Hypnea musciformis (Wulfen) J.V.Lamouroux

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Subkingdom Biliphyta
Phylum Rhodophyta
Subphylum Eurhodophytina
Class Florideophyceae
Subclass Rhodymeniophycidae
Order Gigartinales
Family Cystocloniaceae
Genus Hypnea

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Tanzania. Katrin Østerlund. © Katrin Østerlund. From: Oliveira, E., Österlund, K. & Mtolera, M.S.P. (2005). Marine Plants of Tanzania. A field guide to the seaweeds and seagrasses. pp. 267, Numerous coloured illustrations and line drawings. Stockholm: Botany Department, Stockholm University.

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Publication details
Hypnea musciformis (Wulfen) J.V.Lamouroux 1813: 43 (131 in reprint)

Original publication: Lamouroux, J.V.F. (1813). Essai sur les genres de la famille des thalassiophytes non articulées. Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris 20: 21-47, 115-139, 267-293, Plates 7-13.
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Type species
This is the type species (holotype) of the genus Hypnea.

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

Basionym
Fucus musciformis Wulfen

Type information
Type locality: Trieste, Italy (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996: 300).

Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), moss-like.

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Fucus musciformis Wulfen 1789

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Sphaerococcus musciformis (Wulfen) C.Agardh 1822
Sphaerococcus divaricatus C.Agardh 1827
Hypnea rissoana J.Agardh 1842
Hypnea arborescens P.L.Crouan & H.M.Crouan 1865

General environment
This is a marine species.

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Fucus musciformis Wulfen)
Europe: Balearic Islands (Clemente 1818), Spain (Roxas Clemente y Rubio 1807).

(as Hypnea musciformis (Wulfen) J.V.Lamouroux)
Europe: Adriatic (Giaccone 1978, Munda 1979), Balearic Islands (Colmeiro, M. 1868, Piccone 1889, Rodríguez y Femenías 1889, Garcías 1919, Bellón 1921, Bellón 1942, Navarro & Bellón 1945, Seoane-Camba 1969, Gómez Garreta 1983, Ribera Siguán 1983, Ribera Siguán & Gómez Garreta 1984), Corsica (Boudouresque & Perret 1977, Coppejans 1979), France (Coppejans 1972, Verlaque 2001, Dizerbo & Herpe 2007 ), Greece (Gerloff & Geissler 1974, Haritonidis & Tsekos 1976, Tsekos & Haritonidis 1977, Athanasiadis 1987), Isla de Alborán (Conde & Flores Moya 2000), Italy (Giaccone 1969, Feoli & Bressan 1972, Edwards et al. 1975, 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 (Price 1970, Cormaci et al. 1997), Portugal (Ardré 1970, Cremades et al., 2002, Araújo et al., 2003, Araujo et al. 2009), Sardinia (Furnari et al. 2003), Spain (Lázaro Ibiza 1889, Sauvageau 1897, Miranda 1931, Seoane-Camba 1965, Ballesteros 1981, Barcelo & Seoane 1982, Ballesteros & Romero 1982, Fernández & Niell 1982, Fernández, Niell & Anadón 1983, Pérez-Ruzafa & Honrubia 1984, Gallardo et al. 1985, Anadón & Fernández 1986, Rodriguez Prieto & Polo Alberti 1988, Soto & Conde 1989, Flores-Moya et al. 1994, Conde et al. 1996, Rodríguez-Prieto & Polo, L. 1996, Rodriguez-Prieto & Polo Albertí 1998, Valenzuela Miranda 2002, Bárbara et al., 2003, Gorostiaga et al., 2004, Bárbara et al. 2004, Bárbara et al. 2005, Diaz-Tapia & Bárbara 2005, Pérez-Ruzafa et al. 2008, de los Santos, Pérez-Lloréns & Vergara 2009, Mercado et al. 2009), Turkey (Europe) (Güven & Öztig 1971, Cirik, Zeybeck, Aysel & Cirik 1990, Taskin et al. 2008 , Percot, Yalcin, Aysel, Erdugan, Durral & Guven 2009).

Atlantic Islands: Azores (Tittley & Neto 1994, Neto 1994), Bermuda (Taylor 1960), Canary Islands (Børgesen 1929, Gil-Rodríguez & Afonso-Carrillo 1980, Viera-Rodriguez et al. 1987, Guadalupe et al. 1995, Haroun et al. 2002, Gil-Rodríguez et al. 2003, John et al. 2004), Cape Verde Islands (John et al. 2004, Prud'homme van Reine, Haroun & Kostermans 2005), Madeira (Levring 1974, Neto, Cravo & Haroun 2001, John et al. 2004), Salvage Islands (Audiffred & Weisscher 1984, Parente et al. 2000, John et al. 2004).

North America: Florida (Schneider & Searles 1991, Littler, Littler & Hanisak 2008), Georgia (Schneider & Searles 1991), Mexico (Taylor 1960), North Carolina (Taylor 1960, Schneider & Searles 1991, Kapraun & Dunwoody 2002), South Carolina (Taylor 1960, Schneider & Searles 1991), Texas (Taylor 1960, Wynne 2009), Virginia (Humm 1979).

Central America: Belize (Taylor 1960, Littler & Littler 1997), Costa Rica (Taylor 1960), Panama (Taylor 1960).

Caribbean Islands: Bahamas (Taylor 1960), Barbados (Taylor 1960, Taylor 1969), Caicos Islands (Taylor 1960), Caribbean (Littler & Littler 2000), Cayman Islands (Taylor 1960), Cuba (Taylor 1960, Cabrera, Moreira & Suárez 2004, Suárez 2005), Hispaniola (Taylor 1960, Betancourt & Herrera-Moreno, 2001), Jamaica (Taylor 1960), Lesser Antilles (Taylor 1960, Taylor 1969), Martinique (Rodríguez-Prieto, Michanek & Ivon 1999), Netherlands Antilles (Taylor 1960), Puerto Rico (Taylor 1960), Trinidad & Tobago (Taylor 1960, Richardson 1975, Duncan & Lee Lum 2006), Virgin Islands (Taylor 1960).

South America: Brazil (Taylor 1930, Joly 1957, Taylor 1960, Joly 1965, Falcão & Menezes de Széchy 2005, Castelar et al. 2009), Colombia (Taylor 1960, Díaz-Pulido & Díaz-Ruíz 2003), Guyana (Taylor 1960), Uruguay (Taylor 1960, Coll & Oliveira 1999), Venezuela (Taylor 1960, Ganesan 1990).

Africa: Angola (John et al. 2004), Cameroon (Lawson & John 1987, John, Lawson & Ameka, 2003, John et al. 2004), Congo (John et al. 2004), Côte d'Ivoire (Lawson & John 1987, John, Lawson & Ameka, 2003, John et al. 2004), Djibouti (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Egypt (Papenfuss 1968, Aleem 1993), Ethiopia (Papenfuss 1968), Gabon (Lawson & John 1987, John, Lawson & Ameka, 2003, John et al. 2004), Gambia (Lawson & John 1987, John, Lawson & Ameka, 2003, John et al. 2004), Ghana (Lawson & John 1987, John, Lawson & Ameka, 2003, John et al. 2004), Guinea-Bissau (Welten, Audiffred & Prud'homme van Reine 2002, Welten, Audiffred & Prud'homme van Reine 2002, John, Lawson & Ameka, 2003, John et al. 2004), Kenya (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Liberia (Lawson & John 1987, John, Lawson & Ameka, 2003, John et al. 2004), Madagascar (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Mauritania (John et al. 2004), Mauritius (Børgesen 1943, Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Morocco (Dangeard 1949, Conde Poyales 1992), Mozambique (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Namibia (Rull Lluch 2002, John et al. 2004), Nigeria (Lawson & John 1987, John, Lawson & Ameka, 2003, John et al. 2004), São Tomé & Príncipe (Lawson & John 1987, John, Lawson & Ameka, 2003, John et al. 2004), Senegal (John et al. 2004), Sierra Leone (Lawson & John 1987, John, Lawson & Ameka, 2003, John et al. 2004), South Africa (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Stegenga, Bolton & Anderson 1997), Tanzania (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Oliveira, Österlund & Mtolera 2005), Togo (Lawson & John 1987, John, Lawson & Ameka, 2003, John et al. 2004), Tunisia (Meñez & Mathieson 1981, Ben Maiz, Boudouresque & Quahchi 1987), Western Sahara (John et al. 2004).

Indian Ocean Islands: Andaman Islands (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Laccadive Islands (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Maldives (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Nicobar Islands (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Réunion (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Seychelles (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), St. Paul Island (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996).

South-west Asia: Bangladesh (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), India (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Sahoo et al. 2001), Iran (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Sohrabipour & Rabii 1999), Israel (Hoffman 2004, Einav 2007), Jordan (Papenfuss 1968), Oman (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Pakistan (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Saudi Arabia (Papenfuss 1968), Sri Lanka (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Turkey (Asia) (Taskin et al. 2008 ), Yemen (Papenfuss 1968, Silva, Basson & Moe 1996).

South-east Asia: Indonesia (Verheij & Prud'homme van Reine 1993, Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Myanmar (Burma) (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Philippines (Silva, Meñez & Moe 1987), Singapore (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996).

Australia and New Zealand: Queensland (Phillips 1997, Phillips 2002), Western Australia (Huisman & Walker 1990).

Pacific Islands: Hawaiian Islands (Abbott 1999, Smith, Hunter & Smith 2002).

Key references
Braune, W. (2008). Meeresalgen. Ein Farbbildführer zu den verbreiteten benthischen Grün- Braun- und Rotalgen der Weltmeere. pp. [1]-596, 266 pls. Ruggell: A.R.G. Gantner Verlag.

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.

Masuda, M., Yamagishi, Y., Chiang, Y.-M., Lewmanomont, K. & Xia, B.M. (1997). Overview of Hypnea (Rhodophyta, Hypneaceae). In: Taxonomy of Economic Seaweeds. (Abbott, I.A. Eds) Vol.6, pp. 127-133. La Jolla, California: California Sea Grant College System.

Okamura, K. (1909). Icones of Japanese Algae. Vol. II pp. 21-40, Plates LVI-LX. Tokyo.

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

Apt, K.E. (1984). Note: Effects of the symbiotic red alga Hypneocolax stellaris on its host Hypnea musciformis (Hypneaceae, Gigartinales). Journal of Phycology 20: 148-150, 1 fig, 1 table.
Berchez, F. A. S., Pereira, R. T. L. & Kamiya, N. F. (1993). Culture of Hypnea musciformis (Rhodophyta, Gigartinales) on artificial substrates attached to linear ropes. Proceedings of the International Seaweed Symposium 14: 415-420.
Berchez, F.A.S. & Oliveira, E.C. (1990). Maricultual assays with the carrageenophyte Hypnea musciformis in S. Paulo, Brazil. In: Cultivation of seaweeds in Latin America. (Oliveira, E.C. & Kautsky, N. Eds), pp. 89-94. Sao Paulo: University of Sao Paulo.
Chiang, C.F., Xia, E.Z. & Xia, B.M. (1963). A comparative study of Hypnea musciformis (Wulf.) Lamx. and Hypnea japonica Tanaka. Oceanologia et limnologia Sinica 5: 35-43, 1 plate.
Dawes, C.J., Moon, R. & LaClaire, J. (1976). Photosynthetic responses of the red alga, Hypnea musciformis (Wulfen) Lamouroux (Gigartinales). Bulletin of Marine Science 26: 467-473.
De Goracuchi, C., Lokar-Coassini, L., Bruni, G. & Davanzo, S. (1969). Richerche sulle possibilità di sfruttamento economico delle alghe dell'Alto Adriatico. Caratteristiche fisico-chimiche del polisaccaride solfato dell' Hypnea musciformis e loro variabilità stagionale. Boll. Soc. Adriatica Sci. Trieste 57: 131-152.
Friedlander, M. & Zelikovitch (1984). Growth rates, phycocolloid yield and quality of the red seaweeds, Gracilaria sp., Pterocladia capillacea, Hypnea musciformis, and Hypnea cornuta, in field studies in Israel. Aquaculture 40: 57-66.
Haines, K.C. & Wheeler, P.A. (1978). Ammonium and nitrate uptake by the marine macrophytes Hypnea musciformis (Rhodophyta) and Macrocystis pyrifera (Phaeophyta). Journal of Phycology 14: 319-324, 6 figs, 3 tables.
Kapraun, D.F., Bailey, J.C. & Dutcher, J.A. (1994). Nuclear genome characterization of the Carrageenophyte Hypnea musciformis (Rhodophyta). Journal of Applied Phycology 6: 7-12.
Knutsen, S.H., Murano, E., D'Amato, M., Toffanin, R., Rizzo, R. & Paoletti, S. (1995). Modified procedures for extraction and analysis of carrageenan applied to the red alga Hypnea musciformis. Journal of Applied Phycology 7: 565-576.
Martins, A.P., Yokoya, N.S., Carvalho, M.A.M. & Plastino, E.M. (2009). Effects of kinetin and nitrogen on growth rates, pigment and protein contents in wild and phycoerythrin-deficient strains of Hypnea musciformis (Rhodophyta). Proceedings of the International Seaweed Symposium 19: 317-323, 5 figs.
Melo, V.M.M., Medeiros, D.A., Rios, F.J.B., Castelar, L.I.M. & Carvalho, A. de F.F.U. (1997). Antifungal properties of proteins (agglutinins) from the red alga Hypnea musciformis (Wulfen) Lamouroux.. Botanica Marina 40: 281-284.
Mollion, J. (1978). Seasonal variations in carrageenan from Hypnea musciformis, (Florideophyceae) in Senegal. Proceedings of the International Seaweed Symposium 9: 233-240.
Mshigeni, K.E. & Lorris, W.S.M. (1977). Spore germination and early stages of development in Hypnea musciformis (Rhodophyta, Gigartinales). Marine Biology, Berlin 42: 161-164, 2 figs.
Muñoz, O., Palma, H. & Guevara, G. (1986). Agar content of two species of Rhodophyte algae, Gracilaria domingensis Sonder and Hypnea musciformis (Wulfen) Lamouroux from the Margarita Island coast, Venezuela. Conv. Nac. Asivac. 36: 188.
Ramarao, K. & Krishnamurthy, V. (1968). Study of the preperation and properties of the phycocolloid from Hypnea musciformis (Wulf) Lamour from Veraval, Gujarat Coast. Botanica Marina 11: 129-134.
Reis, R.P. & Yoneshigue-Valentin, Y. (2000). Phenology of Hypnea musciformis (Wulfen) Lamouroux (Rhodophyta, Gigartinales) in three populations from Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil. Botanica Marina 43: 299-304, 4 figs.
Russell, D.J. (1992). The ecological invasion of Hawaiian reefs by two marine red algae, Acanthophora spicifera (Vahl.) Boerg. and Hypnea musciformis (Wulfen) J. Ag. and their association with two native species, Laurencia nidfica J. Ag. and Hypnea cervicornis J. Ag.. In: Introductions and Transfers of Aquatic Species. (Sinderman, C., Steinmetz, B. & Herschbergen, W. Eds), pp. 110-125. Halifax, N.S.: ICES Marine Science Symp.,.
Schenkman, R.P.F. (1989). Hypnea musciformis (Rhodophyta): ecological influence on growth. Journal of Phycology 25: 192-196.
Yokoya, N.S., Plastino, E.M. & Artel, R. (2003). Physiological responses and pigment characterization of two colour strains of the carrageenophyte Hypnea musciformis (Rhodophyta). Proceedings of the International Seaweed Symposium 17: 425-434.