Erythrodermis traillii (Holmes ex Batters) Guiry & Garbary
Publication details
Erythrodermis traillii (Holmes ex Batters) Guiry & Garbary 1990: 283
Original publication: Guiry, M.D. & Garbary, D.J. (1990). A preliminary phylogenetic analysis of the Phyllophoraceae, Gigartinaceae and Petrocelidaceae (Rhodophyta) in the North Atlantic and the North Pacific. In: Evolutionary Biogeography of the Marine Algae of the North Atlantic. (Garbary, D.J. & South, G.R. Eds), pp. 265-290. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
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Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Erythrodermis is Erythrodermis allenii Batters.
Status of name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Basionym
Phyllophora traillii Holmes ex Batters
Type information
Type locality: Berwick, Northumberland, England (Dixon & Irvine 1977: 226). Lectotype: E. Batters; 27 January 1887; BM 4th specimen from left on a card marked 'Cystocarps' (Newroth & Taylor 1971: 95, fig 2).
Homotypic Synonym(s)
Phyllophora traillii Holmes ex Batters 1890
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Erythrodermis allenii Batters 1900
General environment
This is a marine species.
Description
Cartilaginous, light red fronds, to 30 mm high, with short cylindrical stipes from small discoid holdfasts. Blades flat, simple with parallel sides or dichotomously divided, sometimes with the appearance of a midrib. Reproductive structures borne in small fringing leaflets.
Habitat
On shady rocks and pool margins, often in caves, intertidal at all levels, widely distributed.
Similar species
Rhodymenia delicatula
Distribution by country
Point data for Ireland and Britain
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(as Phyllophora traillii Holmes ex Batters)
Arctic: Alaska (Arctic) (Mathieson & Hehre 1986).
Ireland: Antrim (Hanna 1899, Guiry 1978), Clare (Guiry 1978), Cork (Guiry 1978), Down (Morton 1974, Guiry 1978), Dublin (Guiry 1978), Mayo (Cotton 1912, Guiry 1978), Waterford (Guiry 1977, Guiry 1978), Wexford (Norton 1970, Guiry 1978).
Europe: Britain (Newton 1931, Dixon & Irvine 1977), Faroe Islands (Irvine 1982), France (Feldmann 1954, Dizerbo & Herpe 2007), Ireland (Cotton 1912, Guiry 1977, Guiry 1978), Spain (Ballesteros & Romero 1982, Gallardo et al. 1985).
North America: New Hampshire (Mathieson & Hehre 1986).
(as Erythrodermis allenii Batters)
Ireland: Cork (Guiry 1978).
Europe: Britain (Newton 1931, Dixon & Irvine 1977), Ireland (Guiry 1978).
(as Erythrodermis traillii (Holmes ex Batters) Guiry & Garbary)
Ireland: Antrim (Morton 1994), Derry (Morton 1994), Down (Morton 1994).
Europe: Baltic Sea (Nielsen et al. 1995), Britain (Hardy & Guiry 2003, Hardy & Guiry 2003), Faroe Islands (Nielsen & Gunnarsson 2001), France (Coppejans 1995, Anon. 2012), Helgoland (Bartsch & Kuhlenkamp 2000), Ireland (Morton 1994, Guiry 2012), Norway (Rueness 1997), Scandinavia (Athanasiadis 1996), Spain (Gorostiaga et al., 2004).
Atlantic Islands: Azores (Neto 1994).
North America: New Brunswick (Schneider et al. 2011), Newfoundland (Schneider et al. 2011).
Key references
Maggs, C.A. (1989). Erythrodermis allenii Batters in the life history of Phyllophora traillii Holmes ex Batters (Phyllophoraceae, Rhodophyta). Phycologia 28: 305-317.
SAG Cultures
SAG Cultures may be viewed at http://sagdb.uni-goettingen.de/showstrains.php?genus=Erythrodermis&species=traillii
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=Erythrodermis&Species=traillii
Created: 13 May 1996 by M.D. Guiry
Verified by: 27 March 2005 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.)
Maggs, C.A. (1989). Erythrodermis allenii Batters in the life history of Phyllophora traillii Holmes ex Batters (Phyllophoraceae, Rhodophyta). Phycologia 28: 305-317.
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Citing AlgaeBase
Cite this record as:
Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2013.
AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org; searched on 25 May 2013.
Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:77087
