Caulerpa lentillifera J.Agardh

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

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1. Habit. 2. Upper subtidal (Con Dao Islands, Vietnam). 29 Feb 2012. Eduard and Tamara Titlyanova (etitlyanov@mail.ru). © Eduard and Tamara Titlyanova (etitlyanov@mail.ru).

Long Reef, Kimberley, Western Australia. 25 May 2011. John Huisman. © John Huisman (j.huisman@murdoch.edu.au).

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.

© ABC Taxa (eric.coppejans@ugent.be). From: Coppejans, E., Leliaert, F., Dargent, O., Gunasekara, R., & De Clerck, O. (2009). Sri Lankan Seaweeds Methodologies and field guide to the dominant species. Vol. 6 pp. 1-265.: ABC Taxa..

Sri Lanka. R.D.A. Gunasekara. © R.D.A. Gunasekara & Eric Coppejans (Eric.Coppejans@ugent.be).

Houtman Abrolhos, Western Australia. John Huisman. © John Huisman (j.huisman@murdoch.edu.au). From: Huisman, J.M. (2000). Marine Plants of Australia. University of Western Australia Press, Nedlands, Western Australia..

Caulerpa lentillifera J.Agardh Houtman Abrolhos, Western Australia

Publication details
Caulerpa lentillifera J.Agardh 1837: 173

Original publication: Agardh, J.G. (1837). Novae species algarum, quas in itinere ad oras maris rubri collegit Eduardus Rüppell; cum observationibus nonnullis in species rariores antea cognitas. Museum Senckenbergianum 2: 169-174.
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Type species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Caulerpa is Caulerpa prolifera (Forsskål) J.V.Lamouroux.

Status of name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Ahnfeldtia lentillifera (J.Agardh) Trevisan 1849
Chauvinia lentillifera (J.Agardh) Kützing 1849

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Chauvinia microphysa Kützing 1863
Caulerpa kilneri J.Agardh 1873
Caulerpa lentillifera var. kilneri (J.Agardh) Weber-van Bosse 1898
Caulerpa lentillifera var. longistipitata Weber-van Bosse 1901
Caulerpa longistipitata (Weber-van Bosse) Svedelius 1906

General environment
This is a Marine species.

Usage notes
Edible alga (Saito et al. 2010). - (8 Sep 2010) - Wendy Guiry

Distribution by country

Type information
Type locality: coast of Eritrea, southern Red Sea (Lipkin & Silva 2002: 63). Type: Rüpell; Herb. Agardh, LD 16851 (Lipkin & Silva 2002: 63). Notes: (see Womersley & Bailey, 1970: 275).

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Caulerpa lentillifera J.Agardh)
Africa: Egypt (Papenfuss 1968), Eritrea (Lipkin & Silva 2002, Ateweberhan & Prud'homme van Reine 2005), Ethiopia (Papenfuss 1968), Kenya (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Bolton, Oyieke & Gwanda 2007), Madagascar (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Mauritius (Børgesen 1949, Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Mozambique (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Somalia (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), South Africa (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Tanzania (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Oliveira, Österlund & Mtolera 2005).

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

South-west Asia: India (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Sahoo et al. 2001), Pakistan (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Saudi Arabia (Papenfuss 1968), Sri Lanka (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Coppejans et al. 2009).

Asia: Japan (Yoshida, Nakajima & Nakata 1990, Yoshida 1998).

South-east Asia: Indonesia (Verheij & Prud'homme van Reine 1993, Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Malaysia (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Philippines (Silva, Meñez & Moe 1987), Singapore (Teo & Wee 1983, Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Pham et al. 2011), Thailand (Hodgson et al. 2004, Tsutsui et al. 2012), Vietnam (Pham-Hoàng 1969, Tsutsui et al. 2005, Tien 2007, Titlyanov et al. 2011, Titlyanov & Titlyanov 2012).

Australia and New Zealand: Houtman Abrolhos (Huisman 1997), Papua New Guinea (Coppejans et al. 2001, Littler & Littler 2003), Queensland (Lewis 1987, Cribb 1996, Phillips 1997, Huisman 2000, Phillips 2002, Kraft 2007, Bostock & Holland 2010), Western Australia (Huisman 2000, Huisman & Borowitzka 2003).

Pacific Islands: Federated States of Micronesia (Lobban & Tsuda 2003, Tsuda 2006), Hawaiian Islands (Abbott & Huisman, 2004, Hodgson et al. 2004, McDermid et al. 2005), Mariana Islands (Tsuda 2003), Marshall Islands (Taylor 1950), Solomon Islands (Womersley & Bailey 1970).

(as Chauvinia microphysa Kützing)
Pacific Islands: New Caledonia (Millar & Prud'homme van Reine 2005).

(as Caulerpa lentillifera var. kilneri (J.Agardh) Weber-van Bosse)
Australia and New Zealand: Queensland (Lewis 1987).

(as Caulerpa lentillifera var. longistipitata Weber-van Bosse)
South-east Asia: Thailand (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996).

Key references
Hodgson, L.M. Pham Huu Tri, Lewmanomont, K. & McDermid, K.J. (2004). Annotated checklist of species of Caulerpa and Caulerpella (Bryopsidales, Caulerpaceae) from Vietnam, Thailand and the Hawaiian Islands. In: Taxonomy of Economic Seaweeds with reference to the Pacific and other locations Volume IX. (Abbott, I.A. & McDermid, K.J. Eds) Vol.9, pp. 21-38.

Kraft, G.T. (2007). Algae of Australia. Marine benthic algae of Lord Howe Island and the southern Great Barrier Reef, 1. Green algae. pp. [i-iv], v-vi, 1-347, 110 text-figs; 11 pls. Canberra & Melbourne: Australian Biological Resources Study & CSIRO Publishing.

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

McDermid, K.J., Stuercke, B. & Haleakala, O.J. (2005). Total dietary fiber content in Hawaiian marine algae. Botanica Marina 48: 437-440.

Millar, A.J.K. & Prud'homme van Reine, W.F. (2005). Marine benthic macroalgae collected by Vieillard from New Caledonia and described as new species by Kützing. Phycologia 44: 536-549.

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.

Titlyanov, E.A. & Titlyanov, T.V. (2012). Marine plants of the Asian Pacific Region countries, their use and cultivation. pp. [1]-376, many col. photographs. Vladivostok: Dalnauka & A.V. Zhirmunsky Institute of Marine Biology Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Zemke-White, W.L. & Ohno, M. (1999). World seaweed utilisation: an end-of-century summary. Journal of Applied Phycology 11: 369-376.

SAG Cultures
SAG Cultures may be viewed at http://sagdb.uni-goettingen.de/showstrains.php?genus=Caulerpa&species=lentillifera

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=lentillifera

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 08 March 1998 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 26 February 2013 by M.D. 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.)

Miyamura, S., Hori, T., Ohya, T., Tohma, T. & Ikawa, T. (1996). Co-localization of chloroplast DNA and ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase in the so-called pyrenoid of the siphonous green alga Caulerpa lentillifera (Caulerpales, Chlorophyta). Phycologia 35: 156-160, 4 figs, 1 table.
Saito, H., Xue, C., Yamashiro, R. Moromizato & Itabashi, Y. (2010). High polyunsaturated fatty acid levels in two subtropical macroalgae, Cladosiphon okamuranus and Caulerpa lentillifera. Journal of Phycology 46(4): 665-673.

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