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Phyllophora sicula (Kützing) Guiry & L.M.Irvine

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

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Lourido, A Coruña, Galicia, Spain, 2008. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

microscope, Lourido, A Coruña, Galicia, Spain, 2008; TS thallus. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

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Phyllophora sicula (Kützing) Guiry & L.M.Irvine Lourido, A Coruña, Galicia, Spain, 2008

Publication details
Phyllophora sicula (Kützing) Guiry & L.M.Irvine 1976: 284

Original publication: Guiry, M.D. & Irvine, L.M. (1976). A first record of the red alga Phyllophora sicula (Kützing) comb. nov. (P. palmettoides J. Agardh) from Ireland. Irish Naturalists' Journal 18: 284.
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Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Phyllophora is Phyllophora crispa (Hudson) P.S.Dixon.

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

Basionym
Phyllotylus siculus Kützing

Type information
Type locality: Sicily, Italy (Dixon & Irvine 1977: 225). Lectotype: L 941.183.58 (Dixon & Irvine 1977: 225). Notes: See also Guiry & Irvine (1976: 284).

Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), of Sicily (Stearn 1973).

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Phyllotylus siculus Kützing 1847

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Coccotylus brodiei var. simplex (Greville) Ruprecht
Fucus membranifolius var. roseus Turner 1809
Chondrus brodiei var. simplex Greville 1830
Phyllophora palmettoides J.Agardh 1849
Phyllotylus palmettoides (J.Agardh) Thuret 1863
Gymnogongrus palmettoides (J.Agardh) Ardissone 1893

General environment
This is a marine species.

Common names

(as Phyllophora sicula (Kützing) Guiry & L.M.Irvine)
English: Hand Leaf Bearer (Bunker et al. 2010).

Distribution by country

Point data for Ireland and Britain

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Detailed distribution with sources
(as Phyllophora palmettoides J.Agardh)
Ireland: Dublin (Adams 1908).

Europe: Adriatic (Munda 1979), Britain (Newton 1931), France (Feldmann 1954), Greece (Gerloff & Geissler 1974), Ireland (Adams 1908), Italy (Giaccone 1969).

(as Gymnogongrus palmettoides (J.Agardh) Ardissone)
Europe: Balearic Islands (Mazza 1902), Turkey (Europe) (Taskin et al. 2008 ).

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

(as Phyllophora sicula (Kützing) Guiry & L.M.Irvine)
Ireland: Clare (Guiry, Cullinane & Whelan 1979), Cork (Guiry & Irvine 1976, Dixon & Irvine 1977, Guiry 1978), Donegal (Morton 2003).

Europe: Adriatic (Giaccone 1978), Britain (Dixon & Irvine 1977, Hardy & Guiry 2003), France (Dizerbo & Herpe 2007, Klein & Verlaque 2011 , Anon. 2012), Greece (Athanasiadis 1987), Ireland (Guiry 1978, Hardy & Guiry 2003, Guiry 2012), Italy (Furnari, Cormaci & Serio 1999, Furnari et al. 2003, Furnari et al. 2003, Furnari et al. 2003), Portugal (Araujo et al. 2009), Sardinia (Furnari et al. 2003), Spain (Ballesteros & Romero 1982, Gallardo et al. 1985, Conde et al. 1996, Bárbara & Cremades 1996, Veiga, Cremades & Bárbara 1998, Bárbara et al., 2003, Bárbara et al. 2005, Sánchez et al 2005, Martínez-Gil et al. 2007, Díaz et al 2008, Esteban et al. 2009, Cires Rodriguez & Cuesta Moliner 2010, Diaz Tapia et al. 2011, Bárbara et al. 2012).

Atlantic Islands: Azores (Tittley & Neto 2005).

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

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.

Dixon, P.S. & Irvine, L.M. (1977). Seaweeds of the British Isles. Volume 1. Rhodophyta. Part 1. Introduction, Nemaliales, Gigartinales. pp. [i]v-xi, [1]4-252, 90 figs. London: British Museum (Natural History).

Klein, J.C. & Verlaque, M. (2011). Macroalgae newly recorded, rare or introduced to the French Mediterranean coast. Cryptogamie Algologie 31(2): 111-130.

Sánchez, I., Fernández, C. & Arrontes, J. (2005). Long-term changes in the structure of intertidal assemblages following invasion by Sargassum muticum (Phaeophyta). Journal of Phycology 41: 942-949.

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

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=Phyllophora&Species=sicula

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 13 May 1996 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 20 September 2012 by Wendy Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 1721 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.)

Guiry, M.D. & Irvine, L.M. (1976). A first record of the red alga Phyllophora sicula (Kützing) comb. nov. (P. palmettoides J. Agardh) from Ireland. Irish Naturalists' Journal 18: 284.

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Citing AlgaeBase
Cite this record as:
Wendy 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 24 May 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:77085

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