Gloiosiphonia capillaris (Hudson) Carmichael

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Rhodophyta
Subphylum Eurhodophytina
Class Florideophyceae
Subclass Rhodymeniophycidae
Order Gigartinales
Family Gloiosiphoniaceae
Genus Gloiosiphonia

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Peter the Great Bay, Russia. 27 Mar 2012. Oksana Belous. © Oksana Belous (ksu_bio@mail.ru).

North of Galicia, Spain, 2010. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

Spain; apex with hair cells. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

Spain; cystocarps (thallus is squashed slightly to show carposporangia). Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

Spain. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

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

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

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

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

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

Gloiosiphonia capillaris (Hudson) Carmichael Spain; cystocarps (thallus is squashed slightly to show carposporangia)

Publication details
Gloiosiphonia capillaris (Hudson) Carmichael in Berkeley 1833: 45

Original publication: Berkeley, M.J. (1833). Gleanings of British algae; being an appendix to the supplement to English Botany. , pls 13-16. London: C.E. Sowerby.
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Type species
This is the type species (holotype) of the genus Gloiosiphonia.

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

Basionym
Fucus capillaris Hudson

Type information
Type locality: England Type: Apparently lost

Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), capillary, hair-like, thread-like (Stearn 1973).

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Fucus capillaris Hudson 1778

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Capillaria hudsonii Stackhouse 1809
Gigartina lubrica Lyngbye 1819
Dudresnaya lubrica (Lyngbye) Trevisan 1848
Calosiphonia californica (Farlow) J.Agardh 1899
Nemalion japonicum Yendo & Narita 1918

General environment
This is a marine species.

Common names

(as Gloiosiphonia capillaris (Hudson) Carmichael)
English: Sticky Tube Weed (Bunker et al. 2010).

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Gloiosiphonia capillaris (Hudson) Carmichael)
Ireland: Antrim (Adams 1907, Guiry 1978, Morton 1994), Cork (Guiry 1978), Donegal (Morton 2003), Down (Guiry 1978, Morton 1994), Dublin (Sanders 1860, Guiry 1978), Galway (Guiry 1978), Mayo (Cotton 1912, Guiry 1978), Wexford (Cotton 1913, Norton 1970, Guiry 1978).

Europe: Baltic Sea (Nielsen et al. 1995), Britain (Newton 1931, Irvine 1983, Hardy & Guiry 2003), France (Feldmann 1954, Dizerbo & Herpe 2007, Loiseaux-de Goër & Noailles 2008, Anon. 2012), Helgoland (Bartsch & Kuhlenkamp 2000), Ireland (Adams 1907, Cotton 1912, Cotton 1913, Guiry 1978, Irvine 1983, Morton 1994, Guiry 2012), Italy (Furnari et al. 2003, Furnari et al. 2003), Netherlands (Stegenga & Mol 1983), Norway (Rueness 1997), Portugal (Ardré 1970, Araujo et al. 2009), Scandinavia (Athanasiadis 1996), Spain (Miranda 1932, Miranda 1936, Bárbara & Cremades 1996, Cremades, Bárbara, Granja & Veiga 1997, Bárbara 2002, Valenzuela Miranda 2002, Bárbara et al. 2005, Cires Rodriguez & Cuesta Moliner 2010), Sweden (Kylin 1907, Kylin 1944).

Atlantic Islands: Iceland (Munda 1979).

North America: Alaska (Lindstrom 1977, Scagel et al. 1989), British Columbia (Scagel et al. 1989), Maine (Mathieson et al. 2001), New Hampshire (Mathieson & Hehre 1986), Oregon (Hansen 1997), Washington (Scagel et al. 1989).

Asia: China (Tseng 1984, Yin, Hu & Tseng 207), Japan (Okamura 1936, Segawa 1981, Yoshida, Nakajima & Nakata 1990, Yoshida 1998), Korea (Lee & Kang 2001, Lee 2008), Russia (Perestenko 1980, Kozhenkova 2009).

Nomenclatural notes
Furnari et al. (2003) cite the authority for this species as (Hudson) Carmichael ex Berkely.

Key references
Funk, G. (1955). Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Meeresalgen von Neapel: Zugleich mikrophotographischer Atlas. Pubblicazioni della Stazione Zoologica di Napoli 25(Suppl.): i-x , 1- 178, 36 figs.

Loiseaux-de Goër, S. & Noailles, M.-C. (2008). Algues de Roscoff. pp. [1]-215, col. figs. Roscoff: Editions de la Station Biologique de Roscoff.

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

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=Gloiosiphonia&Species=capillaris

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 13 May 1996 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 25 July 2011 by M.D. Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 2711 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.)

Edelstein, T. & McLachlan, J. (1971). Further observations on Gloiosiphonia capillaris (Hudson) Carmichael in culture. Phycologia 10: 215-219.
Edelstein, T. (1970). The life history of Gloiosiphonia capillaris (Hudson) Carmichael. Phycologia 9: 55-59.
Landsborough, D. (1844). On the fructification of Gloiosiphonia capillaris. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 1 14: 240-241.
Morohoshi, H. & Masuda, M. (1980). The life history of Gloiosiphonia capillaris (Hudson) Carmichael (Rhodophyceae, Cryptonemiales). Japanese Journal of Phycology 28: 81-91.

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Citing AlgaeBase
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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 May 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:77102