Lithophyllum pustulatum (J.V.Lamouroux) Foslie

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Rhodophyta
Subphylum Eurhodophytina
Class Florideophyceae
Subclass Corallinophycidae
Order Corallinales
Family Corallinaceae
Subfamily Lithophylloideae
Genus Lithophyllum

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Hawaii; scale is 5 mm. 01 Jan 0001. 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.

Lithophyllum pustulatum (J.V.Lamouroux) Foslie Hawaii; scale is 5 mm

Publication details
Lithophyllum pustulatum (J.V.Lamouroux) Foslie 1904: 8

Original publication: Foslie, M. (1904). Algologiske notiser. Det Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskabs Skrifter 1904(2): 1-9.
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Type species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Lithophyllum is Lithophyllum incrustans Philippi.

Status of name
This name is currently regarded as a taxonomic synonym of Titanoderma pustulatum (J.V.Lamouroux) Nägeli

Basionym
Melobesia pustulata J.V.Lamouroux

Type information
Type locality: France (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996: 274). Lectotype: CN (Herb. Lamouroux) unnumbered (Womersley 1996: 229). Notes: Designated by Woelkerling, Chamberlain & Silva (1985: 325).

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

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Melobesia verrucata J.V.Lamouroux 1816
Melobesia hapalidioides P.L.Crouan & H.M.Crouan 1867
Lithophyllum hapalidioides (P.L.Crouan & H.M.Crouan) Hariot 1889
Lithothamnion adplicitum Foslie 1897
Dermatolithon hapalidiodes (P.L.Crouan & H.M.Crouan) Foslie 1898
Melobesia caspica Foslie 1899
Litholepis caspica (Foslie) Foslie 1905
Lithophyllum adplicitum (Foslie) L.Newton 1931
Dermatolithon caspica (Foslie) Zaberzhinskaya ex A.D.Zinova 1967
Tenarea caspica (Foslie) Adey 1970
Tenarea hapalidioides (P.L.Crouan& H.M.Crouan) Adey & P.J.Adey 1973
Titanoderma hapalidioides (P.L.Crouan & H.M.Crouan) J.H.Price et al. 1986
Titanoderma caspicum (Foslie) Woelkerling 1986

General environment
This is a Marine species.

Habitat
Found in intertidal rocky pools and at depths of 0-5 m on rock, sponges, abalone shells, snails, and on various brown and red algae including Ecklonia, Hormosira, Scaberia, Callophyllis and Pterocladia (Woelkerling & Campbell 1992: 82).

Distribution by country

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Lithophyllum hapalidioides (P.L.Crouan & H.M.Crouan) Hariot)
Ireland: Galway (Lemoine 1913), Mayo (Cotton 1912, Lemoine 1913).

Europe: Britain (Newton 1931), France (Feldmann 1939), Ireland (Cotton 1912).

Africa: Morocco (Dangeard 1949).

(as Dermatolithon hapalidiodes (P.L.Crouan & H.M.Crouan) Foslie)
Ireland: Clare (De Valéra et al. 1979), Dublin (Guiry 1978).

Europe: Adriatic (Giaccone 1978), Corsica (Boudouresque & Perret 1977), Faroe Islands (Irvine 1982), France (Feldmann 1954), Greece (Gerloff & Geissler 1974), Ireland (Guiry 1978, De Valéra et al. 1979), Italy (Giaccone 1969, Feoli & Bressan 1972, Cinelli et al. 1976), Spain (Ballesteros 1981, Ballesteros & Romero 1982, Boisset & Barceló 1984).

Atlantic Islands: Canary Islands (Gil-Rodríguez & Afonso-Carrillo 1980), Madeira (Levring 1974).

Antarctic and the subantarctic islands: Fuegia (Papenfuss 1964).

(as Lithophyllum pustulatum (J.V.Lamouroux) Foslie)
Ireland: Cork (Cullinane 1971), Mayo (Cotton 1912, Lemoine 1913), Wexford (Cotton 1913).

Europe: Baltic Sea (Nielsen et al. 1995), Britain (Newton 1931), France (Feldmann 1939, Anon. 2012), Ireland (Cotton 1912, Cotton 1913, Newton 1931, Cullinane 1971), Italy (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, Serio et al 2006), Malta (Cormaci et al. 1997), Romania (Caraus 2012), Sardinia (Furnari et al. 2003), Spain (Valenzuela Miranda 2002), Sweden (Kylin 1944).

Atlantic Islands: Bermuda (Taylor 1960), Canary Islands (John et al. 2004), Cape Verde Islands (John et al. 2004, Prud'homme van Reine, Haroun & Kostermans 2005), Iceland (Caram & Jónsson 1972), Madeira (Neto, Cravo & Haroun 2001, John et al. 2004), Salvage Islands (John et al. 2004).

North America: Florida (Taylor 1960), North Carolina (Taylor 1960).

Central America: Belize (Littler & Littler 1997), Costa Rica (Taylor 1960), Panama (Taylor 1960).

Caribbean Islands: Bahamas (Taylor 1960), Barbados (Taylor 1960), Hispaniola (Taylor 1960, Betancourt & Herrera-Moreno, 2001), Jamaica (Taylor 1960), Lesser Antilles (Taylor 1960), Virgin Islands (Taylor 1960).

South America: Brazil (Taylor 1960, Creed et al. 2010), Chile (Ramírez & Santelices 1991), Colombia (Taylor 1960), Galápagos Islands (Ruiz & Ziemmeck 2011).

Africa: Mauritania (John et al. 2004), Morocco (Dangeard 1949).

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

South-east Asia: Indonesia (Atmadja & Prud'homme van Reine 2012).

Australia and New Zealand: New South Wales (Woelkerling & Campbell 1992, Millar & Kraft 1993, Womersley 1996 ), New Zealand (Nelson 2012), Norfolk Island (Millar 1999), Queensland (Ringeltaube & Harvey 2000, Phillips 2002), South Australia (Woelkerling & Campbell 1992, Womersley 1996), Tasmania (Woelkerling & Campbell 1992, Womersley 1996), Victoria (Woelkerling & Campbell 1992, Womersley 1996), Western Australia (Woelkerling & Campbell 1992, Womersley 1996).

Pacific Islands: Fiji (N'Yeurt, South & Keats 1996).

(as Lithophyllum adplicitum (Foslie) L.Newton)
Europe: Britain (Newton 1931).

(as Titanoderma hapalidioides (P.L.Crouan & H.M.Crouan) J.H.Price et al.)
Europe: Greece (Athanasiadis 1987), Spain (Rodriguez Prieto & Polo Alberti 1988, Soto & Conde 1989, Conde et al. 1996).

Taxonomic notes
A number of varieties are recognised by Irvine & Chamberlain (1994). Woelkerling & Campbell (1992) include Titanoderma in Lithophyllum but the genus is maintained by Irvine & Chamberlain (1994, p. 89). John et al. (2004) cite Dermatolithon hapalidioides (P. Crouan & H. Crouan Foslie, Dermatolithon nephalidioides (P. Crouan & H. Crouan) Foslie, Dermatolithon pustulatum (J.V. Lamour.) Foslie, Lithophyllum hapalidioides (P. Crouan & H. Crouan) Foslie var. confinis (P. Crouan & H. Crouan) Foslie, Melobesia pustulatum J.V. Lamour, Titanoderma confine (P. Crouan & H. Crouan) J.H. Price , D.M. John & G.W. Lawson and Titanoderma pustulatum (J.V. Lamour.) Woelk. et al. as synonyms of this species. According to Womersley (1996: 227), Titanoderma pustulata (Lamouroux) Nägeli 1858 is a synonym of Lithophyllum pustulatum.

Key references
Chamberlain, Y.M. & Irvine, L.M. (1994). Lithophylloideae Setchell. In: Seaweeds of the British Isles...Volume 1. Rhodophyta. Part 2B. Corallinales, Hildenbrandiales. (Irvine, L.M. & Chamberlain, Y.M. Eds), pp. 58-112. London: HMSO.

Chamberlain, Y.M., Irvine, L.M. & Walker, R. (1991). A redescription of Lithophyllum orbiculatum (Rhodophyta, Corallinales) in the British Isles and a reassessment of generic delimitation in the Lithophylloideae. British Phycological Journal 26: 149-167, 43 figs, 1 table.

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.

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. & Campbell, S.J. (1992). An account of the southern Australian species of Lithophyllum (Corallinaceae, Rhodophyta). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Botany 22: 1-107, 63 figs, 13 tables, 4 maps.

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=Lithophyllum&species=pustulatum

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=Lithophyllum&Species=pustulatum

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 17 April 1996 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 03 January 2013 by M.D. Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 1622 times since it was created.

References
(Please note: only references with the binomials in the title are included. The information is from the Literature database.)

Bailey, J.C. (1999). Phylogenetic positions of Lithophyllum incrustans and Titanoderma pustulatum (Corallinaceae, Rhodophyta) based on 18S rRNA gene sequence analyses, with a revised classification of the Lithophylloideae. Phycologia 38: 208-216, 2 figs, 4 tables.
Fredriksen, S., Sørlie, A.C. & Kjøsterud, A.-B. (1995). Titanoderma pustulatum (Lamouroux) Nägeli and Lithophyllum crouanii Foslie (corallinales, Rhodophyta): two common epiphytes on Laminaria hyperborea (Gunnerus) Foslie stipes in Norway. Sarsia 80: 41-46, 14 figs, 2 tables.

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