Caulerpa ambigua Okamura

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Chlorophyta
Class Ulvophyceae
Order Bryopsidales
Family Caulerpaceae
Genus Caulerpa

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Publication details
Caulerpa ambigua Okamura 1897: 4, pl. I: figs. 3-12

Original publication: Okamura, K. (1897). On the algae from Ogasawara jima (Bonin Islands). Botanical Magazine, Tokyo 11: 1-16, Figs. A-D, plate 1.

Type species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Caulerpa is Caulerpa prolifera (Forsskål) J.V.Lamouroux.

Status of name
This name is currently regarded as a taxonomic synonym of Caulerpella ambigua (Okamura) Prud'homme van Reine & Lokhorst

Origin of species name
Adjective A (Latin), doubtful, uncertain (Stearn 1973).

Synonym(s)
No synonyms are currently included in AlgaeBase.

General environment
This is a marine species.

Type information
Type locality: Ogasawara-jima, Ogasawara-gunto [Bonin Islands, Japan] (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996: 813).

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Caulerpa ambigua Okamura)
Central America: Belize (Norris & Bucher 1982), México (Pacific) (Pedroche et al. 2005).

Caribbean Islands: Martinique (Rodríguez-Prieto, Michanek & Ivon 1999).

South America: Venezuela (Ganesan 1990).

Africa: Ghana (Lawson & John 1987), Mauritius (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Mozambique (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), South Africa (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996).

Indian Ocean Islands: Maldives (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Réunion (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Seychelles (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996).

South-west Asia: Pakistan (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996).

Asia: Japan (Okamura 1936, Segawa 1981, Yoshida, Nakajima & Nakata 1990).

South-east Asia: Philippines (Silva, Meñez & Moe 1987), Thailand (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Hodgson et al. 2004), Vietnam (Pham-Hoàng 1969, Hodgson et al. 2004, Tien 2007).

Australia and New Zealand: Lord Howe Island (Kraft 2000, Kraft 2007), Queensland (Lewis 1987, Phillips 1997, Phillips 2002, Kraft 2007, Bostock & Holland 2010).

Pacific Islands: Hawaiian Islands (Hodgson et al. 2004).

Source of synonymy
Prud'homme van Reine, W.F. & Lokhorst, G.M. (1992). Caulerpella gen. nov. a non-holocarpic member of the Caulerpales (Chlorophyta). Nova Hedwigia 54: 113-126, 13 figs, 1 table.

Key references
Lipkin, Y. & Silva, P.C. (2002). Marine algae and seagrasses of the Dahlak Archipelago, southern Red Sea. Nova Hedwigia 75: 1-90, 7 figs.

Pedroche, F.F., Silva, P.C., Aguilar-Rosas, L.E., Dreckmann, K.M. & Aguilar-Rosas, R. (2005). Catálogo de las algas marinas bentónicas del Pacífico de México. I. Chlorophycota. pp. i-viii, 17-146. Ensenada, México: Universidad Autónoma de Baja California.

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=Caulerpa&species=ambigua

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=Caulerpa&Species=ambigua

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 08 March 1998 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 23 June 2010 by Wendy Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 835 times since it was created.

Linking to this page: http://www.algaebase.org/search/species/detail/?species_id=3744

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 21 May 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: No taxonomy record found for this level.