson et al. 2001), New Brunswick (Taylor 1957), New Hampshire (Mathieson & Hehre 1986), Nova Scotia (Lindstrom & Pistolic 2005, Hanic 2005, Lindstrom & Hanic 2005), Oregon (Hansen 1997, Hanic 2005), Quebec (Hanic 2005), Washington (Scagel et al. 1989, Lindstrom & Pistolic 2005, Hanic 2005, Lindstrom & Hanic 2005, Lindstrom & Hanic 2005).

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

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

(as Urospora vancouveriana (Tilden) Setchell & N.L.Gardner)
North America: British Columbia (Scagel et al. 1989), Washington (Scagel et al. 1989).

Asia: Commander Islands (Selivanova & Zhigadlova 1997).

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.

Burrows, E.M. (1991). Seaweeds of the British Isles. Volume 2. Chlorophyta. pp. xi + 238, 60 figs, 9 plates. London: Natural History Museum Publications.

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

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.

Lindstrom, S.C. & Pistolic, J. (2005). Detection of a Group I (IE) fungal intron in the green algal genus Urospora (Ulvophyceae). Journal of Phycology 41: 359-365.

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.

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: vi + 289.

SAG Cultures
No records have been found on the SAG site.

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 06 April 1996 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 19 June 2009 by M.D. Guiry

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