Gracilaria multipartita (Clemente) Harvey

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Subkingdom Biliphyta
Phylum Rhodophycophyta
Subphylum Eurhodophytina
Class Florideophyceae
Subclass Rhodymeniophycidae
Order Gracilariales
Family Gracilariaceae
Genus Gracilaria

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Spain, Galicia, A Coruña, ría de A Coruña, 2004. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara.

below Marine Hotel, Salcombe, South Devon, U.K.. Phil Smith. © Phil Smith.

Portugal, North of Viana, 2009. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara.

Gracilaria multipartita (Clemente) Harvey Portugal, North of Viana, 2009

Publication details
Gracilaria multipartita (Clemente) Harvey 1846: pl. XV

Original publication: Harvey, W.H. (1846). Phycologia Britannica, or, A history of British sea-weeds: containing coloured figures, generic and specific characters, synonymes, and descriptions of all the species of algae inhabiting the shores of the British Islands. , Plates 1-78. London: Reeve & Benham.

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Type species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Gracilaria is Gracilaria compressa (C.Agardh) Greville.

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

Basionym
Fucus multipartitus Clemente

Type information
Type locality: Andalusia (Athanasiadis 1996: 64). Type: MA

Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), divided into many parts (Stearn 1973).

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Fucus multipartitus Clemente 1807

General environment
This is a Marine species.

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Fucus multipartitus Clemente)
Europe: Spain (Roxas Clemente y Rubio 1807).

(as Gracilaria multipartita (Clemente) Harvey)
Europe: Britain (Newton 1931, Hardy & Guiry 2003), France (Gurgel et al. 2004, Dizerbo & Herpe 2007, Loiseaux-de Goër & Noailles 2008), Isla de Alborán (Conde & Flores Moya 2000), Italy (Furnari et al. 2003, Furnari et al. 2003), Portugal (Araújo et al., 2003, Araujo et al. 2009, Araújo, Bárbara & Sousa-Pinto in press), Spain (Lázaro Ibiza 1889, Sauvageau 1897, Bellón 1921, Hamel 1928, Miranda 1931, Miranda 1934, Fernández, Gutiérrez & Rico 1990, Flores-Moya et al. 1994, Conde et al. 1996, Bárbara & Cremades 1996, Peña & Bárbara 2002, Gorostiaga et al., 2004, Bárbara et al. 2005, Invernón et al. 2009).

Atlantic Islands: Canary Islands (Haroun et al. 2002, Gil-Rodríguez et al. 2003, John et al. 2004), Cape Verde Islands (John et al. 2004, Prud'homme van Reine, Haroun & Kostermans 2005), Madeira (Haroun et al. 2002).

Africa: Ghana (Lawson & John 1987, John, Lawson & Ameka, 2003, John et al. 2004), Mauritania (John et al. 2004), Senegal (John et al. 2004), Western Sahara (John et al. 2004).

Taxonomic notes
Formerly reported from the north-eastern Atlantic as Gracilaria foliifera, an Indian Ocean species that apparently does not occur in the Atlantic (Guiry & Freamhainn 1985). See, also, Steentoft & Farnham (1997). Lawson & John (1987) note that Bodard ( pers. comm.) believes that the West African plants referred to this species closely resemble the Canary Island plant identified as Gracilaria lacinulata by Børgesen (1929). Bodard (1966a) suggests that most of the Sénégal plants formerly called G. dentata should more correctly be referred to the European G. foliifera (now G. multipartita) and that some of the African and Canary plants which had been given this latter name may be a new, and as yet, undescribed species. John et a. (2004) cite Gracilaria corallicola Zanardini, G. foliifera (Forssk.) Børgesen and G. lacinulata (H. West) M. Howe as synonyms of this species. They refer to Hardy & Guiry (2003) for comments concerning the status of records of Gracilaria foliifera in the Atlantic Ocean.

Nomenclatural notes
Abbott (1995: 191) cites the authority for this species as J. Agardh.

Harvey (1846, pl. XV, expl. pl.) refers the combination to J. Agardh (Alg. med. 151, 1842) but it was not made there. - (17 Feb 2010) - M.D. Guiry

Key references
Abbott, I.A. (1995). A decade of species of Gracilaria (sensu lato). In: Taxonomy of Economic Seaweeds. (Abbott, I.A. Eds) Vol.5, pp. 185-195. La Jolla, California: California Sea Grant College System.

Guiry, M.D. & Freamhainn, M.T. (1986). Biosystematics of Gracilaria foliifera (Gigartinales, Rhodophyta). Nordic Journal of Botany 5: 629-637.

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

Steentoft, M. & Farnham, W.F. (1997). Northern distribution boundaries and thermal requirements of Gracilaria and Gracilariopsis (Gracilariales, Rhodophyta) in Atlantic Europe and Scandinavia. Nordic Journal of Botany 17: 87-93.

SAG Cultures
No records have been found on the SAG site.

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 13 May 1996 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 17 February 2010 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.)

Givernaud, T., El Gourji, A., Mouradi-Givernaud, A., Lemoine, Y. & Chiadmi, N. (1999). Seasonal variations of growth and agar composition of Gracilaria multipartita harvested along the Atlantic coast of Morocco.. Proceedings of the International Seaweed Symposium 16: 167-172.
Greig-Smith, E. (1954). Cytological observations on Gracilaria multipartita. British Phycological Bulletin 1(2): 4-5.
Polifrone M.,Viera-Rodríguez M. A, Suárez-Santana J., Lazzoz G. & Pérez-Ruzafa I. (2005). Mapas de distribución de algas marinas de la Península Ibérica e Islas Baleares. XX. Gracilaria corallicola, G. gracilis, G. multipartita y Gracilariopsis longissima (Gracilariales, Rhodophyta). Botanica Complutensis 29: 77-83.