Acrochaetium alariae (Jónsson) Bornet
Publication details
Acrochaetium alariae (Jónsson) Bornet 1904: xix
Original publication: Bornet, É. (1904). Deux Chantransia corymbifera Thuret. Acrochaetium et Chantransia. Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France 51: xiv-xxiii, 1 plate (session jubilaire).
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Type species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Acrochaetium is Acrochaetium secundatum (Lyngbye) Nägeli.
Status of name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Basionym
Chantransia alariae Jónsson
Type information
Type locality: Hvammesfjord, Iceland (Athanasiadis 1996: 25). Type: C Jónsson No. 597
Origin of species name
resembling, or growing on or in species of the genus Alaria.
Homotypic Synonym(s)
Chantransia alariae Jónsson 1901
Rhodochorton alariae (Jónsson) Arwidsson 1936
Kylinia alariae (Jónsson) Kylin 1944
Chromastrum alariae (Jónsson) Papenfuss 1945
Audouinella alariae (Jónsson) Woelkerling 1973
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Rhodochorton repens Jónsson 1901
Chantransia unilateralis Kjellman 1906
Acrochaetium unilaterale (Kjellman) Hamel 1927
Acrochaetium jonssonii Papenfuss 1945
Audouinella unilateralis (Kjellman) G.R.South & Tittley 1986
Audouinella jonssonii (Papenfuss) G.R.South & Tittley 1986
General environment
This is a marine species.
Distribution by country
Point data for Ireland and Britain
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(as Chantransia alariae Jónsson)
Ireland: Antrim (Adams 1907), Mayo (Cotton 1912).
Europe: Ireland (Adams 1907, Cotton 1912).
(as Rhodochorton repens Jónsson)
Atlantic Islands: Iceland (Caram & Jónsson 1972, Garbary 1987).
(as Acrochaetium alariae (Jónsson) Bornet)
Europe: Britain (Parke & Dixon 1968, Hardy & Guiry 2003), France (Anon. 2012), Ireland (Guiry 2012), Scandinavia (Athanasiadis 1996).
Atlantic Islands: Iceland (Caram & Jónsson 1972).
Asia: Japan (Yoshida 1998), Russia (Perestenko 1994).
(as Kylinia alariae (Jónsson) Kylin)
North America: Maine (Taylor 1957), Massachusetts (Taylor 1957).
(as Chromastrum alariae (Jónsson) Papenfuss)
Europe: Netherlands (Stegenga & Mol 1983).
(as Audouinella alariae (Jónsson) Woelkerling)
Ireland: Antrim (Morton 1994).
Europe: Britain (Dixon & Irvine 1977, Guiry 1997), Faroe Islands (Irvine 1982), France (Dizerbo & Herpe 2007), Ireland (Dixon & Irvine 1977, Guiry 1978, Morton 1994), Italy (Báez et al 2005a, Báez et al. 2005b), Norway (Rueness 1997), Spain (Báez et al. 2005b).
North America: Maine (Mathieson et al. 2001), New Hampshire (Mathieson & Hehre 1986).
Asia: Japan (Yoshida, Nakajima & Nakata 1990).
Nomenclatural notes
Nielsen & Gunnarsson (2001: 51) record the authorities for this species as (Jónss.) Batters.
Key references
Dixon, P.S. & Irvine, L.M. (1977). Seaweeds of the British Isles. Volume 1. Rhodophyta. Part 1. Introduction, Nemaliales, Gigartinales. pp. [i]v-xi, [1]4-252, 90 figs. London: British Museum (Natural History).
SAG Cultures
SAG Cultures may be viewed at http://sagdb.uni-goettingen.de/showstrains.php?genus=Acrochaetium&species=alariae
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=Acrochaetium&Species=alariae
Created: 16 April 1996 by M.D. Guiry
Verified by: 23 September 2004 by M.D. Guiry
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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 24 May 2013.
Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:77162
