Sargassum horneri (Turner) C.Agardh

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Chromista
Phylum Ochrophyta
Class Phaeophyceae
Order Fucales
Family Sargassaceae
Genus Sargassum

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Fragment of young plant (Qingdao, Yellow Sea, China). Insert: plantlet.. 09 Mar 2012. Eduard and Tamara Titlyanova. © Eduard and Tamara Titlyanova (etitlyanov@mail.ru).

Sargassum horneri (Turner) C.Agardh Fragment of young plant (Qingdao, Yellow Sea, China). Insert: plantlet.

Publication details
Sargassum horneri (Turner) C.Agardh 1820: 38

Original publication: Agardh, C.A. (1820 '1821'). Species algarum rite cognitae, cum synonymis, differentiis specificis et descriptionibus succinctis. Volumen primum. Pars prima. pp. [i-iv], [1]-168. Lundae [Lund]: ex officina Berlingiana.
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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.

Basionym
Fucus horneri Turner

Type information
Type locality: "In the Strais of Corea. Dr. Horner." (Turner 1807-1808: 34). Type: BM-K (Yoshida 1998: 387).

Infrageneric classification
Subgenus Bactrophycus Section Spongocarpus

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Fucus horneri Turner 1808
Spongocarpus horneri (Turner) Kützing 1843

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Sargassum horneri var. densum C.Agardh 1820
Sargassum filicinum Harvey 1860
Sargassum horneri f. furcatodentatum Kuntze 1880
Sargassum spathulatum J.Agardh 1889
Sargassum horneri var. spathulatum (J.Agardh) Okamura 1902

General environment
This is a Marine species.

Distribution by country

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Sargassum horneri (Turner) C.Agardh)
North America: California (Miller 2012), Mexico (Hernández Almeida & Siqueiros Beltrones 2012 ).

Asia: China (Tseng 1984, Tseng, Yoshida & Chiang 1985, Phillips 1995, Tseng & Lu 2000, Zeng 2009, Titlyanov & Titlyanov 2012, Wang 2012), Hong Kong (Setchell 1931), Japan (Okamura 1936, Segawa 1981, Tseng, Yoshida & Chiang 1985, Yoshida, Nakajima & Nakata 1990, Phillips 1995, Yoshida 1998, Stiger et al. 2000, Yoshida, Stiger, Ajisaka & Noro 2002, Stiger et al. 2004, Yoshida et al. 2004, Terasaki et al. 2009), Korea (Lee & Yoo 1992, Phillips 1995, Lee & Kang 2001, Lee 2008, Oak 2010, Lee et al. 2011), South Korea (Cho et al. 2012), Taiwan (Tseng, Yoshida & Chiang 1985, Anon. 2012, Anon. 2012).

South-east Asia: Vietnam (Pham-Hoàng 1969, Yoshida, Huu Dai, Ajisaka & Noro 2002).

(as Sargassum filicinum Harvey)
North America: Baja California Sur (Pacific) (Riosmena-Rodriguez et al. 2012), California (Miller et al. 2007).

Central America: México (Pacific) (Pedroche et al. 2008).

Asia: Japan (Okamura 1936, Segawa 1981, Tseng, Yoshida & Chiang 1985, Yoshida, Nakajima & Nakata 1990, Phillips 1995, Yoshida 1998, Stiger et al. 2000, Yoshida, Stiger, Ajisaka & Noro 2002, Stiger et al. 2004), Korea (Lee & Yoo 1992, Phillips 1995, Lee & Kang 2001, Oak 2010), South Korea (Riosmena-Rodriguez et al. 2012, Cho et al. 2012).

South-east Asia: Philippines (Silva, Meñez & Moe 1987, Phillips 1995).

(as Sargassum horneri f. furcatodentatum Kuntze)
Asia: Japan (Okamura 1936).

Source of synonymy
Stiger, V., Horiguchi, T., Yoshida, T., Coleman, A.W. & Masuda, M. (2003). Phylogenetic relationships within the genus Sargassum (Fucales, Phaeophyceae), inferred from it ITS nrDNA, with an emphasis on the taxonomic revision of the genus. Phycological Research 51(1): 1-10.

Key references
Boo, S.M. & Ko, Y.D. (2012). Marine plants from Korea. pp. [1] 5-233, many col. photographs. Seoul: Marine & Extreme Genome Research Centre Program.

Cho, G.Y, Rousseau, F., Reviers, B. de & Boo, S.M. (2006). Phylogenetic relationships within the Fucales (Phaeophyceae) assessed by the photosystem I coding psaA sequences. Phycologia 45: 512-519.

Cho, S.M., Lee, S.M., Ko, Y.D., Mattio, L. & Boo, S.M. (2012). Molecular systematic reassessment of Sargassum (Fucales, Phaeophyceae) in Korea using four gene regions. Botanica Marina 55(5): 473-484.

De Toni, G.B. (1895). Sylloge algarum omnium hucusque cognitarum. Vol. III. Fucoideae. Vol. 3 pp. [i]-xvi, [1]-638. Patavii [Padua]: Sumptibus auctoris.

Lee, K. & Yoo, S.-A. (1992). Korean species of Sargassum subgenus Bactrophycus J. Agardh (Sargassaceae, Fucales). In: Taxonomy of Economic Seaweeds. (Abbott, I.A. Eds) Vol.3, pp. 139-147. La Jolla, California: California Sea Grant College.

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.

Stiger, V., Horiguchi, T., Yoshida, T., Coleman, A.W. & Masuda, M. (2000). Phylogenetic relationships of Sargassum (Sargassaceae, Phaeophyceae) with reference to a taxonomic revision of the section Phyllocystae based on ITS-2 nrDNA sequences. Phycological Research 48: 251-260.

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.

Tseng, C.K., Yoshida, T. & Chiang, Y.M. (1985). East Asiatic species of Sargassum subgenus Bactrophycus J.Agardh (Sargassaceae, Fucales), with keys to the sections and species. In: Taxonomy of Economic Seaweeds with reference to some Pacific and Caribbean species. (Abbott, I.A. & Norris, J.N. Eds) Vol.I, pp. 1-14. California Sea Grant Program.

Yoshida, G., Murase, N., Arai, S. & Terawaki, T. (2004). Ecotypic differentiation in maturation seasonality among Sargassum horneri (Fucales, Phaeophyta) populations in Hiroshima Bay, Seto Inland Sea, Japan. Phycologia 43: 703-710.

Yoshida, T., Nguyen Huu Dai, Ajisaka, T. & Noro, T. (2002). Verification of Sargassum species identified with subgenera Bactrophycus, Phyllotrichia and Schizophycus in Vietnam. In: Taxonomy of Economic Seaweeds with reference to some Pacific species. Vol. VIII. (Abbott, I.A. & Mcdermid, K.J. Eds) Vol.8, pp. 95-102. La Jolla: California Sea Grant College.

Yoshida, T., Stiger, V., Ajisaka, T. & Noro, T. (2002). A molecular study of section-level classification of Sargassum subgenus Bactrophycus (Sargassaceae, Phaeophyta). In: Taxonomy of Economic Seaweeds with reference to some Pacific species. Vol. VIII. (Abbott, I.A. & McDermid, K.J. Eds) Vol.8, pp. 89-94. La Jolla: California Sea Grant College.

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

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=horneri

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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.)

Choi, H.G., Lee, K.H., Yoo, H.I., Kang, P.J., Kim, Y.S. & Nam, K.W. (2009). Physiological differences in the growth of Sargassum horneri between the germling and adult stages. Proceedings of the International Seaweed Symposium 19: 279-285, 4 figs, 1 table.
Honda, M. & Okuda, T. (1989). Egg liberation, germling development and seasonal changes in photosynthetic rates of autumnal Sargassum horneri. Japanese Journal of Phycology 37: 46-52.
Kunieda, H. & Suto, S. (1940). On the fertilization in Sargassum Horneri Ag.. Japanese Journal of Botany 11: 141-146, Plates I, II.
Ogawa, H. (1986). Combined effects of temperature and salinity on the early development of marine algae II. Rhizoid development of Sargassum horneri (Turner) C. Agardh.. Japanese Journal of Phycology 34: 137-141.
Uchida, T. (1993). The life cycle of Sargassum horneri (Phaeophyta) in laboratory culture. Journal of Phycology 29: 231 -235, 21 figs.
Uchida, T., Arima, S., Hirata, S., Saga, N. & Tatewaki, M. (1996). Free-living cells released from thalli of Sargassum horneri (Phaeophyta) in culture. Botanica Marina 39: 269-272.
Umezaki, I. (1984). Ecological studies of Sargassum horneri (Turner) C. Agardh in Obama Bay, Japan Sea. Bulletin of the Japanese Society of Scientific Fisheries 50: 1193-1200.
Umezaki, I. (1984). How many eggs will be discharged from the plant of Sargassum horneri?. Proceedings of the International Seaweed Symposium 11: 389-402.
Uwai, S., Kogame, K., Yoshida, G., Kawai, H., & Ajisaka, T. (2009). Geographical genetic structure and phylogeography of the Sargassum horneri/filicinum complex in Japan, based on the mitochondrial cox3 haplotype. Marine Biology, Berlin 156: 901-911.
Yamauchi, K. (1984). The formation of Sargassum beds on artificial substrata by transplanting seedlings of S. horneri (Turner) C. Agardh and S. muticum (Yendo) Fensholt. Bulletin of the Japanese Society of Scientific Fisheries 50: 1115-1123.
Yoshida, G., Murase, N., Arai, S. & Terawaki, T. (2004). Ecotypic differentiation in maturation seasonality among Sargassum horneri (Fucales, Phaeophyta) populations in Hiroshima Bay, Seto Inland Sea, Japan. Phycologia 43: 703-710.

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