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Sargassum thunbergii (Mertens ex Roth) Kuntze

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

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1. Branch fragment. 2. Fragment with vesicles and phylloids. 3. Vesicles. 4. Habit, cast ashore (Sesoko Isl., Okinawa, Japan).. 09 Mar 2012. Eduard and Tamara Titlyanova. © Eduard and Tamara Titlyanova (etitlyanov@mail.ru).

Sotogawa-cho, Choshi, Chiba Prefecture, Japan. Chiba University. Hideki Haga. © Hideki Haga (902180827@office.chiba-u.jp).

Sargassum thunbergii (Mertens ex Roth) Kuntze Sotogawa-cho, Choshi, Chiba Prefecture, Japan. Chiba University

Publication details
Sargassum thunbergii (Mertens ex Roth) Kuntze 1880: 215, 228

Original publication: Kuntze, O. (1880). Revision von Sargassum und das sogennante Sargasso-Meer. Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 1: 191-239, Plates I, II.

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 thunbergii Mertens ex Roth

Type information
Syntype localities: e Chinae et Iaponiae maribus attulit Ill. Thunberg

Infrageneric classification
Subgenus Bactrophycus Section Teretia

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Fucus thunbergii Mertens ex Roth 1800
Cystoseira thunbergii (Mertens ex Roth) C.Agardh 1820
Rhodomela thunbergii (Mertens ex Roth) C.Agardh 1824
Cystophyllum thunbergii (Mertens ex Roth) J.Agardh 1848
Myagropsis thunbergii (Mertens ex Roth) Kützing 1849
Turbinaria thunbergii (Mertens ex Roth) Yendo 1905

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Fucus swartzii Turner 1811
Fucus swartzii C.Agardh 1815
Cystoseira swartzii (C.Agardh) C.Agardh 1820
Rhodomela swartzii (C.Agardh) C.Agardh 1824
Cystophyllum swartzii (C.Agardh) J.Agardh 1848
Myagropsis swartzii (C.Agardh) Kützing 1860
Turbinaria swartzii (C.Agardh) Yendo 1905
Sargassum swartzianum Yendo 1907
Sargassum thunbergii f. latifolium Yendo 1907
Sargassum thunbergii f. nipponicum Yendo 1907
Sargassum thunbergii f. typicum Yendo 1907
Sargassum thunbergii f. swartzianum (Yendo) Okamura 1936

General environment
This is a Marine species.

Distribution by country

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Fucus thunbergii Mertens ex Roth)
Atlantic Islands: Canary Islands (Price, John & Lawson 1978).

(as Cystoseira thunbergii (Mertens ex Roth) C.Agardh)
Atlantic Islands: Canary Islands (Price, John & Lawson 1978, John et al. 2004).

(as Sargassum thunbergii (Mertens ex Roth) Kuntze)
Asia: China (Tseng 1984, Tseng, Yoshida & Chiang 1985, Phillips 1995, Tseng & Lu 2000, Zeng 2009, 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. 2004, Terasaki et al. 2009, Titlyanov & Titlyanov 2012), Korea (Lee & Yoo 1992, Phillips 1995, Lee & Kang 2001, Lee 2008, Oak 2010, Lee et al. 2011), South Korea (Cho et al. 2012), Taiwan (Anon. 2012).

(as Sargassum thunbergii f. latifolium Yendo)
Asia: Japan (Okamura 1936).

(as Sargassum thunbergii f. nipponicum Yendo)
Asia: Japan (Okamura 1936).

(as Sargassum thunbergii f. typicum Yendo)
Asia: Japan (Okamura 1936).

(as Sargassum thunbergii f. swartzianum (Yendo) Okamura)
Asia: Japan (Okamura 1936).

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, 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.

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.

Oak, J.H. (2010). Fucales. In: Algal flora of Korea. Volume 2, Number 2. Heterokontophyta: Phaeophyceae: Ishigeales, Dictyotales, Desmarestiales, Sphacelariales, Cutleriales, Ralfisales, Laminariales. (Anon. Eds), pp. 111-172. Incheon: National Institute of Biological Resources.

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. (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.

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, T. (1998). Marine algae of Japan. pp. [1-2], 1-25, 1-1222. Tokyo: Uchida Rokakuho Publishing Co., Ltd.

Yoshida, T., Stiger, V. & Horiguchi, T. (2000). Sargassum boreale sp. nov. (Fucales, Phaeophyceae) from Hokkaido, Japan. Phycological Research 48: 125-132.

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

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=thunbergii

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 15 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.)

Gao, K. & Nakahara, H. (1990). Effects of nutrients on the photosynthesis of Sargassum thunbergii. Botanica Marina 33: 375-383.
Gao, K. & Umezaki, I. (1989). Comparative studies of photosynthesis in different parts of Sargassum thunbergii. Japanese Journal of Phycology 37: 7-16.
Kim, Y.H. & Yoo, J.S. (1994). Patterns of algal succession in a Sargassum thunbergii (Phaeophyta) dominated rocky intertidal community. Korean Journal of Phycology 9(1): 59-65, 6 figs, 1 table.
Koh, C.-H., Kim, Y. & Kang, S.-G. (1993). Size distribution, growth and production of Sargassum thunbergii in an intertidal zone of Padori, west coast of Korea. Proceedings of the International Seaweed Symposium 14: 207-214.
Ohmori, T. & Miyazaki, S. (1976). An analysis of embryogeny in Sargassum thunbergii II. On the germination of embryo and the formation of rhizoid cell. Bulletin of the Japanese Society for Phycology 24: 2-24.
Ohmori, T. (1975). An analysis of embryogeny in Sargassum thunbergii I. On the degeneration of nuclei in fertilized eggs. Bulletin of the Japanese Society for Phycology 23: 93-98.
Umezaki, I. (1974). Ecological studies of Sargassum thunbergii (Mertens) O. Kuntze in Maizuru Bay, Japan Sea. Biol. Mag. Tokyo 87: 285-292.
Zhao, Z., Zhao, F., Yao, J., Lu, J., Ang Jr., P.O. & Duan, D. (2009). Early development of germlings of Sargassum thunbergii (Fucales, Phaeophyta) under laboratory conditions. Proceedings of the International Seaweed Symposium 19: 475-481, 5 figs.

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