Tilopteris mertensii (Turner) Kützing

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Chromista
Phylum Ochrophyta
Class Phaeophyceae
Order Tilopteridales
Family Tilopteridaceae
Genus Tilopteris

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Publication details
Tilopteris mertensii (Turner) Kützing 1849: 462

Original publication: Kützing, F.T. (1849). Species algarum. pp. [i]-vi, [1]-922. Lipsiae [Leipzig]: F.A. Brockhaus.
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Type species
This is the type species (holotype) of the genus Tilopteris.

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

Basionym
Conferva mertensii Turner

Type information
Type locality: Yarmouth [Norfolk, England] (Silva 1996-to date). Type: Mr. Wigg; BM

Origin of species name
(Latinised), named for Dr Mertens.

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Conferva mertensii Turner 1802
Ectocarpus mertensi (Turner) C.Agardh 1828
Trichopteris mertensii (Turner) Kützing 1847

General environment
This is a marine species.

Common names

(as Tilopteris mertensii (Turner) Kützing)
English: Winged Thread Weed (Bunker et al. 2010).

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Tilopteris mertensii (Turner) Kützing)
Ireland: Antrim (Adams 1907, Guiry 1978, Morton 1994), Clare (Guiry 1978, De Valéra et al. 1979), Cork (Guiry 1978), Donegal (Guiry 1978, Morton 2003), Down (Guiry 1978, Morton 1994), Dublin (Guiry 1978), Galway (Cotton 1912, Guiry 1978), Mayo (Guiry 1978).

Europe: Baltic Sea (Nielsen et al. 1995), Britain (Newton 1931, Hardy & Guiry 2003), Faroe Islands (Nielsen & Gunnarsson 2001), France (Feldmann 1954, Dizerbo & Herpe 2007, Anon. 2012), Germany (Sasaki et al. 2001), Helgoland (Bartsch & Kuhlenkamp 2000, Silberfeld et al. 2011), Ireland (Adams 1907, Cotton 1912, Guiry 1978, De Valéra et al. 1979, Morton 1994, Guiry 2012), Norway (Rueness 1997), Scandinavia (Athanasiadis 1996), Sweden (Kylin 1907, Kylin 1947).

North America: Massachusetts (Taylor 1957).

Key references
De Toni, G.B. (1895). Sylloge algarum omnium hucusque cognitarum. Vol. III. Fucoideae. Vol. 3 pp. [i]-xvi, [1]-638. Patavii [Padua]: Sumptibus auctoris.

Kawai, H. & Sasaki, H. (2004). Morphology, life history and molecular phylogeny of Stschapovia flagellaris (Tilopteridales, Phaeophyceae), and the erction of the Stschapoviaceae fam. nov. Journal of Phycology 40(6): 1156-1169, 9 figs, 3 tables.

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

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=Tilopteris&Species=mertensii

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 09 April 1996 by M.D. Guiry

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

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 1003 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.)

Katsaros, C. & Salla, C. (1997). Ultrastructural changes during development, release, and germination of monospores of Tilopteris mertensii (Tilopteridales, Phaeophyta). Phycologia 36: 60-67, 24 figs.
Kuhlenkamp, R. & Müller, D.G. (1985). Culture studies on the life history of Haplospora globosa and Tilopteris mertensii (Tilopteridales, Phaeophyceae). British Phycological Journal 20: 301-312.
Kuhlenkamp, R. (1989). Photomorphogenesis in early development of Tilopteris mertensii (Tilopteridales: Phaeophyceae). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 69: 555-562.
South, G.R. & Hill, R.D. (1971). Studies on marine algae of Newfoundland. II. On the occurrence of Tilopteris mertensii. Canadian Journal of Botany 49(2): 211-213.
South, G.R. (1972). On the life history of Tilopteris mertensii (Turn. in Sm.) Kütz.. Proceedings of the International Seaweed Symposium 7: 83-89.

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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 18 May 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:77193