Gigartina bracteata (S.G.Gmelin) Setchell & N.L.Gardner

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Rhodophyta
Subphylum Eurhodophytina
Class Florideophyceae
Subclass Rhodymeniophycidae
Order Gigartinales
Family Gigartinaceae
Genus Gigartina

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Publication details
Gigartina bracteata (S.G.Gmelin) Setchell & N.L.Gardner 1933: 258

Original publication: Setchell, W.A. & Gardner, N.L. (1933). A preliminary survey of Gigartina, with special reference to its Pacific North American species. University of California Publications in Botany 17: 255-339, Plates 46-65.

Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Gigartina is Gigartina pistillata (S.G.Gmelin) Stackhouse.

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

Basionym
Fucus bracteatus S.G.Gmelin

Type information
Type locality: "Mare indicum"* (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996: 903). Notes: *Silva et al. (1996: 903) note: Seba's (1758) illustrations, included in the protologue of Fucus bracteatus, were considered to constitute the type of F. bracteatus by Setchell & Gardner. Seba's material probably came from the Cape of Good Hope on the Atlantic Ocean. Gigartina bracteata is restricted to the cold waters of western Cape Province, South Africa. Rumphius (1750: 186) is also cited in the protologue. His alga (from Amboina on the Banda Sea, an outlier of the Pacific Ocean) was referred by G. Mertens (1863: 43) to Mastocarpus klenzeanus Kützing, a taxonomic synonym of Sarcodia montagneana (J. Hooker & Harvey J. Agardh. There is no indication that Gmelin had original collections at hand, so that the provenance "Mare indicum" shoud be considered erroneous. According to Parkinson (1981: 19), Gmelin's species is based primarily on the Rumphius plant and not on those of Seba (1750).

Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), bearing bracts.

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Fucus bracteatus S.G.Gmelin 1768

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Chondrodictyon capense Kützing 1843
Iridaea clathrata Decaisne 1844
Gigartina clathrata (Decaisne) Rabenhorst 1878

General environment
This is a marine species.

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Gigartina bracteata (S.G.Gmelin) Setchell & N.L.Gardner)
Africa: Namibia (Rull Lluch 2002, John et al. 2004), South Africa (Stegenga, Bolton & Anderson 1997).

Australia and New Zealand: Auckland Islands (Papenfuss 1964).

Key references
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.

Silva, P.C., Basson, P.W. & Moe, R.L. (1996). Catalogue of the benthic marine algae of the Indian Ocean. University of California Publications in Botany 79: 1-1259.

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

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=Gigartina&Species=bracteata

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 21 February 1998 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 13 July 2009 by Wendy Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 676 times since it was created.

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Citing AlgaeBase
Cite this record as:
Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2013. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org; searched on 26 May 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:74187