Cladophora rupestris (Linnaeus) Kützing

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Subkingdom Viridaeplantae
Phylum Chlorophycophyta
Class Ulvophyceae
Order Cladophorales
Family Cladophoraceae
Genus Cladophora

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Spanish Point, Co. Clare, Ireland; lower intertidal on Corallina. 04 Aug 2004. Michael Guiry. © Michael Guiry.

Spanish Point, Co. Clare, Ireland; lower intertidal rocks. 04 Aug 2004. Michael Guiry. © Michael Guiry.

Spiddal, Co. Galway, Ireland; rocks at MTL. 18 Apr 2002. Michael Guiry. © Michael Guiry.

Cladophora rupestris, Spanish Point, Co. Clare, Ireland. 28 Aug 2010. M.D. Guiry. © M.D. Guiry.

Cladophora rupestris, Spanish Point, Co. Clare, Ireland. 28 Aug 2010. M.D. Guiry. © M.D. Guiry.

Cladophora rupestris (Linnaeus) Kützing Spanish Point, Co. Clare, Ireland; lower intertidal rocks

Publication details
Cladophora rupestris (Linnaeus) Kützing 1843: 270

Original publication: Kützing, F.T. (1843). Phycologia generalis oder Anatomie, Physiologie und Systemkunde der Tange... Mit 80 farbig gedruckten Tafeln, gezeichnet und gravirt vom Verfasser. pp. [part 1]: [i]-xxxii, [1]-142 , [part 2:] 143-458, 1, err.], pls 1-80. Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus.
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Type species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Cladophora is Cladophora oligoclona (Kützing) Kützing.

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

Basionym
Conferva rupestris Linnaeus

Type information
Type locality: Habitat in Europeae marinis rupibus copioissima [Bognor Regis, Sussex, England] (Linnaeus 1753: 1167). Lectotype: OXF herb. Dillenius (Hoek 1969: 19, 64). Notes: Herb. Dillenius as Conferva marina trichodes ramosior Dillenius, 1741, upper specimen and lower left-hand specimen of the herbarium sheet.

Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), rocky, rock-dwelling (Stearn 1973).

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Conferva rupestris Linnaeus 1753
Ceramium rupestre (Linnaeus) de Lamarck & De Candolle 1805
Annulina rupestris (Linnaeus) Link 1820
Chloronitum rupestre (Linnaeus) Gallion 1828

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Cladophora rupestris f. mediterranea (Kützing) Ardissone
Conferva glauca Roth 1800
Conferva rupestris var. glauca (Roth) Roth 1806
Conferva nuda Harvey 1836
Cladophora opposita Kützing 1843
Cladophora plumosa Kützing 1843
Cladophora ramosissima (Draparnaud ex Kützing) Kützing 1843
Conferva ramosissima Draparnaud ex Kützing 1845
Cladophora lyngbyana Kützing 1845
Cladophora rupestris var. baltica Kützing 1845
Conferva lyngbyana (Kützing) Rabenhorst 1847
Cladophora ramossisima (Draparnaud ex Kützing) Kützing 1849
Cladophora nuda (Harvey) Harvey 1849
Cladophora rupestris var. mediterranea Kützing 1849
Cladophora bertolonii Kützing 1849
Cladophora sertularina var. adriatica Kützing 1849
Cladophora rupestris f. flaccida Suringar 1857
Cladophora rupestris f. rigida Suringar 1857
Aegagropila biformis Wittrock 1878
Cladophora rupestris f. submarina Foslie 1884
Cladophora rupestris f. contracta Simmons 1897
Cladophora rupestris f. nuda (Harvey) Holmes & Batters ex Batters 1902
Cladophora rupestris var. nuda Hamel 1925

General environment
This is a marine species.

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Cladophora rupestris f. mediterranea (Kützing) Ardissone)
Europe: Greece (Diannelidis 1953).

(as Conferva rupestris Linnaeus)
Ireland: Wexford (Tighe 1803).

Europe: Ireland (Tighe 1803).

(as Cladophora rupestris (Linnaeus) Kützing)
Ireland: Antrim (Adams 1907, Guiry 1978, Morton & Chamberlain 1985, Morton 1994), Clare (Guiry 1978, De Valéra et al. 1979, Maggs 1983), Cork (Renouf 1931, Cullinane 1971, Cullinane, McCarthy & Fletcher 1975, Guiry 1978), Derry (Guiry 1978, Morton 1994), Donegal (Guiry 1978, Morton 2003), Down (Morton 1974, Guiry 1978, Morton & Chamberlain 1985, Morton 1994), Dublin (Sanders 1860, Guiry 1978), Galway (Guiry 1978, Maggs 1983), Kerry (Guiry 1978), Leitrim (Cullinane 1970, Guiry 1978), Limerick (Cullinane 1969, Guiry 1978), Louth (Synnott 1969, Guiry 1978), Mayo (Cotton 1912, Guiry 1978), Sligo (Cullinane 1970), Waterford (Guiry 1978), Wexford (Cotton 1913, Parkes & Scannell 1969, Norton 1970, Guiry 1978).

Europe: Adriatic (Giaccone 1978, Munda 1979, Gallardo et al. 1993, Battelli 1997), Balearic Islands (Gallardo et al. 1993, Ribera, Coloreu, Rodriguez Prieto & Ballesteros 1997, Báez et al 2005a, Báez et al. 2005b), Baltic Sea (Nielsen et al. 1995), Belgium (Coppejans 1995), Black Sea (Gallardo et al. 1993), Britain (Newton 1931, Burrows 1991, Hardy & Guiry 2003, Brodie et al. 2007), Corsica (Boudouresque & Perret 1977, Gallardo et al. 1993), Denmark (Larsen & Sand-Jensen 2006, Wernberg 2006), Faroes (Irvine 1982), France (Feldmann 1954, Gallardo et al. 1993, Coppejans 1995, Leliaert & Coppejans 2004, Báez et al 2005a, Báez et al. 2005b, Dizerbo & Herpe 2007, Loiseaux-de Goër & Noailles 2008), Greece (Gerloff & Geissler 1974, Haritonidis & Tsekos 1976, Tsekos & Haritonidis 1977, Athanasiadis 1987, Gallardo et al. 1993), Helgoland (Bartsch & Kuhlenkamp 2000), Iceland (Caram & Jónsson 1972), Ireland (Adams 1907, Cotton 1912, Cotton 1913, Cullinane 1969, Cullinane 1971, Guiry 1978, De Valéra et al. 1979, Maggs 1983, Morton 1994), Italy (Giaccone 1969, Feoli & Bressan 1972, Edwards et al. 1975, Cinelli et al. 1976, Gallardo et al. 1993, Gallardo et al. 1993, Cecere et al. 1996, Furnari, Cormaci & Serio 1999, Rindi, Sartoni & Cinelli 2002, Báez et al 2005a, Báez et al. 2005b, Serio et al 2006), Netherlands (Stegenga & Mol 1983), Norway (Rueness 1997), Portugal (Ardré 1970, Burrows 1991, Araújo et al., 2003, Araujo et al. 2009, Araújo, Bárbara & Sousa-Pinto in press), Romania (Caraus 2002), Spain (Ballesteros 1981, Ballesteros & Romero 1982, Gallardo et al. 1985, Rodriguez Prieto & Polo Alberti 1988, Ballesteros 1989, Soto & Conde 1989, Gallardo et al. 1993, Flores-Moya et al. 1995, Peña & Bárbara 2002, Gorostiaga et al., 2004, Bárbara et al. 2005, Diaz-Tapia & Bárbara 2005, Báez et al 2005a, Báez et al. 2005b, Pena & Bárbara 2008 ), Sweden (Kylin 1907, Kylin 1949, Tolstoy & Österlund 2003), Turkey (Europe) (Güner, Aysel, Sukatar & Öztürk 1985, Gallardo et al. 1993, Taskin et al. 2008 ).

Atlantic Islands: Azores (Neto 1994 ), Gough Island (Chamberlain 1965).

North America: Massachusetts (Taylor 1957), New Hampshire (Mathieson & Hehre 1986), New Jersey (Taylor 1957), Newfoundland (Taylor 1957), Nova Scotia (Taylor 1957), Virginia (Humm 1979).

South America: Brazil (Joly 1957), Chile (Ramírez & Santelices 1991).

Africa: Algeria (Gallardo et al. 1993, Báez et al 2005a, Báez et al. 2005b), Morocco (Gallardo et al. 1993, Benhissoune, Boudouresque & Verlaque 2001, Benhissoune, Boudouresque & Verlaque 2001, Báez et al 2005a, Báez et al. 2005b), Senegal (John et al. 2004), Tunisia (Meñez & Mathieson 1981, Ben Maiz, Boudouresque & Quahchi 1987, Gallardo et al. 1993, Báez et al 2005a, Báez et al. 2005b).

South-west Asia: Turkey (Asia) (Taskin et al. 2008 ).

Asia: Japan (Yoshida, Nakajima & Nakata 1990, Yoshida 1998), Korea (Lee & Kang 2001).

South-east Asia: Philippines (Silva, Meñez & Moe 1987).

Australia and New Zealand: Lord Howe Island (Kraft 2000, Kraft 2007).

Antarctic and the subantarctic islands: Antarctica (Papenfuss 1964).

(as Cladophora ramossisima (Draparnaud ex Kützing) Kützing)
Africa: Egypt (Aleem 1993), Morocco (Dangeard 1949).

(as Cladophora rupestris var. mediterranea Kützing)
Europe: Romania (Caraus 2002).

(as Cladophora bertolonii Kützing)
Europe: France (Ben Maiz, Boudouresque, Lauret & Riouall 1988), Turkey (Europe) (Güven & Öztig 1971, Güner, Aysel, Sukatar & Öztürk 1985).

(as Cladophora rupestris var. nuda Hamel)
Europe: France (Feldmann 1954), Ireland (Newton 1931).

Key references
Braune, W. (2008). Meeresalgen. Ein Farbbildführer zu den verbreiteten benthischen Grün- Braun- und Rotalgen der Weltmeere. pp. [1]-596, 266 pls. 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. xi + 238, 60 figs, 9 plates. London: Natural History Museum Publications.

Hoek, C. van den & Chihara, M. (2000). A taxonomic revision of the species of Cladophora (Chlorophyta) along the coasts of Japan and the Russian Far-east. Natural Science Museum [Tokyo] Monographs 19: 1-242, 100 figs.

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.

Leliaert, F. & Coppejans, E. (2004). Crystalline cell inclusions: a new diagnostic character in the Cladophorophyceae (Chlorophyta). Phycologia 43: 189-203.

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
No records have been found on the SAG site.

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 31 March 1996 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 23 January 2009 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.)

Fisher, I. S. & Percival, E. E. (1956). Water soluble polysaccharide of Cladophora rupestris. Proceedings of the International Seaweed Symposium 2: 5-9.
Jónsson, S. & Chesnoy, L. (1971). Méiose et sporogenèse chez le Cladophora rupestris (L.) Kütz.. Compte Rendu Hebdomadaire des Séances de l’Académie des Sciences. Paris. Série D 272: 1754-1756.
Jónsson, S. & Perrot, Y. (1967). Le cycle de reproduction du Cladophora rupestris (L.) Kütz., (Cladophoracées). Compte Rendu Hebdomadaire des Séances de l’Académie des Sciences. Paris. Série D 264: 2628-2631.
Kylin, H. (1944). Zur biochemie von Cladophora rupestris. Kungliga Fysiografiska Sällskapets i Lund. Förhanlingar 14: 1-5.
Thomas, D.N., Collins, J.C. & Russell, G. (1988). Interactive effcts of temperature and salinity upon net photosynthesis of Cladophora glomerata (L.) Kütz. C. rupestris (L.) Kütz.. Botanica Marina 31: 73-77.
Wiencke, C. & Davenport, J. (1987). Respiration and photosynthesis in the intertidal alga Cladophora rupestris (L.) Kütz. under fluctuating salinity regimes. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 114: 183-197.