Laurencia obtusa var. gracilis (C.Agardh) Zanardini

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Rhodophyta
Subphylum Eurhodophytina
Class Florideophyceae
Subclass Rhodymeniophycidae
Order Ceramiales
Family Rhodomelaceae
Tribe Laurencieae
Genus Laurencia

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Publication details
Laurencia obtusa var. gracilis (C.Agardh) Zanardini 1847: 197

Original publication: Zanardini, G. (1847). Notizie intorno alle cellulari marine delle lagune e de'litorali di Venezia (I). Atti del Reale Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti 6: 185-262, 1 plate.
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Type species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Laurencia is Laurencia obtusa (Hudson) J.V.Lamouroux.

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

Basionym
Chondria obtusa var. gracilis C.Agardh

Type information
Syntype localities: Mediterranean Sea; Cádiz, Spain; Brazil; West Indies; Ratak Chain, Marshall Islands (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996: 516).

Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), obtuse, blunt (Stearn 1973).

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Chondria obtusa var. gracilis C.Agardh 1822

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Laurencia obtusa var. crucifera Kützing
Fucus gelatinosus Desfontaines 1799
Laurencia gelatinosa J.V.Lamouroux 1813
Chondria obtusa var. gracilis Martens 1824
Laurencia obtusa var. gelatinosa (Lamouroux) J.Agardh 1852

General environment
This is a marine species.

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Laurencia obtusa var. crucifera Kützing)
Europe: Adriatic (Giaccone 1978), Britain (Newton 1931), Greece (Gerloff & Geissler 1974, Athanasiadis 1987), Italy (Giaccone 1969).

(as Laurencia gelatinosa J.V.Lamouroux)
Europe: Balearic Islands (Colmeiro, M. 1868, Barceló 1879-1881).

(as Laurencia obtusa var. gracilis (C.Agardh) Zanardini)
Europe: Balearic Islands (Ardissone 1883, Piccone 1889), Greece (Gerloff & Geissler 1974), Romania (Caraus 2002).

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

South America: Galápagos Islands (Taylor 1945, Ruiz & Ziemmeck 2011).

Africa: South Africa (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Tanzania (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996).

South-west Asia: India (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Sahoo et al. 2001).

Pacific Islands: Fiji (N'Yeurt, South & Keats 1996, South & Skelton 2003).

(as Laurencia obtusa var. gelatinosa (Lamouroux) J.Agardh)
Europe: Greece (Gerloff & Geissler 1974).

South America: Brazil (Oliveira Filho 1977).

Taxonomic notes
Taxon inquirendum (Furnari, pers. comm.), perhaps the same as Laurencia microcladia Kützing.

Nomenclatural notes
The right citation for this taxon is L. obtusa var. gracilis (C.Agardh) Zanardini 1847: 20 and not L. obtusa var. gracilis (Martens) Zanardini 1841: 197; see note in Furnari et al. (1999: 44). Taylor (1945) cites Harvey as the authority for this variety.

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

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=Laurencia&Species=obtusa

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 13 January 1998 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 17 August 2012 by Michael Guiry

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Citing AlgaeBase
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Michael 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 19 May 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: No taxonomy record found for this level.