Acrochaetium virgatulum (Harvey) Batters
Publication details
Acrochaetium virgatulum (Harvey) Batters 1902: 58
Original publication: Batters, E.A.L. (1902). A catalogue of the British marine algae. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign 40(Supplement): 1-107.
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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
Callithamnion virgatulum Harvey
Type information
Type locality: Devonshire, England (Harvey 1833: 349). Type: On Ceramium rubrum. TCD
Homotypic Synonym(s)
Callithamnion virgatulum Harvey 1833
Chantransia virgatula (Harvey) Thuret 1863
Rhodochorton virgatulum (Harvey) K.M.Drew 1928
Chromastrum virgatulum (Harvey) Papenfuss 1945
Chromastrum secundatum f. virgatulum (Harvey) Papenfuss 1945
Kylinia virgatula (Harvey) Papenfuss 1947
Audouinella virgatula (Harvey) P.S.Dixon 1976
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Acrochaetium virgatulum var. tetricum (Rosenvinge) Celan
Acrochaetium virgatulum f. luxurians (J.Agardh e Kützing) F.S.Collins
Acrochaetium virgatulum var. luxurians (J.Agardh ex Kützing) ?
Kylinia virgatula f. luxurians (J.Agardh) F.S.Collins
Callithamnion luxurians J.Agardh ex Kützing 1849
Acrochaetium luxurians (J.Agardh ex Kützing) Nägeli 1861
Chantransia luxurians (J.Agardh) Kjellman 1880
Chantransia virgatula f. farlowi Kjellman 1883
Chantransia virgatula f. luxurians (J.Agardh) Rosenvinge 1909
Acrochaetium virgatulum f. tetricum (Rosenvinge) G.Hamel 1927
General environment
This is a marine species.
Distribution by country
Point data for Ireland and Britain
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(as Acrochaetium virgatulum f. luxurians (J.Agardh e Kützing) F.S.Collins)
Europe: Britain (Newton 1931), Italy (Furnari, Cormaci & Serio 1999).
(as Acrochaetium virgatulum var. luxurians (J.Agardh ex Kützing) ?)
Europe: Adriatic (Giaccone 1978).
(as Kylinia virgatula f. luxurians (J.Agardh) F.S.Collins)
North America: Connecticut (Taylor 1957), Maine (Taylor 1957).
(as Callithamnion virgatulum Harvey)
Ireland: Dublin (Sanders 1860).
Europe: Ireland (Sanders 1860).
(as Callithamnion luxurians J.Agardh ex Kützing)
Europe: Sweden (Garbary 1987).
(as Chantransia virgatula (Harvey) Thuret)
Ireland: Antrim (Adams 1907), Mayo (Cotton 1912), Wexford (Cotton 1913).
Europe: Ireland (Adams 1907, Cotton 1912, Cotton 1913), Sweden (Kylin 1907), Turkey (Europe) (Güven & Öztig 1971).
(as Chantransia luxurians (J.Agardh) Kjellman)
Europe: Sweden (Kylin 1907).
(as Acrochaetium virgatulum (Harvey) Batters)
Ireland: Donegal (Morton 2003).
Europe: Adriatic (Giaccone 1978, Ercegovic 1980), Britain (Newton 1931, Hardy & Guiry 2003), Bulgaria (Berov et al. 2012), Faroe Islands (Irvine 1982), France (Feldmann 1939, Feldmann 1954, Ben Maiz, Boudouresque, Lauret & Riouall 1988, Verlaque 2001), Greece (Diannelidis 1953, Gerloff & Geissler 1974), Helgoland (Bartsch & Kuhlenkamp 2000), Ireland (Guiry 2012), Italy (Giaccone 1969, Cinelli et al. 1976), Portugal (Ardré 1970), Romania (Caraus 2002, Caraus 2012), Scandinavia (Athanasiadis 1996), Spain (Bárbara & Cremades 1996, Cremades, Bárbara, Granja & Veiga 1997, Veiga, Cremades & Bárbara 1998, Bárbara et al. 2005, Peña & Bárbara 2008, Cires Rodriguez & Cuesta Moliner 2010), Sweden (Kylin 1944).
Atlantic Islands: Canary Islands (Price, John & Lawson 1986), Iceland (Caram & Jónsson 1972), Salvage Islands (Price, John & Lawson 1986).
North America: Virginia (Humm 1979).
Africa: Egypt (Aleem 1993), Morocco (Dangeard 1949), Tunisia (Meñez & Mathieson 1981, Ben Maiz, Boudouresque & Quahchi 1987).
Asia: Japan (Titlyanov et al 2006), Korea (Lee & Kang 2001, Hwang & Kim 2011).
South-east Asia: Vietnam (Pham-Hoàng 1969).
(as Acrochaetium virgatulum f. tetricum (Rosenvinge) G.Hamel)
Europe: Britain (Newton 1931), Romania (Caraus 2002).
South-west Asia: Sri Lanka (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996).
(as Chromastrum virgatulum (Harvey) Papenfuss)
Europe: Bulgaria (Dimitrova-Konaklieva 1981).
Atlantic Islands: Canary Islands (Price, John & Lawson 1986).
(as Chromastrum secundatum f. virgatulum (Harvey) Papenfuss)
Europe: France (Coppejans 1995).
(as Kylinia virgatula (Harvey) Papenfuss)
Europe: Romania (Caraus 2002).
North America: Massachusetts (Taylor 1957), New Jersey (Taylor 1957).
(as Audouinella virgatula (Harvey) P.S.Dixon)
Ireland: Antrim (Morton 1994), Clare (De Valéra et al. 1979), Down (Morton 1994).
Europe: Balearic Islands (Rull Lluch, Gómez Garreta & Ribera Siguán 1987, Ballesteros 1992, Báez et al 2005a, Báez et al. 2005b), Britain (Dixon & Irvine 1977, Guiry 1997), France (Báez et al 2005a, Báez et al. 2005b, Dizerbo & Herpe 2007), Greece (Athanasiadis 1987), Ireland (Guiry 1978, De Valéra et al. 1979, Morton 1994), Italy (Furnari, Cormaci & Serio 1999, Rindi, Sartoni & Cinelli 2002, Furnari et al. 2003, Furnari et al. 2003, Furnari et al. 2003, Furnari et al. 2003, Báez et al 2005a, Báez et al. 2005b, Serio et al 2006), Spain (Ballesteros 1984, Gallardo et al. 1985, Soto & Conde 1989, Ballesteros 1990, Guillermes, Cremades & Pérez-Cirera 1994, Báez et al 2005a, Báez et al. 2005b).
Atlantic Islands: Canary Islands (Gil-Rodríguez & Afonso-Carrillo 1980, Price, John & Lawson 1986, Viera-Rodriguez et al. 1987), Salvage Islands (Audiffred & Weisscher 1984, Price, John & Lawson 1986).
Africa: Algeria (Báez et al 2005a, Báez et al. 2005b), Mauritania (Price, John & Lawson 1986), Morocco (Báez et al. 2005b), Tunisia (Báez et al 2005a, Báez et al. 2005b).
Taxonomic notes
According to Woelkerling (1973: 94) this species is a synonym of Audouinella secundata [=Acrochaetium secundatum, as Colaconema secundata (Lyngbye) Woelkerling]. On the other hand, Borsje (1973), on germinating tetraspores of an entity similar to this species in culture, obtained gametangial plants answering descriptions of Acrochaetium parvulum (Lyngbye) Naëgeli.
Key references
Caraus, I. (2002). The algae of Romania. Studii si Cercetari, Universitatea Bacau, Biologie 7: 1-694.
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.
Garbary, D.J. (1987). The Acrochaetiaceae (Rhodophyta): an annotated bibliography. Bibliotheca Phycologica 77: 1-267, 2 tables.
Hwang, I.-K. & Kim, H.-S. (2011). Algal flora of Korea. Volume 4, Number 2. Rhodophyta: Florideophyceae, Nemaliophycidae: Acrochaetiales, Colaconematales, Palmariales, Nemaliales. Nemalian red algae. pp. [1-6], 1-111, figs 1-66. Incheon: National Institute of Biological Resources.
SAG Cultures
SAG Cultures may be viewed at http://sagdb.uni-goettingen.de/showstrains.php?genus=Acrochaetium&species=virgatulum
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=virgatulum
Created: 16 April 1996 by M.D. Guiry
Verified by: 29 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.)
Boney, A.D. (1967). Spore emission, sporangium proliferation and spore germination in situ in monosporangia of Acrochaetium virgatulum. British Phycological Bulletin 3: 317-326.
Borsje, W.J. (1973). The life history of Acrochaetium virgatulum (Harv.) J. Ag. in culture. British Phycolgical Journal 8: 204-216.
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