Blastophysa rhizopus Reinke

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Chlorophyta
Class Ulvophyceae
Order Ulvophyceae incertae sedis
Family Ulvophyceae familia incertae sedis
Genus Blastophysa

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Hawaii; vesicular cells and interconnecting flaments; branched filaments are the host cells; scale 40 µm. 15 Aug 2011. J.M. Huisman. © J.M. Huisman. From: Huisman JM, Abbott IA, Smith CM (2007). Hawaiian reef plants. University of Hawaii Sea Grant College Program, Honolulu. 264 p. Available from Seagrant, University of Hawai'i.

Hawaii; green dots on Liagora valida; scale 500 µm. 15 Aug 2011. J.M. Huisman. © J.M. Huisman. From: Huisman JM, Abbott IA, Smith CM (2007). Hawaiian reef plants. University of Hawaii Sea Grant College Program, Honolulu. 264 p. Available from Seagrant, University of Hawai'i.

Florida, USA; vegetative cell. Eric Henry. © Eric Henry (eric@reedmariculture.com).

Blastophysa rhizopus Reinke Hawaii; vesicular cells and interconnecting flaments; branched filaments are the host cells; scale 40 µm

Publication details
Blastophysa rhizopus Reinke 1889: 87, pl. 23

Original publication: Reinke, J. (1889). Algenflora der westlichen Ostsee deutschen Antheils. Eine systematisch-pflanzengeographische Studie. Bericht der Kommission zur Wissenschaftlichen Untersuchung der deutschen Meere in Kiel 6: [i-] iii-xi, 1-101, 8 figs, map.

Type species
This is the type species (holotype) of the genus Blastophysa.

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

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Blastophysa arrhiza Wille 1891
Blastophysa polymorpha Kjellmann 1897

General environment
This is a marine species.

Type information
Lectotype locality: Kieler Förde, Germany Lectotype: 1889, pl. 23 (epitype) Reinke; (Burrows 1991: 201). Notes: Original illustration in the absence of material.

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Blastophysa rhizopus Reinke)
Ireland: Antrim (Hanna 1899, Adams 1907, Guiry 1978, Burrows 1991, Morton 1994), Dublin (Guiry 1978), Mayo (Cotton 1912, Guiry 1978).

Europe: Adriatic (Giaccone 1978, Ercegovic 1980, Gallardo et al. 1993), Balearic Islands (Gallardo et al. 1993), Baltic Sea (Nielsen et al. 1995), Britain (Newton 1931, Burrows 1991, Hardy & Guiry 2003, Brodie et al. 2007), Corsica (Coppejans 1979, Gallardo et al. 1993), France (Feldmann 1937, Augier, Boudouresque & Laborel 1971, Gallardo et al. 1993, Verlaque 2001, Dizerbo & Herpe 2007, Anon. 2012), Greece (Athanasiadis 1987, Gallardo et al. 1993), Helgoland (Bartsch & Kuhlenkamp 2000), Ireland (Adams 1907, Guiry 1978, Burrows 1991, Morton 1994, Guiry 2012), Italy (Gallardo et al. 1993, Gallardo et al. 1993, Furnari, Cormaci & Serio 1999, Rindi, Sartoni & Cinelli 2002), Norway (Rueness 1997), Spain (Ballesteros 1983, Gallardo et al. 1985, Ballesteros 1989, Gallardo et al. 1993), Sweden (Kylin 1949).

Atlantic Islands: Bermuda (Taylor 1960), Canary Islands (Haroun et al. 2002, Gil-Rodríguez et al. 2003, John et al. 2004, Anon 2011), Madeira (Levring 1974, Neto, Cravo & Haroun 2001, John et al. 2004).

North America: Massachusetts (Taylor 1957), North Carolina (Schneider & Searles 1991).

Caribbean Islands: Cuba (Suárez 2005), Lesser Antilles (Taylor 1960), Virgin Islands (Taylor 1960).

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

South America: Brazil (Oliveira Filho 1977, Villaca et al. 2010 , Moura 2010).

Asia: Japan (Yoshida, Nakajima & Nakata 1990, Yoshida 1998), Russia (Perestenko 1980).

Australia and New Zealand: Lord Howe Island (Kraft 2000, Kraft 2007), Queensland (Lewis 1987, Phillips 1997, Phillips 2002, Kraft 2007, Bostock & Holland 2010), Western Australia (Huisman et al. 2009).

Pacific Islands: Easter Island (Ramírez & Müller 1991), Hawaiian Islands (Abbott & Huisman, 2004, Huisman, Abbott & Smith 2007).

(as Blastophysa polymorpha Kjellmann)
Europe: Black Sea (Gallardo et al. 1993), Bulgaria (Dimitrova-Konaklieva 1981), Corsica (Verlaque 1984, Gallardo et al. 1993), France (Gallardo et al. 1993), Greece (Gallardo et al. 1993), Italy (Gallardo et al. 1993), Sweden (Kylin 1907).

Africa: Algeria (Gallardo et al. 1993).

Key references
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.

Funk, G. (1955). Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Meeresalgen von Neapel: Zugleich mikrophotographischer Atlas. Pubblicazioni della Stazione Zoologica di Napoli 25(Suppl.): i-x , 1- 178, 36 figs.

Huisman, J.M., Abbott, I.A., Smith, C.M. (2007). Hawaiian reef plants. pp. [1]-264, numerous colour photographs. Honolulu: A publication of the University of Hawai'i Sea Grant College Program.

Kraft, G.T. (2007). Algae of Australia. Marine benthic algae of Lord Howe Island and the southern Great Barrier Reef, 1. Green algae. pp. [i-iv], v-vi, 1-347, 110 text-figs; 11 pls. Canberra & Melbourne: Australian Biological Resources Study & CSIRO Publishing.

UTEX Cultures
UTEX Culture LB 1029 Blastophysa rhizopus
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SAG Cultures
SAG Cultures may be viewed at http://sagdb.uni-goettingen.de/showstrains.php?genus=Blastophysa&species=rhizopus

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=Blastophysa&Species=rhizopus

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

KU-MACC Cultures
Strain Number: KU-295, Blastophysa rhizopus
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Created: 06 April 1996 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 11 August 2011 by M.D. Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 2121 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.)

Chappell, D.F., Okelly, C.J. & Floyd, G.L. (1991). Flagellar apparatus of the biflagellate zoospores of the enigmatic marine green alga Blastophysa rhizopus. Journal of Phycology 27: 423-428.
Iima, M. & Tatewaki, M. (1987). On the life history and host-specificity of Blastophysa rhizopus (Codiales, Chaetosiphonaceae), an endophytic green alga from Muroran in laboratory cultures. Japanese Journal of Phycology 35: 241-250.
Sears, J.R. (1967). Mitotic waves in the green alga Blastophysa rhizopus as related to coenocytic form. Journal of Phycology 3: 136-139.
Sears, J.R. (1968). Developmental morphology and systematics of the siphonaceous green alga Blastophysa rhizopus. Journal of Phycology 3: 3.

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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 26 May 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:77276