Acanthophora muscoides (Linnaeus) Bory de Saint-Vincent

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

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1. Branching pattern. 2. Fragment with spines on branches and branchlets. 3. Fragment with rape cystocarp. 4. Plant growing on rope of lobster farm construction (Mot Island, Nhatrang Bay, Vietnam).. 29 Feb 2012. Eduard and Tamara Titlyanova (etitlyanov@mail.ru). © Eduard and Tamara Titlyanova (etitlyanov@mail.ru).

Trinidad; cystocarps. 25 Oct 2010. Julian Duncan. © Julian Duncan.

Trinidad; vegetative plants. 25 Oct 2010. Julian Duncan. © Julian Duncan.

Acanthophora muscoides (Linnaeus) Bory de Saint-Vincent 1. Branching pattern. 2. Fragment with spines on branches and branchlets. 3. Fragment with rape cystocarp. 4. Plant growing on rope of lobster farm construction (Mot Island, Nhatrang Bay, Vietnam).

Publication details
Acanthophora muscoides (Linnaeus) Bory de Saint-Vincent 1828: 156

Original publication: Bory de St. Vincent, J.B. (1828). Botanique, Cryptogamie. In: Voyage autour du monde, exécuté par ordre du Roi, sur la corvette de Sa Majesté, la Coquille, pendant les années 1822, 1823, 1824 et 1825. (Duperrey, L.I. Eds), pp. 97-200. Paris: Bertrand.
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Type species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Acanthophora is Acanthophora thierryi J.V.Lamouroux.

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

Basionym
Chondria muscoides C.Agardh

Type information
Type locality: Brazil (de Jong, Hitipeuw & Prud'Homme van Reine 1999: 133). Neotype: LD 94/068.9765 (nº38011) (de Jong, Hitipeuw & Prud'Homme van Reine 1999: 131). Notes: Agardh's specimen, Chondria muscoides from Brazil, inscribed "Chondria muscoides Ag. ad oras Brasiliam & ex. mus. Paris dedit Desfontaines", deposited in small fragments at the herbarium of Lund is proposed as neotype by de Jong et al. (1999).

Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), resembling a moss (Neal 1993).

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Chondria muscoides C.Agardh 1822

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Acanthophora militaris J.V.Lamouroux
Chondria muscoides var. turneri C.Agardh
Fucus muscoides Linnaeus 1753

General environment
This is a Marine species.

Distribution by country

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Chondria muscoides C.Agardh)
South America: Brazil (de Jong, Hitipeuw & Prud'Homme van Reine 1999).

(as Acanthophora muscoides (Linnaeus) Bory de Saint-Vincent)
Europe: Turkey (Europe) (Gómez Garreta et al. 2001, Einav 2007).

Atlantic Islands: Ascension (Price, John & Lawson 1986, John et al. 2004).

North America: Florida (Taylor 1960, de Jong, Hitipeuw & Prud'Homme van Reine 1999, Littler, Littler & Hanisak 2008), Mexico (Taylor 1960).

Central America: Belize (Taylor 1960), Costa Rica (Taylor 1960), Panama (Taylor 1960, de Jong, Hitipeuw & Prud'Homme van Reine 1999).

Caribbean Islands: Bahamas (Taylor 1960), Barbados (Taylor 1960, Taylor 1969), Caribbean (Littler & Littler 2000), Cuba (Taylor 1960, Suárez 2005), Hispaniola (Taylor 1960), Jamaica (Taylor 1960), Lesser Antilles (Taylor 1960, Taylor 1969), Martinique (Rodríguez-Prieto, Michanek & Ivon 1999), Puerto Rico (de Jong, Hitipeuw & Prud'Homme van Reine 1999), Trinidad & Tobago (Taylor 1960, Richardson 1975, Duncan & Lee Lum 2006), Virgin Islands (Taylor 1960), West Indies (de Jong, Hitipeuw & Prud'Homme van Reine 1999).

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

South America: Brazil (Taylor 1930, Taylor 1960, Oliveira Filho 1977, de Jong, Hitipeuw & Prud'Homme van Reine 1999, Creed et al. 2010), Colombia (Taylor 1960).

Africa: Angola (Price, John & Lawson 1986, John et al. 2004), Cameroon (Price, John & Lawson 1986, Lawson & John 1987, John, Lawson & Ameka, 2003, John et al. 2004), Equatorial Guinea (Price, John & Lawson 1986, Lawson & John 1987, John, Lawson & Ameka, 2003, John et al. 2004), Gabon (Price, John & Lawson 1986, Lawson & John 1987, John, Lawson & Ameka, 2003, John et al. 2004), Gambia (Price, John & Lawson 1986, Lawson & John 1987, John, Lawson & Ameka, 2003, John et al. 2004), Kenya (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Bolton, Oyieke & Gwanda 2007), Madagascar (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Mozambique (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), São Tomé & Príncipe (Price, John & Lawson 1986, John, Lawson & Ameka, 2003, John et al. 2004), Senegal (de Jong, Hitipeuw & Prud'Homme van Reine 1999), Tanzania (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Oliveira, Österlund & Mtolera 2005).

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

South-west Asia: India (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Sahoo et al. 2001), Iran (Sohrabipour & Rabii 1999), Kuwait (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Oman (Wynne & Jupp 1998), Turkey (Asia) (Taskin et al. 2008), Yemen (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996).

Asia: China (Tseng 1984), Japan (Yoshida, Nakajima & Nakata 1990, Yoshida 1998), Korea (Lee 2008), Taiwan (Anon. 2012).

South-east Asia: Indonesia (Verheij & Prud'homme van Reine 1993, Atmadja & Prud'homme van Reine 2012), Philippines (Silva, Meñez & Moe 1987, Kraft et al. 1999), Singapore (Teo & Wee 1983, Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Pham et al. 2011), Vietnam (Titlyanov & Titlyanov 2012).

Australia and New Zealand: Auckland Islands (Papenfuss 1964), Queensland (Lewis 1984, Cribb 1996, Phillips 1997, Phillips 2002).

Pacific Islands: Federated States of Micronesia (Tsuda 2006).

Taxonomic notes
According to Perrone et al. (2006: 37), several specimens identified as A. muscoides (from various locations) belong to A. spicifera or A. ramulosa. These specimens include the neotype selected by de Jong et al. (1999). See note for Chondria muscoides. Other observed herbarium samples should be assigned to A. dendroides or A. nayadiformis (Perrone et al., 2006: 39).

Key references
Dawes, C.J. & Mathieson, A.C. (2008). The seaweeds of Florida. pp. [i]- viii, [1]-591, [592], pls I-LI. Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida.

Jong, Y.S.D.M. de, Hitipeuw, C. & Prud'Homme van Reine, W.F. (1999). A taxonomic, phylogenetic and biogeographic study of the genus Acanthophora (Rhodomelaceae, Rhodophyta). Blumea 44: 217-249.

Okamura, K. (1907). Icones of Japanese algae. Vol. I pp. 23-49, pls VI-X. Tokyo: The Author.

Papenfuss, G.F. (1964). Catalogue and bibliography of Antarctic and Sub-Antarctic benthic marine algae. In: Bibliography of the Antarctic Seas. (Lee, M.O. Eds) Vol.1, pp. 1-76. Washington D.C.: American Geophysical Union.

Perrone, C., Cecere, E. & Furnari, G. (2006). Growth pattern assessment in the genus Acanthophora (Rhodophyta, Ceramiales). Phycologia 45: 37-43.

Titlyanov, E.A. & Titlyanov, T.V. (2012). Marine plants of the Asian Pacific Region countries, their use and cultivation. pp. [1]-376, many col. photographs. Vladivostok: Dalnauka & A.V. Zhirmunsky Institute of Marine Biology Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Xia, B.[M.] (2011). Flora algarum marinarum sinicarum Tomus II Rhodophyta No. VII Ceramiales Rhodomelaceae. pp. [i]-xxi, 1-212, pls I-XIII. Beijing: Science Press.

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

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=Acanthophora&Species=muscoides

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 27 January 1998 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 20 May 2013 by M.D. Guiry

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