Codium tomentosum Stackhouse

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Chlorophyta
Class Ulvophyceae
Order Bryopsidales
Family Codiaceae
Genus Codium

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upper subtidal, Ría de Camariñas, Galicia, Spain 2012. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

upper subtidal, Islas Cíes, Galicia, Spain 2012. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

Collected near Roscoff (F), December 1984. 29 Dec 2011. Elmar Wosnitza. © Christine Wosnitza.

Codium tomentosum, Spanish Point, Co. Clare, Ireland. 28 Aug 2010. M.D. Guiry. © Michael Guiry (mike.guiry@nuigalway.ie).

Pantín, A Coruña, Galicia, Spain, 2007. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

microscope, Spain, Galicia, Coruña, Pantíns beach, 2007. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

Ría de Vigo, Galicia, Spain, 2007. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

San Román, Lugo, Galicia, Spain, 2008. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

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Gononema pectinatum (Skottsberg) Kuckuck & Skottsberg

Codium tomentosum Stackhouse with Corallina elongata, Peinzás, Lugo, Galicia, Spain, 2008

Publication details
Codium tomentosum Stackhouse 1797: xxiv

Original publication: Stackhouse, J. (1797). Nereis britannica; continens species omnes fucorum in insulis britannicis crescentium: descriptione latine et anglico, necnon iconibus ad vivum depictis... Fasc. 2. pp. ix-xxiv, 31-70, pls IX-XIII. Bathoniae [Bath] & Londini [London]: S. Hazard; J. White.
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Type species
This is the type species (holotype) of the genus Codium.

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

Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), tomentose, i.e., thickly and evenly covered with short more or less adpressed curled or curved matted hairs (Stearn 1973).

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Fucus tomentosus var. marginifer Turner 1811
Codium dichotomum var. ß marginiferum S.F.Gray 1821

General environment
This is a marine species.

Common names

(as Codium tomentosum Stackhouse)
Indonesian: Soesoe lopek (Chapman & Chapman 1980).

Portuguese: Chorão, Chorão do mar, Pingarelhos (Oliveira, 1990).

Distribution by country

Point data for Ireland and Britain

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Type information
Type locality: England (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996: 864). Neotype: LINN (Silva 1955: 571). Notes: The neotype was selected from specimens in Stackhouses herbarium and is likely to be from Cornwall.

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Codium tomentosum Stackhouse)
Ireland: Antrim (Adams 1904, Silva 1955, Parkes 1975, Guiry 1978, Burrows 1991, Morton 1994), Clare (Anonymous 1894, Silva 1955, Parkes 1975, Guiry 1978, De Valéra et al. 1979, Burrows 1991), Cork (Anonymous 1894, Renouf 1931, Silva 1955, Parkes 1975, Guiry 1978, Burrows 1991), Derry (Morton 1994), Donegal (Silva 1955, Parkes 1975, Guiry 1978, Morton 2003), Dublin (Parkes 1975, Guiry 1978), Galway (Silva 1955, Parkes 1975, Guiry 1978, Burrows 1991), Kerry (Parkes 1975, Guiry 1978), Louth (Guiry 1978), Mayo (Cotton 1912, Silva 1955, Parkes 1975, Guiry 1978, Burrows 1991), Sligo (Parkes 1975, Guiry 1978, Burrows 1991), Wexford (Cotton 1913, Parkes & Scannell 1969, Norton 1970, Parkes 1975, Guiry 1978, Burrows 1991).

Europe: Adriatic (Giaccone 1978, Battelli & Vukovic 1995), Balearic Islands (Rodríguez y Femenías 1889, Bellón 1921, Navarro & Bellón 1945), Britain (Newton 1931, Silva 1955, Burrows 1991, Hardy & Guiry 2003, Brodie et al. 2007), Channel Islands (Trowbridge, Farnham & White 2004, Trowbridge & Farnham 2004), Corsica (Boudouresque & Perret 1977), France (Coppejans 1995, Dizerbo & Herpe 2007, Loiseaux-de Goër & Noailles 2008, Anon. 2012), Ireland (Adams 1907, Cotton 1912, Cotton 1913, Silva 1955, Parkes 1975, Guiry 1978, De Valéra et al. 1979, Burrows 1991, Morton 1994, Guiry 2012), Netherlands (Stegenga & Mol 1983), Portugal (Ardré 1970, Araujo, R., I. Bárbara, I. Sousa-Pinto & V. Quintino (2005), Araujo et al. 2009, Lopes et al. 2011, Araújo, Bárbara & Sousa-Pinto in press), Spain (Lázaro Ibiza 1889, Sauvageau 1897, Bellón 1921, Hamel 1928, Miranda 1931, Bellón 1940, Bellón 1942, Ardré 1957, Fischer-Piette, C. & Seoane Camba, J. (1962), Seoane-Camba 1965, Pérez-Cirera & Maldonado 1982, Conde & Seoane 1982, Gallardo & Pérez-Cirera 1982, Fernández & Niell 1982, Anadón 1983, Gallardo et al. 1985, Anadón & Fernández 1986, Soto & Conde 1989, Pérez-Cirera 1989, Perez-Cirera, Cremades, Bárbara & Lopez 1991, Granja, Cremades & Barbara 1992, Gallardo et al. 1993, Flores-Moya et al. 1995, Bárbara, Cremades & Pérez-Cirera 1995, Bárbara & Cremades 1996, Veiga, Cremades & Bárbara 1998, Peña & Bárbara 2002, Valenzuela Miranda 2002, Sánchez, Fernández & Rico 2003, Gorostiaga et al., 2004, Bárbara et al. 2005, Peña & Bárbara 2006, Martínez-Gil et al. 2007, Peña & Bárbara 2008, Cires Rodriguez & Cuesta Moliner 2010, Hernández et al. 2010), Turkey (Europe) (Güven & Öztig 1971, Güner, Aysel, Sukatar & Öztürk 1985, Cirik, Zeybeck, Aysel & Cirik 1990, Taskin et al. 2008 ).

Atlantic Islands: Azores (Tittley & Neto 1994), Canary Islands (Børgesen 1926, Gil-Rodríguez & Afonso-Carrillo 1980, Viera-Rodriguez et al. 1987, Gil-Rodriguez, Afonso-Carrillo & Wildpret de la Torre 1987, Haroun et al. 2002, Gil-Rodríguez et al. 2003, John et al. 2004, Anon 2011), Cape Verde Islands (John et al. 2004, Prud'homme van Reine, Haroun & Kostermans 2005), Madeira (Levring 1974, Neto, Cravo & Haroun 2001, John et al. 2004), Salvage Islands (Parente et al. 2000, John et al. 2004).

North America: Florida (Taylor 1928), Gulf of California (Setchell & Gardner 1924).

South America: Brazil (Taylor 1930), Chile (Ramírez & Santelices 1991), Peru (Ramírez & Santelices 1991).

Africa: Angola (John et al. 2004), Congo (John et al. 2004), Egypt (Papenfuss 1968 , Aleem 1993), Ethiopia (Papenfuss 1968 ), Gabon (John et al. 2004), Kenya (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Bolton, Oyieke & Gwanda 2007), Madagascar (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Mauritania (John et al. 2004), Mauritius (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Morocco (Gallardo et al. 1993, Benhissoune, Boudouresque & Verlaque 2001, Benhissoune, Boudouresque & Verlaque 2001), São Tomé & Príncipe (John et al. 2004), Senegal (John et al. 2004), Somalia (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), South Africa (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Sudan (Papenfuss 1968 ), Tanzania (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Tunisia (Ben Maiz, Boudouresque & Quahchi 1987).

Indian Ocean Islands: Amirante Islands (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Andaman Islands (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Laccadive Islands (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Réunion (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Rodrigues Island (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Seychelles (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996).

South-west Asia: India (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Israel (Einav 2007), Jordan (Papenfuss 1968 ), Sri Lanka (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Turkey (Asia) (Taskin et al. 2008 ), Yemen (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996).

Asia: Japan (Okamura 1936), Korea (Lee & Kang 2001, Bae 2010), Taiwan (Anon. 2012).

South-east Asia: Indonesia (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Singapore (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Pham et al. 2011), Vietnam (Pham-Hoàng 1969, Tien 2007).

Australia and New Zealand: Queensland (Lewis 1987 ).

Pacific Islands: Samoan Archipelago (Skelton & South 1999).

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

Taxonomic notes
According to Silva et al. (1996) the name Codium dichotomum has been misapplied to this species by Børgesen (1949a: 22-23) and Brown & Jarman (1978: 1256).

Key references
Kim, G.H. & Klochkova, T.A. (2010). Bryopsidales. In: Algal flora of Korea. Volume 1, Number 1. Chlorophyta: Ulvophyceae: Ulotrichales, Ulvales, Cladophorales, Bryopsidales. Marine green algae. (Bae, E.H., Kim, H.-S., Kwon, C.-J., Hwang, I.-K., Kiim, G.H. & Klochkova, T.A. Eds), pp. 157-209. Incheon: National Institute of Biological Resources.

Loiseaux-de Goër, S. & Noailles, M.-C. (2008). Algues de Roscoff. pp. [1]-215, col. figs. Roscoff: Editions de la Station Biologique de Roscoff.

Newton, L.M. (1953). Marine algae. In: The John Murray Expedition 1933-34 scientific reports. ( Eds) Vol.9, pp. 395-420. London:

Zemke-White, W.L. & Ohno, M. (1999). World seaweed utilisation: an end-of-century summary. Journal of Applied Phycology 11: 369-376.

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

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=Codium&Species=tomentosum

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 06 April 1996 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 06 February 2012 by M.D. Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 8633 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.)

Tobler, G. (1911). Zur organisation des thallus von Codium tomentosum. Flora 103: 78-87.
Trowbridge, C.D. (2001). Coexistence of introduced and native congeneric algae: Codium fragile and C. tomentosum on Irish rocky intertidal shores. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 81: 931-937.
Trowbridge, C.D., Farnham, W.F. & White, L.F. (2004). Thriving populations of the native macroalga Codium tomentosum on Guernsey rocky shores. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 84: 873-877.
Went, F.A.F.C. (1889). Les modes de reproduction du Codium tomentosum. Nedserl. Kruidk. Archf. Ser. 2, 5: 440-444.
Williams, M.M. (1925). Contributions to the cytology and phylogeny of the siphonaceous algae. I. The cytology of the gametangia of Codium tomentosum (Stack.). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 50: 98-111.

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