Chaetomorpha melagonium (F.Weber & Mohr) Kützing

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Chlorophyta
Class Ulvophyceae
Order Cladophorales
Family Cladophoraceae
Genus Chaetomorpha

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Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick, Canada. Colin Bates (colinba@interchange.ubc.ca). © Coastal Imageworks (colinba@interchange.ubc.ca).

Chaetomorpha melagonium (F.Weber & Mohr) Kützing Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick, Canada

Publication details
Chaetomorpha melagonium (F.Weber & Mohr) Kützing 1845: 204

Original publication: Kützing, F.T. (1845). Phycologia germanica, d. i. Deutschlands Algen in bündigen Beschreibungen. Nebst einer Anleitung zum Untersuchen und Bestimmen dieser Gewächse für Anfänger. pp. i-x, 1-340. Nordhausen: W. Köhne.
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Type species
This is the type species (lectotype) of the genus Chaetomorpha.

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

Basionym
Conferva melagonium F.Weber & Mohr

Type information
Type locality: Varberg, Sweden (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996: 766). Type: Original illustration in the absence of material (Weber & Mohr 1804: pl. 3: fig. 2).

Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), with dark reproductive structures (Stearn 1973).

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Conferva melagonium F.Weber & Mohr 1804

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Conferva melagonium var. rupincola Areschoug
Ulva confervoides Forsskål 1775
Chaetomorpha melagonium f. rupinicola Kjellman 1883

General environment
This is a marine species.

Common names

(as Chaetomorpha melagonium (F.Weber & Mohr) Kützing)
Swedish: Grov borsttråd (Tolstoy & Österlund 2003).

Distribution by country

Point data for Ireland and Britain

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Detailed distribution with sources
(as Conferva melagonium F.Weber & Mohr)
Ireland: Dublin (Sanders 1860).

Europe: Ireland (Sanders 1860).

(as Chaetomorpha melagonium (F.Weber & Mohr) Kützing)
Arctic: Canada (Arctic) (Taylor 1957, Lee 1980), Svalbard (Fredriksen & Kile 2012).

Ireland: Antrim (Adams 1904, Guiry 1978, Morton 1994), Clare (Guiry 1978, De Valéra et al. 1979), Cork (Guiry 1978), Derry (Guiry 1978, Morton 1994), Donegal (Morton 2003), Down (Morton 1974, Guiry 1978, Morton 1994), Dublin (Guiry 1978), Galway (Guiry 1978), Kerry (Guiry 1978, Cullinane & Whelan 1983), Mayo (Cotton 1912, Guiry 1978), Waterford (Guiry 1977, Guiry 1978), Wexford (Norton 1970, Guiry 1978).

Europe: Baltic Sea (Nielsen et al. 1995), Britain (Newton 1931, Burrows 1991, Hardy & Guiry 2003, Brodie et al. 2007), Denmark (Larsen & Sand-Jensen 2006), Faroe Islands (Irvine 1982, Nielsen & Gunnarsson 2001), France (Feldmann 1954, Coppejans 1995, Dizerbo & Herpe 2007, Loiseaux-de Goër & Noailles 2008, Anon. 2012), Helgoland (Bartsch & Kuhlenkamp 2000), Ireland (Adams 1907, Cotton 1912, Guiry 1977, Guiry 1978, De Valéra et al. 1979, Burrows 1991, Morton 1994, Guiry 2012), Netherlands (Stegenga & Mol 1983), Norway (Rueness 1997), Spain (Bárbara et al. 2005), Spitsbergen (Vinogradova 1995), Sweden (Kylin 1907, Kylin 1949, Tolstoy & Österlund 2003).

Atlantic Islands: E. Greenland (Lund 1959, Pedersen 1976), Greenland (Pedersen 2011), Iceland (Caram & Jónsson 1972).

North America: Alaska (Lindstrom 1977, Scagel et al. 1989, Lindeberg & Lindstrom 2010), British Columbia (Scagel et al. 1989), Labrador (Taylor 1957), Maine (Mathieson et al. 2001), Manitoba (Saunders & Kucera 2010), New Jersey (Taylor 1957), Nova Scotia (Schmidt & Scheibling 2006, Saunders & Kucera 2010), Oregon (Hansen 1997), Quebec (Taylor 1957), Washington (Scagel et al. 1989).

South America: Chile (Ramírez & Santelices 1991).

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

Asia: Japan (Okamura 1936, Yoshida, Nakajima & Nakata 1990, Yoshida 1998), Kamchatka (Selivanova & Zhigadlova 2009, Klochkova, Korolyova & Kusidi 2009), Korea (Bae 2010).

Australia and New Zealand: New South Wales (Millar & Kraft 1994), South Australia (Womersley 1984), Western Australia (Womersley 1984).

(as Chaetomorpha melagonium f. rupinicola Kjellman)
North America: Alaska (Lindstrom 1977).

Key references
Braune, W. (2008). Meeresalgen. Ein Farbbildführer zu den verbreiteten benthischen Grün- Braun- und Rotalgen der Weltmeere. pp. [1]-596, pls 1-266 (colour photographs). Ruggell: A.R.G. Gantner Verlag.

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.

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.

Kim, H.-S., Kwon, C.-J. & Hwang, I.-K. (2010). Caldophorales. In: Algal flora of Korea. Volume 1, Number 1. Chlorophyta: Ulvophyceae: Ulotrichales, Ulvales, Cladophorales, Bryopsidales. Marine green algae. (Bae, E.H., Kim, H.-S., Kwon, C.-J., Hwang, I.-K., Kiim, G.H. & Klochkova, T.A. Eds), pp. 55-154. Incheon: National Institute of Biological Resources.

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.

Larsen, A. & Sand-Jensen, K. (2005). Salt tolerance and distribution of estuarine benthic macroalgae in the Kattegat-Baltic Sea area. Phycologia 45: 13-23.

Lindeberg, M.R. & Lindstrom, S.C. (2010). Field guide to the seaweeds of Alaska. pp. [i-]iii-iv, 1-188, numerous col. photographs. Fairbanks: Alaska Sea Grant College Program.

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

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

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

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=Chaetomorpha&Species=melagonium

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 31 March 1996 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 26 March 2012 by M.D. Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 2667 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.)

Bakker, M.E. & Lokhorst, G.M. (1985). The ultrastructure of the flagellar apparatus of the zoospore of Chaetomorpha melagonium (Web. & Mohr) Kützing (Chlorophyta). Phycologia 24: 275-288, 14 figs, 1 table.
Nicolai, E. (1957). Wall deposition in (Cladophorales). Nature, London 180: 491-493.
Novaczek, I., Lubbers, G.W. & Breeman, A.M. (1990). Thermal ecotypes of amphi-Atlantic algae .I. Algae of Arctic to cold-temperate distribution (Chaetomorpha melagonium, Devaleraea ramentacea and Phycodrys rubens). Helgoländer Meeresuntersuchungen 44: 459-474.

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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 19 May 2013.

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