Halimeda opuntia (Linnaeus) J.V.Lamouroux

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Chlorophyta
Class Ulvophyceae
Order Bryopsidales
Family Halimedaceae
Genus Halimeda

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Palau Islands, West Pacific. Hideo Ohba. © 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, 4 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, 1 m deep. Hideo Ohba. © Palau International Coral Reef Center. From: Ohba, H., Victor, S., Golbuu, Y. & Yukihira, H. (2007) Tropical Marine Plants of Palau. pp. 153. PICRC & JICA..

1. Fragment. Plant in aquarium, My Hoa, Vietnam.. 29 Feb 2012. Eduard and Tamara Titlyanova (etitlyanov@mail.ru). © Eduard and Tamara Titlyanova (etitlyanov@mail.ru).

Hawaii; scale is 5 mm. 15 Aug 2011. J.M. Huisman. © J.M. Huisman. From: Huisman JM, Abbott IA, Smith CM (2007). Hawaiian reef plants. University of Hawaii Sea Grant College Program, Honolulu. 264 p. Available from Seagrant, University of Hawai'i.

Browse Island, Australia. 25 May 2011. John Huisman.

Cassini Island, north Kimberley, Western Australia. 25 May 2011. John Huisman. © John Huisman (j.huisman@murdoch.edu.au).

Bonaire, Caribbean. 26 Mar 2011. Mat Vestjens & Anne Frijsinger. © Mat Vestjens & Anne Frijsinger (annenmat@natuurlijkmooi.net).

Marsha Shagra, Red Sea. 26 Mar 2011. Mat Vestjens & Anne Frijsinger. © Mat Vestjens & Anne Frijsinger (annenmat@natuurlijkmooi.net).

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Halimeda opuntia (Linnaeus) J.V.Lamouroux Browse Island, Australia

Publication details
Halimeda opuntia (Linnaeus) J.V.Lamouroux 1816: 308

Original publication: Lamouroux, J.V.F. (1816). Histoire des polypiers coralligènes flexibles, vulgairement nommés zoophytes. pp. [i]-lxxxiv, chart, [1]-560, [560, err], pls I-XIX, uncol. by author. Caen: De l'imprimerie de F. Poisson.
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Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Halimeda is Halimeda tuna (J.Ellis & Solander) J.V.Lamouroux.

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

Basionym
Corallina opuntia Linnaeus

Type information
Lectotype locality: Jamaica (Hillis-Colinvaux 1980: 111). Notes: See Hillis (1959: 361) for further information on the lectotype locality of this species.

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Halimeda opuntia f. typica (Linnaeus) J.Agardh
Halimeda opuntia var. typica
Corallina opuntia Linnaeus 1758

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Halimeda opuntia var. triloba (Decaisne) Barton
Flabellaria multicaulis Lamarck 1813
Halimeda multicaulis (Lamarck) J.V.Lamouroux 1816
Fucus prolifer M.Blanco 1837
Halimeda triloba Decaisne 1842
Halimeda opuntia f. triloba (Decaisne) J.Agardh 1887
Halimeda cordata J.Agardh 1887
Halimeda opuntia f. cordata (J.Agardh) E.S.Barton 1901

General environment
This is a Marine species.

Distribution by country

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Halimeda opuntia var. typica )
North America: Florida (Taylor 1928).

(as Halimeda opuntia (Linnaeus) J.V.Lamouroux)
Europe: Greece (Gerloff & Geissler 1974).

North America: Florida (Taylor 1928, Taylor 1928, Taylor 1960, Dawes 1974, Collado-Vides et al 2005, Kooistra & Verbruggen 2005, Lam & Zechman 2006), Isla Guadalupe (Setchell & Gardner 1930), Mexico (Taylor 1960).

Central America: Belize (Taylor 1960, Norris & Bucher 1982, Littler & Littler 1997), Costa Rica (Taylor 1960), Honduras (Kooistra & Verbruggen 2005), Islas Revillagigedo (Taylor 1945), México (Pacific) (Pedroche et al. 2005), Panama (Taylor 1960, Taylor 1960, Wysor & Kooistra 2003, Kooistra & Verbruggen 2005), Veracruz (State) (Robinson, Galicia-García & Okolodkov 2012).

Caribbean Islands: Bahamas (Taylor 1960, Taylor 1969), Barbados (Taylor 1960), Caicos Islands (Taylor 1960), Caribbean (Littler & Littler 2000), Cayman Islands (Taylor 1960), Cuba (Taylor 1960, Suárez 2005, Jover Capote & Lake Barragán 2008), Hispaniola (Taylor 1960), Jamaica (Taylor 1960, Kooistra & Verbruggen 2005), Lesser Antilles (Taylor 1960, Taylor 1969), Martinique (Rodríguez-Prieto, Michanek & Ivon 1999), Netherlands Antilles (Taylor 1960), Puerto Rico (Taylor 1960), Trinidad & Tobago (Taylor 1960, Richardson 1975, Duncan & Lee Lum 2006), Virgin Islands (Taylor 1960).

Western Atlantic: Trop. & Subtrop. W. Atlantic (Wynne 2011).

South America: Aves (Taylor 1960), Brazil (Taylor 1930, Taylor 1960, Oliveira Filho 1977, Kooistra & Verbruggen 2005, Moura 2010), Colombia (Taylor 1960, Kooistra & Verbruggen 2005), Venezuela (Taylor 1960, Ganesan 1990).

Africa: Djibouti (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Eritrea (Lipkin & Silva 2002, Ateweberhan & Prud'homme van Reine 2005), Kenya (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Bolton, Oyieke & Gwanda 2007), Madagascar (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Mauritius (Børgesen 1940, Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Mozambique (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Somalia (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Tanzania (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Oliveira, Österlund & Mtolera 2005, Kooistra & Verbruggen 2005).

South-west Asia: Bangladesh (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), India (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Sahoo et al. 2001), Sri Lanka (Børgesen 1936, Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Coppejans et al. 2009).

Asia: China (Dong & Tseng 1980, Titlyanov et al. 2011 ), Japan (Okamura 1936, Segawa 1981, Yoshida, Nakajima & Nakata 1990, Yoshida 1998), Taiwan (Anon. 2012, Anon. 2012).

South-east Asia: Indonesia (Verheij & Prud'homme van Reine 1993, Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Malaysia (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Myanmar (Burma) (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Philippines (Silva, Meñez & Moe 1987, Kooistra & Verbruggen 2005), Singapore (Teo & Wee 1983, Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Pham et al. 2011), Thailand (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Tsutsui et al. 2012), Vietnam (Pham-Hoàng 1969, Abbott, Fisher & McDermid 2002, Tsutsui et al. 2005, Tien 2007, Titlyanov et al. 2011, Titlyanov & Titlyanov 2012).

Australia and New Zealand: Papua New Guinea (Coppejans et al. 2001), Queensland (Lewis 1987, Cribb 1996, Phillips 1997, Phillips 2002, Kooistra & Verbruggen 2005, Kraft 2007, Bostock & Holland 2010), Western Australia (Huisman et al. 2009).

Pacific Islands: American Samoa (Skelton et al. 2004), Federated States of Micronesia (Lobban & Tsuda 2003, Tsuda 2006, Tsuda 2006), Fiji (N'Yeurt, South & Keats 1996, South & Skelton 2003, Littler & Littler 2003), French Polynesia (Payri, N'Yeurt & Orempuller 2000, Kooistra & Verbruggen 2005), Guam (Kooistra & Verbruggen 2005), Hawaiian Islands (Magruder & Hunt 1979, Abbott & Huisman, 2004, Huisman, Abbott & Smith 2007), Mariana Islands (Tsuda 2003), Marshall Islands (Taylor 1950), Republic of Palau (Ohba et al 2007), Samoan Archipelago (Skelton & South 1999), Solomon Islands (Womersley & Bailey 1970), Wallis & Futuna Is. (Kooistra & Verbruggen 2005).

(as Halimeda opuntia f. triloba (Decaisne) J.Agardh)
Central America: Belize (Littler & Littler 1997), Panama (Wysor & Kooistra 2003).

Caribbean Islands: Caribbean (Littler & Littler 2000), Cuba (Cabrera, Moreira & Suárez 2004, Suárez 2005).

Western Atlantic: Trop. & Subtrop. W. Atlantic (Wynne 2011).

South-west Asia: Sri Lanka (Børgesen 1936).

Asia: China (Tseng 1984).

South-east Asia: Indonesia (Verheij & Prud'homme van Reine 1993).

Pacific Islands: Marshall Islands (Taylor 1950).

(as Halimeda opuntia f. cordata (J.Agardh) E.S.Barton)
Caribbean Islands: Cuba (Suárez 2005).

Western Atlantic: Trop. & Subtrop. W. Atlantic (Wynne 2011).

Asia: Japan (Okamura 1936).

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.

Dong, M.L. & Tseng, C.K. (1980). Studies on some marine green algae from the Xisha Islands, Guangdong Province, China. II. Studia Marina Sinica 17: 1-10, pl. I.

Hillis-Colinvaux, L. (1980). Ecology and taxonomy of Halimeda: primary producer of coral reefs. Advances in Marine Biology 17: 1-327, 104 figs, XXXIV tables.

Huisman, J.M., Abbott, I.A., Smith, C.M. (2007). Hawaiian reef plants. pp. [1]-264, numerous colour photographs. Honolulu: A publication of the University of Hawai'i Sea Grant College Program.

Lam, D.W. & Zechman, F.W. (2006). Phylogenetic analyses of the Bryopsidales (Ulvophyceae, Chlorophyta) based on RUBISCO large subunit gene sequences. Journal of Phycology 42: 669-678.

Noble, J.M. & Kraft, G.T. (2007). Halimedaceae Halimeda. In: Algae of Australia. Marine benthic algae of Lord Howe Island and the southern Great Barrier Reef, 1. Green algae. (Kraft, G.T. Eds), pp. 189-221. Canberra & Melbourne: Australian Biological Resources Study & CSIRO Publishing.

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.

Skelton, P.A. & South, G.R. (2007). The benthic marine algae of the Samoan Archipelago, South Pacific, with emphasis on the Apia District. Nova Hedwigia Beihefte 132: 1-350.

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.

Verbruggen, H., De Clerck, O., Cocquyt, E., Kooistra, W.H.C.F. & Coppejans, E. (2005). Morphometric taxonomy of siphonous green algae: a methodological study within the genus Halimeda (Bryopsidales). Journal of Phycology 41: 126-139.

Yamada, Y. (1941). [On the species of Halimeda from Micronesia]. Kagaku Nanyõ 4: 108-121, 15 figs.

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

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=Halimeda&Species=opuntia

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Created: 09 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.)

Carpenter, B.G., Rogers, D.J., Gibbs, R., Carabot, A., Andrade, E. & Medina, G. (1990). A novel lectin from the green alga Halimeda opuntia. British Phycological Journal 25: 85.
Kooistra, W.H.C.F. & Verbruggen, H. (2005). Genetic patterns in the calcified tropical seaweeds Halimeda opuntia, H. distorta, H. hederacea and H. minima (Bryopsidales, Chlorophyta) provide insights in species boundaries and interoceanic dispersal. Journal of Phycology 41: 177-187.
Stark, L.M., Almodovar, L. & Krauss, R.W. (1969). Factors affecting the rate of calcification in Halimeda opuntia (L.) Lamouroux and Halimeda discoidea Decaisne. Journal of Phycology 5: 305-312.

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