Ulvella lens P.L.Crouan & H.M.Crouan

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Chlorophyta
Class Ulvophyceae
Order Ulvales
Family Ulvellaceae
Genus Ulvella

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1. Surface view of cells. 2. Habit, epiphytic on Phyllodictyon anastomosans stalk (Hainan Island, China).. 09 Mar 2012. Eduard and Tamara Titlyanova. © Eduard and Tamara Titlyanova (etitlyanov@mail.ru).

on Ulva, North of Portugal, Vilachá, 2006. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

Ulvella lens P.L.Crouan & H.M.Crouan on Ulva, North of Portugal, Vilachá, 2006

Publication details
Ulvella lens P.L.Crouan & H.M.Crouan 1859: 288, pl. 22: fig. E

Original publication: Crouan, P.L. & Crouan, H.M. (1859). Notice sur quelques espèce et genres nouveaux d'algues marines de la Rade de Brest. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Botanique, Quatrième série 12: 288-292, pls 21, 21.
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Type species
This is the type species (holotype) of the genus Ulvella.

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

Origin of species name
Noun (Latin), a lentil; a lens (Smith & Lockwood 1933).

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Phyllactidium lens (P.L.Crouan & H.M.Crouan) P.L.Crouan & H.M.Crouan 1867

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Ulvella applanata (Setchell & Gardner) G.R.South & Tittley

General environment
This is a Marine species.

Type information
Type locality: Brest, Finistère, France (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996: 726).

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Ulvella applanata (Setchell & Gardner) G.R.South & Tittley)
North America: California (Stewart 1991, Miller 2012).

(as Ulvella lens P.L.Crouan & H.M.Crouan)
Ireland: Antrim (Morton 1994), Down (Morton 1994).

Europe: Adriatic (Giaccone 1978, Ercegovic 1980, Gallardo et al. 1993), Baltic Sea (Nielsen et al. 1995), Black Sea (Gallardo et al. 1993), Britain (Batters 1902, Newton 1931, Burrows 1991, Hardy & Guiry 2003, Brodie et al. 2007), France (Feldmann 1937, Gallardo et al. 1993, Dizerbo & Herpe 2007, Anon. 2012), Helgoland (Bartsch & Kuhlenkamp 2000), Ireland (Morton 1994, Guiry 2012), Italy (Giaccone 1969, Cinelli et al. 1976, Gallardo et al. 1993, Gallardo et al. 1993, Cecere et al. 1996, Furnari, Cormaci & Serio 1999, Rindi, Sartoni & Cinelli 2002, Serio et al 2006), Malta (Cormaci et al. 1997), Norway (Rueness 1997), Portugal (Araújo et al., 2003, Bárbara et al. 2006, Araujo et al. 2009, Araújo, Bárbara & Sousa-Pinto in press), Romania (Caraus 2002, Caraus 2012), Sardinia (Gallardo et al. 1993), Spain (Ballesteros 1981, Ballesteros & Romero 1982, Boisset & Barceló 1984, Gallardo et al. 1985, Gallardo et al. 1993, Rodríguez-Prieto & Polo, L. 1996, Rodriguez-Prieto & Polo Albertí 1998, Gorostiaga et al., 2004, Bárbara et al. 2005, Bárbara et al. 2006, Peña & Bárbara 2006, Peña & Bárbara 2008, Peña & Bárbara 2010, Cires Rodriguez & Cuesta Moliner 2010), Sweden (Kylin 1907, Kylin 1949), Turkey (Europe) (Taskin et al. 2008 ), Veneto (Sfriso, A.).

Atlantic Islands: Azores (Neto 1994), Bermuda (Schneider & Searles 1998), Tristan da Cunha (Baardseth 1941).

North America: Florida (Taylor 1928, Taylor 1960, Dawes 1974, Schneider & Searles 1991, Littler, Littler & Hanisak 2008), North Carolina (Taylor 1960, Schneider & Searles 1991), South Carolina (Schneider & Searles 1991), Texas (Wynne 2009).

Central America: Baja California (Norris 2010), Belize (Norris & Bucher 1982, Littler & Littler 1997), Panama (Fernández-García et al. 2011).

Caribbean Islands: Bahamas (Ballantine & Aponte 2003), Caribbean (Littler & Littler 2000), Virgin Islands (Taylor 1960).

Western Atlantic: Trop. & Subtrop. W. Atlantic (Wynne 2011).

South America: Argentina (Boraso de Zaixso 2004, Boraso & Zaixso 2011), Brazil (Moura 2010), Chile (Hoffmann & Santelices 1997), Venezuela (Ganesan 1990).

Africa: Angola (John et al. 2004), Egypt (Aleem 1993), Libya (Gallardo et al. 1993), Mauritania (John et al. 2004), Morocco (Benhissoune, Boudouresque & Verlaque 2001), Namibia (Rull Lluch & Gómez Garreta 2001, Rull Lluch 2002, John et al. 2004).

Indian Ocean Islands: Maldives (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996).

South-west Asia: India (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Sahoo et al. 2001), Pakistan (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Turkey (Asia) (Taskin et al. 2008 ).

Asia: China (Titlyanov et al. 2011, Titlyanov & Titlyanov 2012), Japan (Yoshida, Nakajima & Nakata 1990, Yoshida 1998), Kamchatka (Klochkova, Korolyova & Kusidi 2009).

South-east Asia: Vietnam (Pham-Hoàng 1969, Tien 2007).

Australia and New Zealand: Lord Howe Island (Kraft 2000, Kraft 2007), Western Australia (Huisman & Borowitzka 2003).

Pacific Islands: Federated States of Micronesia (Lobban & Tsuda 2003), Hawaiian Islands (Abbott & Huisman, 2004).

Key references
Brodie, J., Maggs, C.A. & John, D.M. (2007). Green seaweeds of Britain and Ireland. pp. [i-v], vi-xii, 1-242, 101 figs. London: British Phycological Society.

Burova, O.V., Tsarenko, P.M., Kovalenko, O.V., Mikhailyuk, T.I., Petlovany, O.A., Lilitska, G.G. & Bilous, O.P. (2011). Ulvophyceae. In: Algae of Ukraine: diversity, nomenclature, taxonomy, ecology and geography. Volume 3: Chlorophyta. (Tsarenko, P.M., Wasser, S.P. & Nevo, E. Eds), pp. 20-61. Ruggell: A.R.A. Gantner Verlag K.-G.

Burrows, E.M. (1991). Seaweeds of the British Isles. Volume 2. Chlorophyta. pp. [i]-xi, [1]-238, 60 figs, 9 pls. London: Natural History Museum Publications.

Dawes, C.J. & Mathieson, A.C. (2008). The seaweeds of Florida. pp. [i]- viii, [1]-591, [592], pls I-LI. Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida.

Ding, L. & Luan, R. (2013). Flora algarum marinarum sinicarum Tomus IV Chlorophyta No. I Ulotrichales Chaetophorales, Phaeophilales Ulvales Acrosiphoniales. pp. [i]-xxi, 1-173, pls I-VI. Beijing: Science Press.

Klochkova, N.G., Korolyova, T.N. & Kusidi, A.E. (2009). [Atlas of algae-macrophytes Kamchatka waters. Vol 1. Green algae and brown algae]. pp. 1-216. Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky: KamchatNIRO Press.

Kraft, G.T. (2007). Algae of Australia. Marine benthic algae of Lord Howe Island and the southern Great Barrier Reef, 1. Green algae. pp. [i-iv], v-vi, 1-347, 110 text-figs; 11 pls. Canberra & Melbourne: Australian Biological Resources Study & CSIRO Publishing.

Nielsen, R., Petersen, G., Seberg, O., Daugbjerg, N., O'Kelly, C.J. & Wysor, B. (2013). Revision of the genus Ulvella (Ulvellaceae, Ulvophyceae) based on morphology and tufA gene sequences of species in culture, with Acrochaete and Pringsheimiella placed in synonymy. Phycologia 52(1): 37-56.

Norris, J.N. (2010). Marine algae of the Northern Gulf of California: Chlorophyta and Phaeophyceae. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 94: i-x, 1-276.

Sfriso, A. (2011). Chlorophyta multicellulari e fanerogame acquatiche. Ambiente di transizione italiani e litorali adiacenti. pp. [1]-318, pls 1-94. Bologna: Arpa Emilia-Romagna.

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.

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

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=Ulvella&Species=lens

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 27 April 1996 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 10 May 2013 by M.D. Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 2460 times since it was created.

References
(Please note: only references with the binomials in the title are included. The information is from the Literature database.)

Dangeard, P. (1931). L'Ulvella lens de Crouan et l'Ulvella setchellii sp. nov. Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France 78: 312-318.
Nielsen, R. (1977). Culture studies on Ulvella lens and Ulvella setchellii. British Phycological Journal 12: 1-5, 22 figs.
Notoya, M. (1983). Note on Ulvella lens Crouan frat.. Sci Rep Aquaculture Cen Aomori Pref 2: 6-12.

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