Acrochaetium daviesii (Dillwyn) Nägeli
Publication details
Acrochaetium daviesii (Dillwyn) Nägeli 1862: 405, 412
Original publication: Nägeli, C. (1862 '1861'). Beiträge zur morphologie und systematik der Ceramiaceae. Sitzungsberichte der Königlichen Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu München 1861(2): 297-415, 30 figs, 1 pl.
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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 currently regarded as a taxonomic synonym of Colaconema daviesii (Dillwyn) Stegenga
Basionym
Conferva daviesii Dillwyn
Type information
Lectotype locality: probably north Wales (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996: 97). Lectotype: BM (Womersley 1994: 52). Notes: This type locality was first described by Dixon & L.Irvine (1977b: 90) (Silva et al., 1996). According to Womersley (1994: 52) the type material is from Ireland or Wales (Swansea) (see Woelkerling, 1973b: 552, 594; Dixon & Irvine, 1977b: 90).
Synonym(s)
No synonyms are currently included in AlgaeBase.
General environment
This is a marine species.
Distribution by country
Detailed distribution with sources
(as Acrochaetium daviesii (Dillwyn) Nägeli)
Ireland: Down (Morton 1974), Wexford (Norton 1970).
Europe: Adriatic (Giaccone 1978, Ercegovic 1980), Britain (Newton 1931), Bulgaria (Dimitrova-Konaklieva 1981), Corsica (Boudouresque & Perret 1977, Coppejans 1979), France (Feldmann 1939, Feldmann 1954, Coppejans 1995, Verlaque 2001, Anon. 2012), Greece (Gerloff & Geissler 1974, Diapoulis, Haritonidis & Koussouris 1986), Helgoland (Bartsch & Kuhlenkamp 2000), Ireland (Norton 1970, Morton 1974), Italy (Giaccone 1969, Cinelli et al. 1976), Netherlands (Stegenga & Mol 1983), Portugal (Ardré 1970), Romania (Caraus 2002), Spain (Miranda 1931, Rodriguez Prieto & Polo Alberti 1988, Pérez-Ruzafa 1990, Granja, Cremades & Barbara 1992, Valenzuela Miranda 2002), Sweden (Kylin 1944), Turkey (Europe) (Cirik, Zeybeck, Aysel & Cirik 1990, Taskin et al. 2008).
Atlantic Islands: Canary Islands (Price, John & Lawson 1986, Haroun et al. 2002, Gil-Rodríguez et al. 2003, John et al. 2004, Anon 2011), Madeira (Levring 1974, Neto, Cravo & Haroun 2001, John et al. 2004), Tristan da Cunha (Baardseth 1941).
North America: California (Abbott & Hollenberg 1976, Silva 1979), Maine (Taylor 1957), Mexico (Dawson 1953), New Jersey (Taylor 1957), Rhode Island (Taylor 1957), Virginia (Humm 1979).
Central America: Islas Revillagigedo (Taylor 1945).
Caribbean Islands: Cuba (Suárez 2005), Hispaniola (Taylor 1960, Betancourt & Herrera-Moreno, 2001).
South America: Argentina (Boraso & Zaixso 2011).
Africa: Côte d'Ivoire (John, Lawson & Ameka, 2003, John et al. 2004), Gabon (John, Lawson & Ameka, 2003, John et al. 2004), Ghana (John, Lawson & Ameka, 2003, John et al. 2004), Liberia (John, Lawson & Ameka, 2003, John et al. 2004), Mauritania (John et al. 2004), Morocco (Dangeard 1949), Namibia (Rull Lluch 2002, John et al. 2004), Sierra Leone (Price, John & Lawson 1986, John, Lawson & Ameka, 2003, John et al. 2004), South Africa (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Tunisia (Ben Maiz, Boudouresque & Quahchi 1987).
South-west Asia: Turkey (Asia) (Taskin et al. 2008).
Asia: Russia (Perestenko 1980).
Australia and New Zealand: Australia (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996).
Pacific Islands: Solomon Islands (Womersley & Bailey 1970).
Antarctic and the subantarctic islands: Fuegia (Papenfuss 1964), Macquarie Island (Ricker 1987).
Taxonomic notes
Placed in Colaconema by Nielsen et al. (1995). John et al.(2004) cite Audouinella daviesii (Dillwyn) Woelk. as a synonym of this species.
Source of synonymy
Stegenga, H. (1985). The marine Acrochaetiaceae (Rhodophyta) of southern Africa. South African Journal of Botany 51: 291-330, 25 figs, 1 table.
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).
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.
Hollenberg, G.J. & Abbott, I.A. (1966). Supplement to Smith's marine algae of the Monterey Peninsula. pp. ix (xii), 1-130, 53 figs. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Lee, Y.-P. & Lee, I.K. (1988). Contribution to the generic classification of the Rhodochortaceae (Rhodophyta, Nemaliales). Botanica Marina 31: 119-131, 8 figs, 1 table.
Ott, F.D. (2009). Handbook of the taxonomic names associated with the non-marine Rhodophycophyta. pp. [i-xiii]xiv-xxiv, [1]-969, [2]. Stuttgart: J. Cramer in der Gebrüder Borntraeger Verlagsbuchhandlung.
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.
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.
SAG Cultures
SAG Cultures may be viewed at http://sagdb.uni-goettingen.de/showstrains.php?genus=Acrochaetium&species=daviesii
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=daviesii
Created: 16 April 1996 by M.D. Guiry
Verified by: 22 May 2012 by Michael 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.)
van der Velde, H. H. (1981). The growth of Acrochaetium daviesii under red, white and blue light-diffrences in pentose phosphate pathway enzymes. Proceedings of the International Seaweed Symposium 8: 254-257.
van der Velde, H.H. & Hemrika-Wagner, A.M. (1978). The detection of phytochrome in the red alga Acrochaetium daviesii. Pl. Sci. Let. 11: 145-149.
van der Velde, H.H., Guiking, P. & van der Wulp, D. (1975). Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase and 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase in Acrochaetium daviesii cultured under red, white and blue light. Zeit. Pflanzenphysiol. 76: 95-108.
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Cite this record as:
Michael Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2013.
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Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:100149
