Erythrotrichia carnea (Dillwyn) J.Agardh

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Rhodophyta
Subphylum Metarhodophytina
Class Compsopogonophyceae
Order Erythropeltidales
Family Erythrotrichiaceae
Genus Erythrotrichia

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Publication details
Erythrotrichia carnea (Dillwyn) J.Agardh 1883: 15

Original publication: Agardh, J.G. (1883). Till algernes systematik. Nya bidrag. (Tredje afdelningen.). Lunds Universitets Års-Skrift, Afdelningen for Mathematik och Naturvetenskap 19(2): 1-177, 4 plates.
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Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Erythrotrichia is Erythrotrichia ceramicola (Lyngbye) Areschoug.

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

Basionym
Conferva carnea Dillwyn

Type information
Type locality: near Loughor (Llwchwr), Glamorgan, Wales (Brodie & Irvine 2003: 67). Type: W.W. Young; Septemer 1805; on other Confervae on rocks in river near confluence with Sea.... BM (Brodie & Irvine 2003: 67). Notes: Ex herb. Foster

Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), flesh-coloured (Stearn 1973).

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Erythrocladia carnea (Dillwyn) ?
Conferva carnea Dillwyn 1807
Bangia ciliaris subsp. pulchella (Harvey) De Toni 1897

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Conferva ceramicola Lyngbye 1819
Ceramium ceramicola (Lyngbye) Hornemann 1836
Ceramicola rubra Oersted 1844
Erythrotrichia ceramicola (Lyngbye) Areschoug 1850
Bangia pulchella Harvey 1859
Erythrotrichia australis Levring 1953
Erythrotrichia filibasalis Noda 1987

General environment
This is a marine species.

Habitat
Epiphytic on various algae (e.g. Porphyra, Polyides, Dictyota, Padina) and on eelgrass Zostera; midlittoral to shallow sublittoral in sheltered habitats, also deep sublittoral (Brodie & Irvine 2003: 67).

Distribution by country

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Type information
Type locality: Glamorgan (Loughor), Wales (Brodie & Irvine 2003: 67). Isotype: [Erythrotrichia carnea, isolate J.A. West culture 4056 - see below] (epitype) W.W. Young; September 1805; 'on other Confervae on rocks in river near confluence with sea'. BM (Bourrelly 1981: 67). Notes: Epitype: Port Eynon (51º32'N, 04º12' W), on Laurencia sp., Gower, Wales, Great Britain, collected by Juliet Brodie, 5 September 1997; deposited NSW865944.

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Erythrotrichia ceramicola (Lyngbye) Areschoug)
Europe: Adriatic (Giaccone 1978), Sweden (Kylin 1907).

Atlantic Islands: Cape Verde Islands (John, Price, Maggs & Lawson 1979).

(as Erythrotrichia carnea (Dillwyn) J.Agardh)
Arctic: Canada (Arctic) (Taylor 1957, Lee 1980).

Ireland: Antrim (Johnson & Hensman 1896, Adams 1907, Guiry 1978, Morton 1994), Clare (De Valéra et al. 1979, Maggs 1983), Cork (Guiry 1978), Donegal (Guiry 1978, Morton 2003), Down (Morton 1994), Dublin (Guiry 1978), Galway (Maggs 1983), Mayo (Cotton 1912, Guiry 1978), Waterford (Guiry 1977, Guiry 1978), Wexford (Norton 1970, Guiry 1978).

Europe: Adriatic (Giaccone 1978, Ercegovic 1980), Balearic Islands (Ribera Siguán 1983, Ribera Siguán & Gómez Garreta 1984), Baltic Sea (Nielsen et al. 1995), Britain (Newton 1931, Guiry 1997, Lipkin & Silva 2002, Hardy & Guiry 2003), Bulgaria (Dimitrova-Konaklieva 1981), Corsica (Boudouresque & Perret 1977, Coppejans 1979), Faroe Islands (Irvine 1982, Nielsen & Gunnarsson 2001), France (Feldmann 1939, Feldmann 1954, Coppejans 1995, Verlaque 2001, Dizerbo & Herpe 2007, Loiseaux-de Goër & Noailles 2008, Anon. 2012), Greece (Gerloff & Geissler 1974, Diapoulis, Haritonidis & Koussouris 1986, Athanasiadis 1987, Tsirika & Haritonidis 2005), Helgoland (Bartsch & Kuhlenkamp 2000), Ireland (Adams 1907, Cotton 1912, Guiry 1977, Guiry 1978, De Valéra et al. 1979, Maggs 1983, Morton 1994, Guiry 2012), Italy (Giaccone 1969, Cinelli et al. 1976, Cecere et al. 1996, Furnari, Cormaci & Serio 1999, Rindi, Sartoni & Cinelli 2002, Furnari et al. 2003, Furnari et al. 2003, Furnari et al. 2003, Furnari et al. 2003, Serio et al 2006), Malta (Cormaci et al. 1997), Netherlands (Stegenga & Mol 1983, Stegenga, Kaaremans & Simons 2007), Norway (Rueness 1997), Portugal (Ardré 1970, Araujo et al. 2009, Bárbara et al. 2012, Araújo, Bárbara & Sousa-Pinto in press), Romania (Caraus 2002, Caraus 2012), Sardinia (Furnari et al. 2003), Scandinavia (Athanasiadis 1996), Spain (Miranda 1931, Ballesteros 1981, Barcelo & Seoane 1982, Ballesteros & Romero 1982, Boisset & Barceló 1984, Gallardo et al. 1985, Soto & Conde 1989, Pérez-Ruzafa 1990, Pérez-Ruzafa et al. 1991, Granja, Cremades & Barbara 1992, Barbara, Cremades & López Rodriguez 1992, Flores-Moya et al. 1994, Bárbara & Cremades 1996, Conde et al. 1996, Rodríguez-Prieto & Polo, L. 1996, Rodriguez-Prieto et al. 1997, Cremades, Bárbara, Granja & Veiga 1997, Rodriguez-Prieto & Polo Albertí 1998, Peña & Bárbara 2002, Valenzuela Miranda 2002, Gorostiaga et al., 2004, Bárbara et al. 2005, Diaz-Tapia & Bárbara 2005, Peña & Bárbara 2006, Martínez-Gil et al. 2007, Morais e Silva, Lavelli & Rull Lluch 2008, Peña & Bárbara 2008, Peña & Bárbara 2010, Cires Rodriguez & Cuesta Moliner 2010), Sweden (Kylin 1944), Turkey (Europe) (Taskin et al. 2008).

Atlantic Islands: Ascension (John, Price, Maggs & Lawson 1979, John et al. 2004), Azores (Neto 1994), Bermuda (Taylor 1957, Taylor 1960), Canary Islands (John, Price, Maggs & Lawson 1979, Gil-Rodríguez & Afonso-Carrillo 1980, Guadalupe et al. 1995, Haroun et al. 2002, Gil-Rodríguez et al. 2003, John et al. 2004, Domínguez-Alvarez et al. 2005, Anon 2011), Cape Verde Islands (John, Price, Maggs & Lawson 1979, Otero-Schmitt & Sanjuan 1992, John et al. 2004, Prud'homme van Reine, Haroun & Kostermans 2005), Madeira (Levring 1974, Neto, Cravo & Haroun 2001, John et al. 2004), Salvage Islands (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, Scagel et al. 1989, Miller 2012, Miller 2012, Miller 2012, Miller 2012), Florida (Taylor 1957, Taylor 1960, Littler, Littler & Hanisak 2008), Gulf of California (Dawson 1944), Maine (Taylor 1957, Mathieson et al. 2001), Maritime Provinces (Taylor 1957), Mexico (Dawson 1953), New Jersey (Taylor 1957), North Carolina (Taylor 1957, Taylor 1960), Oregon (Hansen 1997), Texas (Wynne 2009), Virginia (Humm 1979), Washington (Scagel et al. 1989).

Central America: Costa Rica (Fernández-García et al. 2011).

Caribbean Islands: Bahamas (Taylor 1960, Ballantine, D.L. & N.E. Aponte 2005), Barbados (Taylor 1969), Cuba (Suárez 2005), Danish West Indies (Børgesen 1915), Hispaniola (Taylor 1960, Betancourt & Herrera-Moreno, 2001), Lesser Antilles (Taylor 1969), Martinique (Rodríguez-Prieto, Michanek & Ivon 1999), Netherlands Antilles (Taylor 1960), Virgin Islands (Taylor 1960).

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

South America: Argentina (Boraso & Zaixso 2011), Brazil (Joly 1965, Oliveira Filho 1977, Villaca et al. 2010 , Creed et al. 2010), Chile (Ramírez & Santelices 1991, Hoffmann & Santelices 1997), Colombia (Díaz-Pulido & Díaz-Ruíz 2003), Galápagos Islands (Ruiz & Ziemmeck 2011), Peru (Ramírez & Santelices 1991), Uruguay (Coll & Oliveira 1999), Venezuela (Ganesan 1990).

Africa: Benin (John, Price, Maggs & Lawson 1979, Lawson & John 1987, John, Lawson & Ameka, 2003, John et al. 2004), Egypt (Papenfuss 1968, Aleem 1993), Eritrea (Lipkin & Silva 2002), Gabon (John, Price, Maggs & Lawson 1979, Lawson & John 1987, John, Lawson & Ameka, 2003, John et al. 2004), Gambia (John, Price, Maggs & Lawson 1979, Lawson & John 1987, John, Lawson & Ameka, 2003, John et al. 2004), Ghana (John, Price, Maggs & Lawson 1979, Lawson & John 1987, John, Lawson & Ameka, 2003, John et al. 2004), Liberia (John, Price, Maggs & Lawson 1979, Lawson & John 1987, John, Lawson & Ameka, 2003, John et al. 2004), Madagascar (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Mauritania (John, Price, Maggs & Lawson 1979, John et al. 2004), Mauritius (Børgesen 1942, Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Morocco (Dangeard 1949), Namibia (Stegenga, Engledow, Bolton & Anderson 2001), Senegal (John, Price, Maggs & Lawson 1979, John et al. 2004), Sierra Leone (John, Price, Maggs & Lawson 1979, Lawson & John 1987, John, Lawson & Ameka, 2003, John et al. 2004), South Africa (John, Price, Maggs & Lawson 1979, Stegenga, Bolton & Anderson 1997, Stegenga, Engledow, Bolton & Anderson 2001, Stegenga, Engledow, Bolton & Anderson 2001), Togo (John, Price, Maggs & Lawson 1979, Lawson & John 1987, John, Lawson & Ameka, 2003, John et al. 2004), Tunisia (Meñez & Mathieson 1981, Ben Maiz, Boudouresque & Quahchi 1987).

Indian Ocean Islands: Aldabra Islands (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Maldives (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Seychelles (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996).

Asia: China (Zeng 2009), Japan (Okamura 1936, Yoshida, Nakajima & Nakata 1990, Yoshida 1998, Titlyanov et al 2006), Korea (Lee & Kang 2001, Lee 2008, Kim & Kim 2011), Russia (Perestenko 1980), Taiwan (Anon. 2012).

South-east Asia: Indonesia (Atmadja & Prud'homme van Reine 2012), Singapore (Teo & Wee 1983, Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Pham et al. 2011), Vietnam (Pham-Hoàng 1969, Abbott, Fisher & McDermid 2002).

Australia and New Zealand: Australia (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Lord Howe Island (Millar & Kraft 1993), New South Wales (Millar & Kraft 1993), New Zealand (Adams 1994, Nelson 2012), Queensland (Lewis 1984, Womersley 1994, Phillips 1997, Phillips 2002, Bostock & Holland 2010), South Australia (Womersley 1994), Tasmania (Womersley 1994), Victoria (Womersley 1994), Western Australia (Womersley 1994).

Pacific Islands: American Samoa (Tsuda et al. 2011 ), Easter Island (Børgesen 1924, Santelices & Abbott 1987), Federated States of Micronesia (Lobban & Tsuda 2003, Tsuda 2006), Fiji (N'Yeurt, South & Keats 1996, South & Skelton 2003), French Polynesia (N'Yeurt & Payri 2010), Guam (Lobban & N'Yeurt 2006), Hawaiian Islands (Abbott 1999, Skelton & South 2007), Mariana Islands (Tsuda 2003), Marshall Islands (Taylor 1950), Samoa (Skelton & South 2007), Solomon Islands (Womersley & Bailey 1970).

Antarctic and the subantarctic islands: Antarctica/Subantarctic Islands (Papenfuss 1964), Tierra del Fuego (Wiencke & Clayton 2002), Victoria Land (Wiencke & Clayton 2002).

(as Erythrotrichia australis Levring)
Australia and New Zealand: New South Wales (Millar & Kraft 1993).

(as Erythrotrichia filibasalis Noda)
Asia: Japan (Yoshida, Nakajima & Nakata 1990).

Taxonomic notes
John et. al. (2004) cite Erythrotrichia investiens (Zanardini) Bornet and Erythrotrichia obscura Berthold as synonyms of this species.

Key references
Brodie, J. & Irvine, L.M. (2003). Seaweeds of the British Isles. Volume 1. Rhodophyta. Part 3B. Bangiophycidae. pp. i-xiii, 1-167, map. Andover: Intercept.

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.

Funk, G. (1955). Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Meeresalgen von Neapel: Zugleich mikrophotographischer Atlas. Pubblicazioni della Stazione Zoologica di Napoli 25(Suppl.): i-x , 1- 178, 36 figs.

Kim, H.-S. & Kim, S.-M. (2011). Algal flora of Korea. Volume 4, Number 1. Rhodophyta: Stylonematophyceae, Compsopogonophyceae, Bangiophyceae. Primitive red algae. pp. [1-6], 1-138, figs 1-101. 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.

Skelton, P.A. & South, G.R. (2007). The benthic marine algae of the Samoan Archipelago, South Pacific, with emphasis on the Apia District. Nova Hedwigia Beihefte 132: 1-350.

Smith, G.M. (1944). Marine algae of the Monterey Peninsula. pp. i-ix, 1-622, 98 pls. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Womersley, H.B.S. (1994). The marine benthic flora of southern Australia - Part IIIA - Bangiophyceae and Florideophyceae (Acrochaetiales, Nemaliales, Gelidiales, Hildenbrandiales and Gigartinales sensu lato). pp. 1-508, 167 figs, 4 pls, 4 maps. Canberra: Australian Biological Resources Study.

Wynne, M.J. (2005). A check-list of benthic marine algae of the tropical and subtropical western Atlantic: second revision. Beihefte zur Nova Hedwigia 129: 1-152.

Zuccarello, G.C., Yoon, H.S., Kim, H., Sun, L., de Goer, S.L. & West, J.A. (2011). Molecular phylogeny of the upright Erythropeltidales (Compsopogonophyceae, Rhodophyta): multiple cryptic lineages of Erythrotrichia carnea. Journal of Phycology 47(3 ): 627-637.

UTEX Cultures
UTEX Culture LB 1425 Erythrotrichia carnea
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CCAP Cultures
CCAP Strain Number 1369/1 Erythrotrichia carnea (Dillwyn) J.Agardh
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SAG Cultures
SAG Cultures may be viewed at http://sagdb.uni-goettingen.de/showstrains.php?genus=Erythrotrichia&species=carnea

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=Erythrotrichia&Species=carnea

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 09 April 1996 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 08 February 2012 by M.D. Guiry

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References
(Please note: only references with the binomials in the title are included. The information is from the Literature database.)

Bjørnland, T. (1984). Chlorophyll a and carotenoids of the red alga Erythrotrichia carnea. Biochem. Syst. Ecol. 12: 279-283.
Dixon, P.S. & West, J.A. (1967). In situ spore germination in Erythrotrichia carnea. British Phycological Bulletin 3: 253-255.
Magne, F. (1990). Reproduction sexuée chez Erythrotrichia carnea (Rhodophyceae, Erythropeltidales).. Cryptogamie, Algologie 11: 157-170.
Zuccarello, G.C., Yoon, H.S., Kim, H., Sun, L., de Goer, S.L. & West, J.A. (2011). Molecular phylogeny of the upright Erythropeltidales (Compsopogonophyceae, Rhodophyta): multiple cryptic lineages of Erythrotrichia carnea. Journal of Phycology 47(3 ): 627-637.

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