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Harveyella mirabilis (Reinsch) F.Schmitz & Reinke

Publication details
Harveyella mirabilis (Reinsch) F.Schmitz & Reinke in Reinke 1889: 28

Original publication: Reinke, J. (1889). Atlas deutscher Meeresalgen Im Auftrage des Königlich Preussischen Ministeriums für Landwirthschaft, Domänen und Forsten herausgegeben im Interesse der Fischerei von der Kommision zur wissenschaftlichen Untersuchung der deutschen Meere. Vol. 1 pp. [i-iv], 1-34, pls 1-4, 5/6, 7-11, 12/13, 14-25. Berlin: Paul Parey.
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Type species
This is the type species (holotype) of the genus Harveyella.

Status of name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.

Basionym
Choreocolax mirabilis Reinsch

Type information
Type locality: Bohusland, Sweden. (Irvine 1983: 48).HGB? Notes: Isotypes: Rabenhorst’s Algen Europa No. 1878.

Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), to be wondered at, wonderful, marvellous, extraordinary, admirable (Smith & Lockwood 1933).

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Choreocolax mirabilis Reinsch 1875

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Choreocolax albus Kuckuck 1894
Choreocolax odonthaliae Levring 1935

General environment
This is a marine species.

Habitat
On G. skottsbergii, O. floccosa, O. washingtoniensis and R. confervoides.

Distribution by country

Point data for Ireland and Britain

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Detailed distribution with sources
(as Harveyella mirabilis (Reinsch) F.Schmitz & Reinke)
Arctic: Canada (Arctic) (Lee 1980).

Ireland: Clare (De Valéra et al. 1979), Cork (Guiry 1978), Down (Morton 1994), Mayo (Cotton 1912, Guiry 1978), Wexford (Norton 1970, Guiry 1978).

Europe: Baltic Sea (Nielsen et al. 1995), Britain (Newton 1931, Irvine 1983, Hardy & Guiry 2003), Faroe Islands (Irvine 1982, Nielsen & Gunnarsson 2001), France (Feldmann 1954, Zuccarello, Moon & Goff 2004, Dizerbo & Herpe 2007, Anon. 2012), Helgoland (Bartsch & Kuhlenkamp 2000), Ireland (Cotton 1912, Guiry 1978, De Valéra et al. 1979, Irvine 1983, Morton 1994, Guiry 2012), Norway (Rueness 1997), Scandinavia (Athanasiadis 1996), Spain (López Rodriguez, M C., I. Bárbara & J. Cremades 2003, Bárbara et al. 2005), Spitsbergen (Vinogradova 1995), Sweden (Kylin 1907, Kylin 1944).

Atlantic Islands: E. Greenland (Lund 1959, Pedersen 1976), Greenland (Pedersen 2011).

North America: Alaska (Wynne & Heine 1992), British Columbia (Scagel et al. 1989), Maine (Mathieson et al. 2001), New Hampshire (Mathieson & Hehre 1986), Oregon (Hansen 1997, Zuccarello, Moon & Goff 2004), Washington (Scagel et al. 1989, Zuccarello, Moon & Goff 2004).

Asia: Russia (Perestenko 1994).

(as Choreocolax odonthaliae Levring)
Arctic: Canada (Arctic) (Lee 1980).

Europe: Baltic Sea (Nielsen et al. 1995).

Taxonomic notes
This species occurs on a variety of hosts in the Pacific.

Key references
Pedersen, P.M. (2011). Grønlands havalger. pp. [1] 7-208. Copenhagen: Forlaget Epsilon.DK.

Wynne, M.J. & Heine, J.N. (1992). Collections of marine red algae from St. Matthew and St. Lawrence Islands, the Bering Sea. Nova Hedwigia 55: 55-97.

Zuccarello, G.C., Moon, D. & Goff, L.J. (2004). A phylogenetic study of parasitic genera placed in the family Choreocolacaceae (Rhodophyta). Journal of Phycology 40: 937-945, 2 figs, 2 tables.

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

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=Harveyella&Species=mirabilis

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 17 April 1996 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 26 March 2012 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.)

Chemin, E. (1927). Sur le développment des spores et sur le parasitisme d'Harveyella mirabilis Schmitz et Reinke.. Compte Rendu Hebdomadaire des Séances de l’Académie des Sciences. Paris. 184: 1187.
Goff, L.J. & Cole, K. (1973). The biology of Harveyella mirabilis (Cryptonemiales, Rhodophyceae) I. Cytological investigations of Harveyella mirabilis and its host, Odonthalia floccosa. Phycologia 12: 237-245.
Goff, L.J. & Cole, K. (1975). The biology of Harveyella mirabilis (Cryptonemiales, Rhodophyceae). II. Carposporophyte development as related to the taxonomic affiliation of the parasitic red alga, Harveyella mirabilis. Phycologia 14: 227-238.
Goff, L.J. & Cole, K. (1976). The biology of Harveyella mirabilis (Cryptonemiales, Rhodophyceae). IV. Life history and phenology. Canadian Journal of Botany 54: 281-292.
Goff, L.J. & Cole, K. (1976). The biology of Harveyella mirabilis (Cryptonemiales, Rhodophyceae). III. Spore germination and subsequent development within the host Odonthalia floccosa (Ceramiales, Rhodophyceae). Canadian Journal of Botany 54: 268-280.
Goff, L.J. (1976). Solitary bodies (S-bodies) in the parasitic red alga Harveyella mirabilis (Choreocolaceae, Cryptonemiales). Protolasma 89: 189-195.
Goff, L.J. (1976). The biology of Harveyella mirabilis (Cryptonemiales, Rhodophyceae). V. Host responses to parasite infections. Journal of Phycology 12: 313-328.
Goff, L.J. (1979). The biology of Harveyella mirabilis (Cryptonemiales, Rhodophyceae). VI. Translocation of photoassimilated 14C. Journal of Phycology 15: 82-87.
Goff, L.J. (1979). The biology of Harveyella mirabilis (Cryptonemiales, Rhodophyceae). VII. Structure and proposed function of host penetrating cells. Journal of Phycology 15: 87-100.
Gunnarsson, K. & Pórisson, K. (1978). Nyjung í saeflóru íslands: Harveyella mirabilis. Náttúrufraedingurinn 48: 157-161.
López Rodriguez, M.C., Bárbara Criado, I. & Cremades Ugarte, J. (2003). Morfología y distribución de Choreocolax polysiphoniae y Harveyella mirabilis (Gigartinales, Rhodophyta), dos parásitos marinos en la Península Ibérica. Anales Jardín Botánico de Madrid 60(1): 213-215.
Peyrière, M. (1976). Étude infrastructurale du plastidome de deux Rhodophycées parasites Harveyella mirabilis (Reinsch) Schmitz et Reinke et Holmsella pachyderma (Reinsch) Sturch. Compte Rendu Hebdomadaire des Séances de l’Académie des Sciences. Paris. Série D 283: 1169-1171.
Peyrière, M. (1981). Jonctions cellulaires et synapses des Rhodophycées Floridées. Études de deux Choreocolacées parasites, Harveyella mirabilis et Holmsella pachyderma. Cryptogamie, Algologie 2: 85-104.
Sturch, H.H. (1899). Harveyella mirabilis (Schmitz and Reinke). Annals of Botany 13: 83-101.
Sturch, H.H. (1924). On the life-history of Harveyella pachyderma and H. mirabilis. Annals of Botany 38: 27-42.

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M.D. 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 June 2013.

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