Acrochaetium humile (Rosenvinge) Børgesen
Publication details
Acrochaetium humile (Rosenvinge) Børgesen 1915: 23
Original publication: Børgesen, F. (1915). The marine algae of the Danish West Indies. Part 3. Rhodophyceae (1). Dansk Botanisk Arkiv 3: 1-80, Figs 1-86.
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Type species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Acrochaetium is Acrochaetium secundatum (Lyngbye) Nägeli.
Status of name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Basionym
Chantransia humilis Rosenvinge
Type information
Type locality: Spodsbjerg, Langeland, Denmark (Womersley 1994: 64). Holotype: on Polysiphonia nigrescens. C (Womersley 1994: 64).
Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), low, low-growing (Stearn 1973).
Homotypic Synonym(s)
Chantransia humilis Rosenvinge 1909
Chromastrum humile (Rosenvinge) Papenfuss 1945
Colaconema humile (Rosenvinge) Woelkerling 1971
Audouinella humilis (Rosenvinge) Garbary 1979
General environment
This is a marine species.
Distribution by country
Detailed distribution with sources
(as Acrochaetium humile (Rosenvinge) Børgesen)
Europe: Adriatic (Giaccone 1978), France (Anon. 2012), Romania (Caraus 2012), Spain (Miranda 1931).
Africa: Sierra Leone (John et al. 2004), Western Sahara (John et al. 2004).
South-west Asia: Turkey (Asia) (Taskin et al. 2008).
Asia: China (Zeng 2009), Japan (Yoshida 1998), Russia (Perestenko 1980, Kozhenkova 2009).
(as Chromastrum humile (Rosenvinge) Papenfuss)
Europe: Bulgaria (Dimitrova-Konaklieva 1981), Netherlands (Stegenga & Mol 1983).
(as Audouinella humilis (Rosenvinge) Garbary)
Europe: Balearic Islands (Báez et al. 2005b), Britain (Guiry 1997), France (Báez et al 2005a, Báez et al. 2005b), Greece (Athanasiadis 1987), Italy (Furnari et al. 2003, Báez et al 2005a, Báez et al. 2005b), Romania (Caraus 2002), Sardinia (Furnari et al. 2003), Spain (Ballesteros 1983, Gallardo et al. 1985, Ballesteros 1990, Báez et al 2005a, Báez et al. 2005b).
Africa: Algeria (Báez et al 2005a, Báez et al. 2005b), Morocco (Báez et al. 2005b), Tunisia (Báez et al. 2005b), Western Sahara (Price, John & Lawson 1986).
Asia: Japan (Yoshida, Nakajima & Nakata 1990), Korea (Lee & Kang 2001).
Australia and New Zealand: South Australia (Womersley 1994), Victoria (Womersley 1994 
).
Nomenclatural notes
John et al. (2004) cite the authority for this species as Rosenv.
Key references
Garbary, D.J. (1987). The Acrochaetiaceae (Rhodophyta): an annotated bibliography. Bibliotheca Phycologica 77: 1-267, 2 tables.
Klochkova, N.G., Korolyova, T.N. & Kusidi, A.E. (2009). [Atlas of marine algae of Kamchatka and surrounding areas. Vol. 2. Red seaweeds]. pp. 1-301. Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky: KamchatNIRO Press.
Womersley, H.B.S. (1994). The marine benthic flora of southern Australia - Part IIIA - Bangiophyceae and Florideophyceae (Acrochaetiales, Nemaliales, Gelidiales, Hildenbrandiales and Gigartinales sensu lato). pp. 1-508, 167 figs, 4 pls, 4 maps. Canberra: Australian Biological Resources Study.
Zeng, C. (Tseng, C.K.), Luan, R., Chen, Z. & Li, W. (2005). Flora algarum marinarum sinicarum Tomus II Rhodophyta No. II Acrochaetiales Nemaliales Bonnemaisoniales. pp. [i-vii], i-xxiii, 1-180 , pls I-VIII. Beijing: Science Press.
SAG Cultures
SAG Cultures may be viewed at http://sagdb.uni-goettingen.de/showstrains.php?genus=Acrochaetium&species=humile
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=Acrochaetium&Species=humile
Created: 05 January 1998 by M.D. Guiry
Verified by: 12 January 2012 by M.D. Guiry
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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2013.
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