Blidingia minima (Nägeli ex Kützing) Kylin
Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Subkingdom Viridaeplantae
Phylum Chlorophycophyta
Class Ulvophyceae
Order Ulvales
Family Kornmanniaceae
Genus Blidingia
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Portual, Áncora, 2002, microscope. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara.
Portual, Insua de Caminha, 2002, microscope. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara.
Spiddal, Co. Galway, Ireland; rocks at MHWN. 18 Apr 2002. Michael Guiry. © Michael Guiry.
Claddagh, Galway, Ireland; on uppershore rocks with Verrucaria. 05 Jun 2005. Michael Guiry. © Michael Guiry.
Spain, North of Galicia, 2009. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara.
Blidingia minima (Nägeli ex Kützing) Kylin Claddagh, Galway, Ireland; on uppershore rocks with Verrucaria
Publication details
Blidingia minima (Nägeli ex Kützing) Kylin 1947: 181
Original publication: Kylin, H. (1947). Über die Fortpflanzungsverhältnisse in der Ordnung Ulvales. Kungl. Fysiografiska Sällskapets i Lund Förhandlingar 17: 174-182.
Type species
This is the type species (holotype) of the genus Blidingia.
Status of name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Basionym
Enteromorpha minima Nägeli ex Kützing
Type information
Type locality: Helgoland, Germany (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996: 728). Holotype: L 938.69.168 (Womersley 1984: 150).
Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), very little, very least (Stearn 1973).
Homotypic Synonym(s)
Enteromorpha minima Nägeli ex Kützing 1849
Enteromorpha compressa var. minima (Nägeli ex Hauck) Hamel 1931
Enteromorpha nana var. minima (Nägeli ex Hauck) Sjøstedt 1939
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Blidingia minima var. capillaris
Blidingia minima var. elongata
Blidingia minima var. ramosa
Enteromorpha micrococca var. tortuosa J.Agardh
Enteromorpha minima var. capillaris Schiffner
Enteromorpha minima f. elongata Schiffner
Enteromorpha minima var. elongata Schiffner
Ulva intestinalis var. nana Sommerfelt 1826
Enteromorpha coarctata Kjellman 1897
Enteromorpha nana (Sommerfelt) Bliding 1939
Enteromorpha nana (Sommerfelt) Sjöstedt 1939
Blidingia nana (Sommerfelt) Bliding 1963
General environment
This is a Marine species.
Detailed distribution with sources
(as Blidingia minima var. capillaris )
Europe: Adriatic (Giaccone 1978), Italy (Furnari, Cormaci & Serio 1999).
(as Blidingia minima var. elongata )
Europe: Adriatic (Giaccone 1978), Italy (Furnari, Cormaci & Serio 1999).
(as Blidingia minima var. ramosa )
Europe: Adriatic (Giaccone 1978), Italy (Furnari, Cormaci & Serio 1999).
(as Enteromorpha micrococca var. tortuosa J.Agardh)
Europe: Britain (Newton 1931).
(as Enteromorpha minima var. capillaris Schiffner)
Europe: Italy (Furnari, Cormaci & Serio 1999).
(as Enteromorpha minima f. elongata Schiffner)
Europe: Italy (Furnari, Cormaci & Serio 1999).
(as Enteromorpha minima var. elongata Schiffner)
Europe: Italy (Furnari, Cormaci & Serio 1999).
(as Enteromorpha minima Nägeli ex Kützing)
Ireland: Mayo (Cotton 1912).
Europe: Britain (Newton 1931), Ireland (Cotton 1912), Spain (Miranda 1931), Sweden (Kylin 1907).
Atlantic Islands: Bermuda (Taylor 1957, Taylor 1960).
North America: Connecticut (Taylor 1957), Massachusetts (Taylor 1957), New Brunswick (Taylor 1957), Newfoundland (Taylor 1957), North Carolina (Taylor 1960), Virginia (Humm 1979).
South America: Brazil (Taylor 1930 
).
Africa: Morocco (Dangeard 1949).
(as Enteromorpha compressa var. minima (Nägeli ex Hauck) Hamel)
Europe: France (Coppejans 1972).
(as Blidingia minima (Nägeli ex Kützing) Kylin)
Arctic: Canada (Arctic) (Lee 1980).
Ireland: Antrim (Morton 1994), Clare (Pybus 1977, Guiry 1978), Cork (Guiry 1978), Derry (Morton 1994), Down (Morton 1994), Galway (Guiry 1978), Kerry (Guiry 1978), Limerick (Guiry 1978), Mayo (Guiry 1978), Wexford (Norton 1970, Guiry 1978).
Europe: Adriatic (Giaccone 1978, Gallardo et al. 1993), Baltic Sea (Nielsen et al. 1995), Belgium (Coppejans 1995), Black Sea (Gallardo et al. 1993), Britain (Burrows 1991, Hardy & Guiry 2003, Brodie et al. 2007), Bulgaria (Dimitrova-Konaklieva 1981), Denmark (Larsen & Sand-Jensen 2006), Faroes (Irvine 1982, Nielsen & Gunnarsson 2001), France (Feldmann 1954, Gallardo et al. 1993, Coppejans 1995, Dizerbo & Herpe 2007), Helgoland (Bartsch & Kuhlenkamp 2000), Iceland (Caram & Jónsson 1972), Ireland (Pybus 1977, Guiry 1978, Burrows 1991, Morton 1994), Isla de Alborán (Conde & Flores Moya 2000), Italy (Giaccone 1969, Gallardo et al. 1993, Furnari, Cormaci & Serio 1999), Netherlands (Stegenga & Mol 1983, Burrows 1991), Norway (Rueness 1997), Portugal (Ardré 1970, Araujo et al. 2009, Araújo, Bárbara & Sousa-Pinto in press), Spain (González Guerrero 1957, Seoane-Camba 1965, Ballesteros & Romero 1982, Pérez-Cirera & Maldonado 1982, Fernández & Niell 1982, Ballesteros 1983, Anadón 1983, Gallardo et al. 1985, Fernández 1985, Granja, Cremades & Barbara 1992, Gallardo et al. 1993, Flores-Moya et al. 1994, Flores-Moya et al. 1995, Bárbara & Cremades 1996, Veiga, Cremades & Bárbara 1998, Calvo, Bárbara & Cremades 1999, Calvo & Bárbara 2002, Peña & Bárbara 2002, Gorostiaga et al., 2004, Bárbara et al. 2005, Diaz-Tapia & Bárbara 2005, Invernón et al. 2009), Spitsbergen (Vinogradova 1995), Sweden (Kylin 1949, Tolstoy & Österlund 2003), Turkey (Europe) (Gallardo et al. 1993, Taskin et al. 2008 ).
Atlantic Islands: Azores (Tittley & Neto 1994), Canary Islands (Gil-Rodríguez & Afonso-Carrillo 1980, Guadalupe et al. 1995, Haroun et al. 2002, Gil-Rodríguez et al. 2003, John et al. 2004), Gough Island (Chamberlain 1965), Madeira (Levring 1974, Neto, Cravo & Haroun 2001, John et al. 2004).
North America: Alaska (Lindstrom 1977, Scagel et al. 1989), British Columbia (Scagel et al. 1989), California (Abbott & Hollenberg 1976, Silva 1979), Connecticut (Van Patten 2009), Florida (Littler, Littler & Hanisak 2008), Georgia (Schneider & Searles 1991), Maine (Mathieson et al. 2001), New Hampshire (Mathieson & Hehre 1986), North Carolina (Schneider & Searles 1991), Oregon (Hansen 1997), South Carolina (Schneider & Searles 1991), Washington (Scagel et al. 1989).
Central America: México (Pacific) (Pedroche et al. 2005).
South America: Argentina (Boraso de Zaixso 2004), Chile (Ramírez & Santelices 1991, Hoffmann & Santelices 1997), Uruguay (Coll & Oliveira 1999).
Africa: Morocco (Gallardo et al. 1993, Benhissoune, Boudouresque & Verlaque 2001, Benhissoune, Boudouresque & Verlaque 2001), Senegal (John et al. 2004), South Africa (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Stegenga, Bolton & Anderson 1997).
Indian Ocean Islands: St. Paul Island (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996).
South-west Asia: Kuwait (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Pakistan (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Turkey (Asia) (Taskin et al. 2008 ).
Asia: China (Tseng 1984), Commander Islands (Selivanova & Zhigadlova 1997), Japan (Yoshida, Nakajima & Nakata 1990), Kamchatka (Selivanova & Zhigadlova 2009), Korea (Lee & Kang 2001).
Australia and New Zealand: New South Wales (Womersley 1984), New Zealand (Adams 1994), Queensland (Lewis 1987, Phillips 1997, Phillips 2002), South Australia (Womersley 1984), Victoria (Womersley 1984).
Antarctic and the subantarctic islands: Macquarie Island (Ricker 1987), South Shetland Islands (Gallardo, Pérez-Ruzafa, Flores-Moya & Conde 1999, Wiencke & Clayton 2002).
Key references
Brodie, J., Maggs, C.A. & John, D.M. (2007). Green seaweeds of Britain and Ireland. pp. [i-v], vi-xii, 1-242, 101 figs. London: British Phycological Society.
Burrows, E.M. (1991). Seaweeds of the British Isles. Volume 2. Chlorophyta. pp. xi + 238, 60 figs, 9 plates. London: Natural History Museum Publications.
Hollenberg, G.J. & Abbott, I.A. (1966). Supplement to Smith's marine algae of the Monterey Peninsula. pp. ix (xii), 1-130, 53 figs. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Lindstrom, S.C., Hanic, L.A. & Golden, L. (2006). Studies of the green alga Percursaria dawsonii (=Blidingia dawsonii comb. nov., Kornmanniaceae, Ulvales) in British Columbia. Phycological Research 54(1): 40-56, 3 tables, 19 figs.
Pedroche, F.F., Silva, P.C., Aguilar-Rosas, L.E., Dreckmann, K.M. & Aguilar-Rosas, R. (2005). Catálogo de las algas marinas bentónicas del Pacífico de México. I. Chlorophycota. pp. i-viii, 17-146. Ensenada, México: Universidad Autónoma de Baja California.
Selivanova, O.N. & Zhigadlova, G.G. (2009). Marine benthic algae of the South Kamchatka state wildlife sanctuary (Kamchatka, Russia). Botanica Marina 52(4): 317-329.
SAG Cultures
No records have been found on the SAG site.
NCBI Nucleotide Sequences
Created: 31 March 1996 by M.D. Guiry
Verified by: 10 May 2010 by Wendy Guiry
Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 2743 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.)
Boraso, A.L. (1970). Sobre la presencia de Blidingia minima (Nägeli ex Kützing) Kylin var. Minima en la Argentina (Chlorophyta, Ulvaceae). Physis 30: 167-170.
Garbary, D.J. & Tam, C. (1989). Blidingia minima var. stolonifera var. nov. (Ulvales, Chlorophyta) from British Columbia: systematics, life history and morphogenesis. Nordic Journal of Botany 9: 321-328.
Iima, M. (1989). Geographical variation of development and life history of Blidingia minima (Chlorophyceae) from Japan. Scientific Papers of the Institute of Algological Research, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido Imperial University 8(2): 157-185.
Karsten, U. & Kirst, G.O. (1989). Intracellular solutes, photosynthesis and respiration of the green alga Blidingia minima in response to salinity stress. Botan. Acta 102: 123-128.
Prange, R.K. (1978). An autecological study of Blidingia minima var. subsalsa (Chlorophyceae) in the Squamish estuary (British Columbia). Canadian Journal of Botany 56: 170-179.
Reis-Santos, R.P. (1992). Blidingia minima (Nägeli ex Kützing) Kylin var. minima (Monostromataceae - Chlorophyta), ocorrência nova para a costa brasileira. Hoehna 19: 125-128.
Swanson, J.A. & Floyd, G.L. (1978). Fine structure of the zoospores and thallus of Blidingia minima. Trans. Amer. Micros. Soc. 97: 549-558.
Tatewaki, M. & Iima, M. (1984). Life histories of Blidingia minima (Chlorophyceae), especially sexual reproduction. Journal of Phycology 20: 368-376.
Woolcott, G.W., Iima, M. & King, R.J. (2000). Speciation within Blidingia minima (Chlorophyta) in Japan: evidence from morphology, ontogeny and analyses of nuclear rDNA ITS sequence. Journal of Phycology 36: 227-236.
