Caulerpa cylindracea Sonder

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Chlorophyta
Class Ulvophyceae
Order Bryopsidales
Family Caulerpaceae
Genus Caulerpa

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From: Harvey, W.H. (1858-1863). Phycologia australica. Vols 1-5. Plates I-CCC. London: Lovell Reeve & Co. Available on CD from http://www.phycology.ugent.be/harvey.

Publication details
Caulerpa cylindracea Sonder 1845: 50

Original publication: Sonder, G. (1845). Nova algarum genera et species, quas in itinere ad oras occidentales Novae Hollandiae, collegit L. Priess, Ph. Dr. Botanische Zeitung 3: 49-57.
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Type species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Caulerpa is Caulerpa prolifera (Forsskål) J.V.Lamouroux.

Status of name
This name is currently regarded as a taxonomic synonym of Caulerpa racemosa var. cylindracea (Sonder) Verlaque, Huisman & Boudouresque

Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), cylindrical.

Synonym(s)
No synonyms are currently included in AlgaeBase.

General environment
This is a marine species.

Type information
Type locality: Western Australia (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996: 830). Type: Preiss; MEL 516014 (Womersley 1984: 270).

Source of synonymy
Verlaque, M., Durand, C., Huisman, J.M., Boudouresque, C-F., & Le Parco, Y. (2003). On the identity and origin of the Mediterranean invasive Caulerpa racemosa (Caulerpales, Chlorophyta). European Journal of Phycology 38: 325-339.

Key references
Silva, P.C., Basson, P.W. & Moe, R.L. (1996). Catalogue of the benthic marine algae of the Indian Ocean. University of California Publications in Botany 79: 1-1259.

Womersley, H.B.S. (1984). The marine benthic flora of southern Australia. Part I. pp. 329, 102 figs, 16 plates. Adelaide: Government Printer, South Australia.

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

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=Caulerpa&Species=cylindracea

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 26 November 1999 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 28 June 2012 by Wendy Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 873 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.)

Bernardeau Esteller, J. & Martínez Garrido, J. (2010). Caulerpa racemosa var. cylindracea en el Mediterraneo: Estudios en la Región de Murcia. ALGAS. Boletín de Sociedad Española de Ficología 43: 19-26, 6 Fig.
Capiomont, A., Breugnot, E., den Haan, M. & Meinesz, A. (2005). Phenology of a deep-water population of Caulerpa racemosa var. cylindracea in the northwestern Mediterranean Sea. Botanica Marina 48: 80-83.
Capiomont, A., Breunot, E., den Hanne, M. & Meinesz, A. (2005). Phenology of a deepwater population of Caulerpa racemosa var. cylindracea in the northwestern Mediterranean See. Botanica Marina 48: 80-83.
Ceccherelli, G. & Piazzi, L. (2005). Exploring the success of manual eradication of Caulerpa racemosa var. cylindracea (Caulerpales, Chlorophyta): the effect of habitat. Cryptogamie 26: 319-328.
Flagella, M.M., Lorenti, M. & Buia, M.C. (2008). Temperature response in a shallow-water Mediterranean population of Caulerpa racemosa var. cylindracea (Caulerpales, Chlorophyta), and a possible strategy of season anticipation. Botanica Marina 51(4): 278-277.
Klein, J. (2007). Impact de Caulerpa racemosa var. cylindracea (Caulerpales, Chlorophyta) sur les communautés macrophytiques en Méditerranée nord-occidentale. : Thèse de Doctorat, Université Aix-Marseille II, France. 315 pp.
Moreira-Reyes, A. & Gil-Rodríguez, M.C. (2008). Variaciones espaciales y temporales de Caulerpa racemosa var. cylindracea (Chlorophycota) en Los Cristianos e Igueste de San Andrés, Tenerife, Islas Canarias. Vieraea 36: 91-102.
Piazzi, L. & Ceccherelli, G. (2006). Persistence of biological invasion effects: Recovery of macroalgal assemblages after removal of Caulerpa racemosa var. cylindracea. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 68: 455-461.
Piazzi, L., Meinesz, A., Verlaque, M., Açali, B., Antolic, B., Argyrou, M., Baltana, D., Ballesteros, E., Calvo, S., Cinelli, F., Cirik, S., Cossu, A., d'Archino, R., Djellouli, A.S., Javel, F., Lanfranco, E., Mifsud, C., Pala, D., Panayotidis, P., Peirano, A., Pergent, G., Petrocelli, A., Ruitton, S., Zuljevic, A. & Ceccherelli, G. (2005). Invasion of Caulerpa racemosa var. cylindracea (Caulerpales, Chlorophyta) in the Mediterranean Sea: an assessment of the spread. Cryptogamie, Algologie 26: 189-202.
Sauvage, T., Payri, C., Draisma, S.G.A., Prud'homme van Reine, W.F., Verbruggen, H., Belton, G.S., Gurgel, F.D., Gabriel, D., Sherwood, A.R. & Fredericq, S. (2013). Molecular diversity of the Caulerpa racemosa-Caulerpa peltata complex (Caulerpaceae, Bryopsidales) in New Caledonia, with new Australasian records for C. racemosa var. cylindracea. Phycologia 52(1): 6-13.
Verlaque, M., Afonso-Carillo, J., Gil-Rodríguez, M.C., Durand, C., Boudouresque, C.F. & Le Parco, Y. 2004 (2004). Blitzkrieg in a marine invasion: Caulerpa racemosa var. cylindracea (Bryopsidales, Chlorophyta) reaches the Canary Islands (north-east Atlantic). Biological Invasions 6: 269-281.
Zuljevic, A., Antolic, B., Nikolic, V., Despalatovic, M. & Cvitkovic, I. (2012). Absence of successful sexual reproduction of Caulerpa racemosa var. cylindracea in the Adriatic Sea. Phycologia 51(3): 283-286.

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Wendy 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:109721