Sargassum trichophyllum (Kützing) Kuntze

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

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Publication details
Sargassum trichophyllum (Kützing) Kuntze 1880: 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
Carpacanthus trichophyllus Kützing

Type information
Type locality: Japan Type: L 937.71.691 (Yoshida 1998: 410).

Infrageneric classification
Subgenus Bactrophycus Section Halochloa

Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), with leaves divided into hair-like segments.

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Carpacanthus trichophyllus Kützing 1843
Sargassum scoparium var. trichophyllum (Kützing) Grunow 1915

General environment
This is a marine species.

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Sargassum trichophyllum (Kützing) Kuntze)
Asia: Japan (Tseng, Yoshida & Chiang 1985, Yoshida, Nakajima & Nakata 1990, Phillips 1995, Yoshida 1998, Stiger et al. 2004).

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
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., 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.

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

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=trichophyllum

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 15 March 1998 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 10 November 2005 by Wendy Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 527 times since it was created.

Linking to this page: http://www.algaebase.org/search/species/detail/?species_id=4125

Citing AlgaeBase
Cite this record as:
Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2013. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org; searched on 22 May 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:73628