Anadyomene wrightii Harvey ex J.E.Gray
Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Chlorophyta
Class Ulvophyceae
Order Cladophorales
Family Anadyomenaceae
Genus Anadyomene
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Palau Islands, West Pacific. Hideki Yukihira. © Palau International Coral Reef Center. From: Ohba, H., Victor, S., Golbuu, Y. & Yukihira, H. (2007) Tropical Marine Plants of Palau. pp. 153. PICRC & JICA..

Palau Islands, West Pacific. Hideki Yukihira. © Palau International Coral Reef Center. From: Ohba, H., Victor, S., Golbuu, Y. & Yukihira, H. (2007) Tropical Marine Plants of Palau. pp. 153. PICRC & JICA..

Palau Islands, West Pacific, 0.5 m deep. Hideki Yukihira. © Palau International Coral Reef Center. From: Ohba, H., Victor, S., Golbuu, Y. & Yukihira, H. (2007) Tropical Marine Plants of Palau. pp. 153. PICRC & JICA..

Palau Islands, West Pacific, 0.5 m deep. Hideki Yukihira. © Palau International Coral Reef Center. From: Ohba, H., Victor, S., Golbuu, Y. & Yukihira, H. (2007) Tropical Marine Plants of Palau. pp. 153. PICRC & JICA..

Tanzania; detail of cell arrangement. Eurico Oliveira. © Eurico Oliveira (euricodo@usp.br). 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.

Tanzania. Katrin Østerlund. © Katrin Oesterlund (Katrin.Osterlund@uadm.uu.se). 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.

KwaZulu-Natal. Frederic Leliaert. © Frederik Leliaert (Frederik.Leliaert@ugent.be). From: De Clerck, O., Bolton, J.J., Anderson, R.J. & Coppejans, E. (2005). Guide to the seaweeds of KwaZulu-Natal. Scripta Botanica Belgica 33: 1-294. Purchase information.
Publication details
Anadyomene wrightii Harvey ex J.E.Gray 1866: 48, pl. 44: fig. 5
Original publication: Gray, J.E. (1866). On Anadyomene and Microdictyon, with the description of three new allied genera, discovered by Menzies in the Gulf of Mexico. Journal of Botany, London 4: 41-51, 65-72, Plate 44.
Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Anadyomene is Anadyomene flabellata J.V.Lamouroux.
Status of name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Synonym(s)
No synonyms are currently included in AlgaeBase.
General environment
This is a Marine species.
Distribution by country
Type information
Type locality: Ryukyuretto, Japan (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996: 756).
Detailed distribution with sources
(as Anadyomene wrightii Harvey ex J.E.Gray)
Africa: Kenya (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Bolton, Oyieke & Gwanda 2007), Madagascar (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Mauritius (Børgesen 1940), Mozambique (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Somalia (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), South Africa (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Coppejans, Leliaert & Verbruggen 2005), Tanzania (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Oliveira, Österlund & Mtolera 2005).
Indian Ocean Islands: Aldabra Islands (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Cargados Carajos (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Chagos Archipelago (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Maldives (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Réunion (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Saya de Malha Bank (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Seychelles (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996).
Asia: China (Tseng 1984, Titlyanov et al. 2011), Japan (Okamura 1936, Segawa 1981, Yoshida, Nakajima & Nakata 1990, Yoshida 1998), Taiwan (Huang 2000, Anon. 2012).
South-east Asia: Indonesia (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Philippines (Silva, Meñez & Moe 1987), Singapore (Pham et al. 2011), Vietnam (Pham-Hoàng 1969, Abbott, Fisher & McDermid 2002, Tsutsui et al. 2005, Tien 2007, Titlyanov et al. 2011).
Australia and New Zealand: Western Australia (Huisman et al. 2009).
Pacific Islands: Federated States of Micronesia (Lobban & Tsuda 2003, Tsuda 2006), Hawaiian Islands (Abbott & Huisman, 2004), Mariana Islands (Tsuda 2003), Republic of Palau (Ohba et al 2007).
Key references
Abbott, I.A., Fisher, J. & McDermid, K.J. (2002). Newly reported and revised marine algae from the vicinity of Nha Trang, Vietnam. In: Taxonomy of Economic Seaweeds with reference to some Pacific species. Vol. VIII. (Abbott, I.A. & Mcdermid, K.J. Eds) Vol. 8, pp. 291-321. Oceanographic Institute, Nha Trang, Vietnam: California Sea Grant College.
Ding, L. & Luan, R. (2013). Flora algarum marinarum sinicarum Tomus IV Chlorophyta No. I Ulotrichales Chaetophorales, Phaeophilales Ulvales Acrosiphoniales. pp. [i]-xxi, 1-173, pls I-VI. Beijing: Science Press.
Huisman, J.M., Leliaert, F., Verbruggen, H & Townsend, R.A. (2009). Marine benthic plants of Western Australia's shelf-edge atolls. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 77: 50-87, 14 figs.
Okamura, K. (1908). Icones of Japanese Algae. Vol. I pp. 179-208, pls. XXXVI-XL. Tokyo: The Author.
SAG Cultures
SAG Cultures may be viewed at http://sagdb.uni-goettingen.de/showstrains.php?genus=Anadyomene&species=wrightii
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=Anadyomene&Species=wrightii
Created: 08 March 1998 by M.D. Guiry
Verified by: 20 May 2013 by M.D. Guiry
Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 1352 times since it was created.
References
(Please note: only references with the binomials in the title are included. The information is from the Literature database.)
Enomoto, S. & Hirose, H. (1970). On the life-history of Anadyomene wrightii with special reference to the reproduction, development, and cytological sequences. Botanical Magazine, Tokyo 83: 270-280.
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Citing AlgaeBase
Cite this record as:
M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2013.
AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org; searched on 19 June 2013.
Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:74056






