Melobesia membranacea (Esper) J.V.Lamouroux

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Rhodophyta
Subphylum Eurhodophytina
Class Florideophyceae
Subclass Corallinophycidae
Order Corallinales
Family Hapalidiaceae
Subfamily Melobesioideae
Genus Melobesia

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Mirella Coppola di Canzano. © Mirella Coppola di Canzano (mirella.coppoladicanzano@fastwebnet.it). From: Bressan, G. & Babbini, L. (2003). Biodiversità marina delle coste Italiane: Corallinales del Mar Mediterraneo: guida all deteminazione. Biologia Marina Mediterranea 10(Suppl. 2): 1-237.

Melobesia membranacea (Esper) J.V.Lamouroux

Publication details
Melobesia membranacea (Esper) J.V.Lamouroux 1812: 186

Original publication: Lamouroux, J.V.F. (1812). Sur la classification des Polypiers coralligénes non entiérement pierreux. Nouveau Bulletin des Sciences par la Société Philomathique de Paris 3: 181-188.
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Type species
This is the type species (holotype) of the genus Melobesia.

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

Basionym
Corallina membranacea Esper

Type information
Type locality: West coast of France (Dawson 1960: 8). Lectotype: Esper, 1796, Corallina Tab. XII, figs 2, 3, and 4: Upper right specimen on unnumberd sheet labelled Melobesia membranacea by Lamouroux (epitype) CN sine numero (Woelkerling & Chamberlain 2007: 233). Notes: Woelkerling and Chamberlain (2007) note that the neotype of Chamberlain (1985) has to be superseded because the ICBN rules governing the selection of types have changed

Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), membranous (Stearn 1973).

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Corallina membranacea Esper 1796
Epilithon membranaceum (Esper) Heydrich 1897
Lithothamnion membranaceum (Esper) Foslie 1898

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Hapalidium roseolum Kützing 1843
Melobesia corticiformis Kützing 1849
Hapalidium roseum Kützing ex Areschoug 1852
Hapalidium coccineum P.L.Crouan & H.M.Crouan 1859
Melobesia rosea Rosanoff 1866
Hapalidium hildenbrandtioides P.L.Crouan & H.M.Crouan 1867
Lithothamnion corticiforme (Kützing) Foslie 1898
Melobesia hildenbrantioides (P.L.Crouan & H.M.Crouan) Foslie 1898
Melobesia coccinea (P.L.Crouan & H.M.Crouan) Foslie 1898
Epilithon corticiforme (Kützing) Heydrich 1908

General environment
This is a marine species.

Habitat
Occurs epiphytically on a variety of green, brown and red algae in southern Australia and has been found intertidally on rocky reefs and in tide pools and subtidally to depths of 42 m (Womersley 1996: 171).

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Melobesia membranacea (Esper) J.V.Lamouroux)
Ireland: Antrim (Morton & Chamberlain 1985, Morton 1994), Clare (De Valéra et al. 1979, Maggs 1983), Derry (Morton & Chamberlain 1985, Morton 1994), Donegal (Morton 2003), Down (Morton & Chamberlain 1985, Morton 1994), Galway (Guiry 1978, Maggs 1983), Waterford (Guiry 1978).

Europe: Adriatic (Giaccone 1978, Babbini & Bressan 1997), Balearic Islands (Piccone 1889, Rodríguez y Femenías 1889, Lemoine 1912, Ribera Siguán & Gómez Garreta 1984, Babbini & Bressan 1997), Baltic Sea (Nielsen et al. 1995), Britain (Wilks & Woelkerling 1991, Irvine & Chamberlain 1994, Hardy & Guiry 2003), Channel Islands (Wilks & Woelkerling 1991), Corsica (Boudouresque & Perret 1977, Babbini & Bressan 1997), Faroe Islands (Nielsen & Gunnarsson 2001), France (Feldmann 1939, Coppejans 1995, Babbini & Bressan 1997, Dizerbo & Herpe 2007, Anon. 2012), Greece (Athanasiadis 1987, Babbini & Bressan 1997, Tsirika & Haritonidis 2005), Helgoland (Bartsch & Kuhlenkamp 2000), Ireland (Guiry 1978, De Valéra et al. 1979, Maggs 1983, Morton 1994, Irvine & Chamberlain 1994, Guiry 2012), Italy (Cinelli et al. 1976, Babbini & Bressan 1997, Babbini & Bressan 1997, Babbini & Bressan 1997, Furnari, Cormaci & Serio 1999, Rindi, Sartoni & Cinelli 2002, Furnari et al. 2003, Furnari et al. 2003, Furnari et al. 2003, Furnari et al. 2003, Serio et al 2006), Netherlands (Stegenga & Mol 1983), Norway (Kjøsterud 1997, Rueness 1997), Portugal (Araujo et al. 2009, Araújo, Bárbara & Sousa-Pinto in press), Sardinia (Babbini & Bressan 1997, Furnari et al. 2003), Scandinavia (Athanasiadis 1996), Spain (Ballesteros 1981, Ballesteros & Romero 1982, Boisset & Barceló 1984, Gallardo et al. 1985, Rodriguez Prieto & Polo Alberti 1988, Soto & Conde 1989, Granja, Cremades & Barbara 1992, Barbara, Cremades & López Rodriguez 1992, Conde et al. 1996, Bárbara & Cremades 1996, Rodríguez-Prieto & Polo, L. 1996, Babbini & Bressan 1997, Veiga, Cremades & Bárbara 1998, Rodriguez-Prieto & Polo Albertí 1998, Peña & Bárbara 2002, Gorostiaga et al., 2004, Peña & Bárbara 2006, Peña & Bárbara 2008, Peña & Bárbara 2010, Cires Rodriguez & Cuesta Moliner 2010, Diaz Tapia et al. 2011), Turkey (Europe) (Cirik, Zeybeck, Aysel & Cirik 1990, Taskin et al. 2008 ).

Atlantic Islands: Azores (Tittley & Neto 1994, Neto 1994), Canary Islands (Gil-Rodríguez & Afonso-Carrillo 1980, Gil-Rodriguez et al. 1985, Guadalupe et al. 1995, Haroun et al. 2002, Gil-Rodríguez et al. 2003, John et al. 2004, Domínguez-Alvarez et al. 2005, Anon 2011), Cape Verde Islands (Otero-Schmitt & Sanjuan 1992, John et al. 2004, Prud'homme van Reine, Haroun & Kostermans 2005), Madeira (Neto, Cravo & Haroun 2001, John et al. 2004), Salvage Islands (John et al. 2004).

North America: Florida (Taylor 1960), Mexico (Dawson 1960), Virginia (Humm 1979).

Central America: Panama (Taylor 1960).

Caribbean Islands: Cuba (Suárez 2005), Hispaniola (Taylor 1960, Betancourt & Herrera-Moreno, 2001), Jamaica (Taylor 1960), Lesser Antilles (Taylor 1960), Martinique (Rodríguez-Prieto, Michanek & Ivon 1999), Puerto Rico (Taylor 1960), Tobago (Taylor 1960), Virgin Islands (Taylor 1960).

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

South America: Brazil (Taylor 1960, Oliveira Filho 1977), Galápagos Islands (Ruiz & Ziemmeck 2011), Venezuela (Taylor 1960, Ganesan 1990).

Africa: Algeria (Babbini & Bressan 1997), Angola (John et al. 2004), Cabinda (John et al. 2004), Egypt (Papenfuss 1968), Ethiopia (Papenfuss 1968), Madagascar (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Mauritania (John et al. 2004), Morocco (Dangeard 1949, Babbini & Bressan 1997), Namibia (Rull Lluch 2002, Rull Lluch & Gómez Garreta 2002, John et al. 2004), Senegal (John et al. 2004), South Africa (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Tunisia (Ben Maiz, Boudouresque & Quahchi 1987, Babbini & Bressan 1997).

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

South-west Asia: Levant states (Babbini & Bressan 1997), Sri Lanka (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Turkey (Asia) (Taskin et al. 2008 ), Yemen (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996).

Asia: Taiwan (Anon. 2012).

South-east Asia: Singapore (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Pham et al. 2011).

Australia and New Zealand: New Zealand (Nelson 2012), Queensland (Lewis 1984), South Australia (Wilks & Woelkerling 1991, Womersley 1996), Tasmania (Womersley 1996), Victoria (Wilks & Woelkerling 1991, Womersley 1996, Morcom et al. 2005), Western Australia (Wilks & Woelkerling 1991, Womersley 1996).

Antarctic and the subantarctic islands: Macquarie Island (Ricker 1987).

(as Epilithon membranaceum (Esper) Heydrich)
Ireland: Dublin (Lemoine 1913), Galway (Lemoine 1913), Mayo (Cotton 1912, Lemoine 1913), Wexford (Cotton 1913, Norton 1970).

Europe: Adriatic (Munda 1979, Ercegovic 1980), Balearic Islands (, Navarro & Bellón 1945), Bulgaria (Dimitrova-Konaklieva 1981), France (Feldmann 1954), Greece (Gerloff & Geissler 1974), Ireland (Cotton 1912, Cotton 1913), Italy (Giaccone 1969), Portugal (Ardré 1970), Spain (Sauvageau 1897, Hamel 1928, Miranda 1931, Seoane-Camba 1965), Sweden (Kylin 1944).

Atlantic Islands: Canary Islands (Børgesen 1929), Madeira (Levring 1974).

(as Lithothamnion membranaceum (Esper) Foslie)
Europe: Britain (Newton 1931), Sweden (Kylin 1907).

South America: Brazil (Taylor 1930).

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

Taxonomic notes
Babbini & Bressan (1997) suggest that this species is a synonym of Hydrolithon farinosum (Lamouroux) Penrose & Y.M. Chamberlain.

Nomenclatural notes
M. membranacea (Esper) Lamouroux, 1816: 315 (Silva et al. 1996: 255). - (25 Mar 2009) - Wendy Guiry

Key references
Chamberlain, Y.M. (1985). The typification of Melobesia membranacea (Esper) Lamouroux (Rhodophyta, Corallinaceae). Taxon 34: 673-677, 4 figs, 1 table.

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.

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.

Morcom, N.F., Woelkerling, W.J. & Ward, S.A. (2005). Epiphytic nongeniculate corallines found on Laurencia filiformis f. heteroclada (Rhodomelaceae, Ceramiales). Phycologia 44: 202-211.

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.

Wilks, K.M. & Woelkerling, W.J. (1991). Southern Australian species of Melobesia (Corallinaceae, Rhodophyta). Phycologia 30: 507-533, 37 figs, 2 tables.

Woelkerling, W.J. & Chamberlain, Y.M. (2007). The genus Melobesia (Hapalidiceae, Corallinales, Rhodophyta): typification update. Phycologia 46: 232-234.

Womersley, H.B.S. (1996). The marine benthic flora of southern Australia - Part IIIB - Gracilariales, Rhodymeniales, Corallinales and Bonnemaisoniales. Vol. 5 pp. 1-392, 160 figs. Canberra & Adelaide: Australian Biological Resources Study & the State Herbarium of South Australia.

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

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=Melobesia&Species=membranacea

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 17 April 1996 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 26 July 2011 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.)

Chamberlain, Y.M. (1985). The typification of Melobesia membranacea (Esper) Lamouroux (Rhodophyta, Corallinaceae). Taxon 34: 673-677, 4 figs, 1 table.

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