Sargassum assimile Harvey
Publication details
Sargassum assimile Harvey 1859: 328
Original publication: Harvey, W.H. (1859). Algae. Part III. Flora Tasmaniae. In: The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. discovery ships Erebus and Terror, in the years 1839-1843, under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross...Part III. Flora Tasmaniae. Monocotyledones and Acotyledones. (Hooker, J.D. Eds) Vol. II, pp. 282-343. London: Lovell Reeve.
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Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Sargassum is Sargassum bacciferum (Turner) C.Agardh.
Status of name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Infrageneric classification
Subgenus Sargassum Section Zygocarpicae
Synonym(s)
No synonyms are currently included in AlgaeBase.
General environment
This is a marine species.
Distribution by country
Type information
Type locality: "Loo Choo" (Ryukyu-retto, Japan) (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996: 659). Type: TCD (Yoshida 1998: 377). Notes: Type locality found by Dawson (1959b: 7) considered to be an error for "Lemma Island" [Li-ma Ch'ün-tao], near Hong Kong. Yoshida (1988: 10) notes that the type locality was originally described as "Loo Choo" but that Dawson (1959) pointed out that this was an error and that the correct locality was Lemma Island, near Hong Kong. Yoshida (1988: 6) cites Hong Kong as the type locality. Tseng & Lu (1988: 30) cite Ryukyus, Japan as the type locality.
Detailed distribution with sources
(as Sargassum assimile Harvey)
Asia: China (Tseng 1984, Phillips 1995, Tseng & Lu 2000), Hong Kong (Setchell 1931, Yoshida 1988, Tseng & Lu 1988), Japan (Okamura 1936, Yoshida, Nakajima & Nakata 1990, Phillips 1995, Yoshida 1998), Taiwan (Anon. 2012).
South-east Asia: Singapore (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Pham et al. 2011), Vietnam (Pham-Hoàng 1969, Dai 2007).
Key references
Ajisaka, T., Noro, T. & Yoshida, T. (1995). Zygocarpic Sargassum species (subgenus Sargassum) from Japan. In: Taxonomy of Economic Seaweeds. (Abbott, I.A. Eds) Vol.5, pp. 11-44. La Jolla, California: California Sea Grant College System.
De Toni, G.B. (1895). Sylloge algarum omnium hucusque cognitarum. Vol. III. Fucoideae. Vol. 3 pp. [i]-xvi, [1]-638. Patavii [Padua]: Sumptibus auctoris.
Phillips, N. (1995). Biogeography of Sargassum (Phaeophyta) in the Pacific basin. In: Taxonomy of Economic Seaweeds. (Abbott, I.A. Eds) Vol.5, pp. 107-145. La Jolla, California: California Sea Grant College System.
Tseng, C.K. & Lu, B. (1988). Studies on Chinese species of zygocarpic Sargassum. In: Taxonomy of economic seaweeds with reference to some Pacific and Caribbean species. (Abbott, I.A. Eds) Vol.2, pp. 23-54. La Jolla: California Sea Grant College Program.
Tseng, C.K. & Lu, B. (1988). Studies on Chinese species of zygocarpic Sargassum. In: Taxonomy of economic seaweeds with reference to some Pacific and Caribbean species. (Abbott, I.A. Eds) Vol.2, pp. 23-54. La Jolla: California Sea Grant College Program.
Yoshida, T. (1988). Japanese and Taiwanese species of Sargassum subgenus Sargassum. In: Taxonomy of Economic Seaweeds. (Abbott, I.A. Eds) Vol.2, pp. 5-21.
SAG Cultures
SAG Cultures may be viewed at http://sagdb.uni-goettingen.de/showstrains.php?genus=Sargassum&species=assimile
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=Sargassum&Species=assimile
Created: 15 March 1998 by M.D. Guiry
Verified by: 15 August 2012 by Michael Guiry
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Citing AlgaeBase
Cite this record as:
Michael Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2013.
AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org; searched on 18 May 2013.
Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:73672
