Caulerpa webbiana f. tomentella (Harvey ex J.Agardh) Weber-van Bosse

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

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Publication details
Caulerpa webbiana f. tomentella (Harvey ex J.Agardh) Weber-van Bosse 1898: 270-271, pl. XXI: fig. 4

Original publication: Weber-van Bosse, A. (1898). Monographie des Caulerpes. Annales du Jardin Botanique de Buitenzorg 15: 243-401, Plates XX-XXXIV.

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.

Basionym
Caulerpa tomentella Harvey ex J.Agardh

Type information
Type locality: Tonga (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996: 850).

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Caulerpa tomentella Harvey ex J.Agardh 1873

General environment
This is a marine species.

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Caulerpa webbiana f. tomentella (Harvey ex J.Agardh) Weber-van Bosse)
Western Atlantic: Trop. & Subtrop. W. Atlantic (Wynne 2011).

South America: Brazil (Oliveira Filho 1977).

Africa: Kenya (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Bolton, Oyieke & Gwanda 2007), Mauritius (Børgesen 1951, Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Somalia (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Tanzania (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996).

Asia: Japan (Okamura 1936, Segawa 1981, Yoshida, Nakajima & Nakata 1990, Yoshida 1998).

South-east Asia: Spratley Islands (Hodgson et al. 2004).

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

Key references
Dawes, C.J. & Mathieson, A.C. (2008). The seaweeds of Florida. pp. [i]- viii, [1]-591, [592], pls I-LI. Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida.

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.

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

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=webbiana

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 08 March 1998 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 06 January 2008 by M.D. Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 654 times since it was created.

Linking to this page: http://www.algaebase.org/search/species/detail/?species_id=3780

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 25 May 2013.

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