Caulerpa racemosa var. macrophysa (Sonder ex Kützing) W.R.Taylor

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Chlorophyta
Class Ulvophyceae
Order Bryopsidales
Family Caulerpaceae
Genus Caulerpa

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Lung-tung, Taipei County, Taiwan. 1996. 5. 22. Photo by Huang Su-fang, National Taiwan Museum, from http://www.ntm.gov.tw/seaweeds.. 22 May 1996. Huang Su-fang. © Sue Huang (sfhuang@ntm.gov.tw).

Lung-tung, Taipei County, Taiwan. 1996. 5. 22. Photo by Huang Su-fang, National Taiwan Museum, from http://www.ntm.gov.tw/seaweeds.. 22 May 1996. Huang Su-fang. © Sue Huang (sfhuang@ntm.gov.tw).

Caulerpa racemosa var. macrophysa (Sonder ex Kützing) W.R.Taylor Lung-tung, Taipei County, Taiwan. 1996. 5. 22. Photo by Huang Su-fang, National Taiwan Museum, from http://www.ntm.gov.tw/seaweeds.

Publication details
Caulerpa racemosa var. macrophysa (Sonder ex Kützing) W.R.Taylor 1928: 101

Original publication: Taylor, W.R. (1928). The marine algae of Florida with special reference to the Dry Tortugas. Publications of the Carnegie Institution of Washington 379: [i-] v, [1]- 219, 3 figs, 7 tables, 37 plates.

Type species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Caulerpa is Caulerpa prolifera (Forsskål) J.V.Lamouroux.

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

Basionym
Chauvinia macrophysa Sonder ex Kützing

Type information
Type locality: Central America, Eastern Pacific (Verlque, Durand ,Huisman, Boudouresque & Le Parco 2003: 329).

Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), with flowers borne in racemes.

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Chauvinia macrophysa Sonder ex Kützing 1857
Caulerpa macrophysa (Sonder ex Kützing) G.Murray 1887
Caulerpa racemosa var. [clavifera] f. macrophysa (Sonder ex Kützing) Weber-van Bosse 1898
Caulerpa clavifera f. macrophysa (Sonder ex Kützing) Svedelius 1906
Caulerpa racemosa f. macrophysa (Sonder ex Kützing) Svedelius 1906

General environment
This is a marine species.

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Caulerpa macrophysa (Sonder ex Kützing) G.Murray)
North America: Texas (Wynne 2009).

Central America: Panama (Fernández-García et al. 2011).

Caribbean Islands: Caribbean (Littler & Littler 2000).

Western Atlantic: Trop. & Subtrop. W. Atlantic (Wynne 2011).

South America: Brazil (Moura 2010 ).

Africa: Kenya (Bolton, Oyieke & Gwanda 2007).

South-east Asia: Singapore (Pham et al. 2011), Thailand (Hodgson et al. 2004), Vietnam (Hodgson et al. 2004).

Pacific Islands: Federated States of Micronesia (Lobban & N'Yeurt 2006), Fiji (Littler & Littler 2003), Hawaiian Islands (Abbott & Huisman, 2004, Hodgson et al. 2004, Huisman, Abbott & Smith 2007).

(as Caulerpa racemosa var. [clavifera] f. macrophysa (Sonder ex Kützing) Weber-van Bosse)
North America: Isla Guadalupe (Setchell & Gardner 1930).

Asia: Japan (Okamura 1936, Segawa 1981), Taiwan (Huang 2000).

South-east Asia: Vietnam (Tsutsui et al. 2005).

(as Caulerpa racemosa f. macrophysa (Sonder ex Kützing) Svedelius)
South-west Asia: Sri Lanka (Coppejans et al. 2009).

South-east Asia: Thailand (Coppejans et al. 2011).

(as Caulerpa racemosa var. macrophysa (Sonder ex Kützing) W.R.Taylor)
North America: Florida (Famà, Wysor, Kooistra & Zuccarello 2002).

Central America: México (Pacific) (Pedroche et al. 2005), Panama (Famà, Wysor, Kooistra & Zuccarello 2002, Wysor & Kooistra 2003).

Caribbean Islands: Cuba (Suárez 2005).

South America: Brazil (Joly 1965, Oliveira Filho 1977), Venezuela (Ganesan 1990).

Africa: Kenya (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Mozambique (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), South Africa (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Tanzania (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996).

Indian Ocean Islands: Maldives (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Nicobar Islands (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Seychelles (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996).

South-west Asia: India (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Sahoo et al. 2001), Iran (Sohrabi pour, J. & Rabii, R., 1996, Sohrabipour & Rabii 1999), Sri Lanka (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Yemen (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996).

Asia: Japan (Yoshida, Nakajima & Nakata 1990, Yoshida 1998, Verlque, Durand ,Huisman, Boudouresque & Le Parco 2003), Taiwan (Verlque, Durand ,Huisman, Boudouresque & Le Parco 2003, Anon. 2012).

South-east Asia: Indonesia (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Philippines (Silva, Meñez & Moe 1987), Singapore (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Thailand (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Tsutsui et al. 2012), Vietnam (Abbott, Fisher & McDermid 2002, Tien 2007).

Pacific Islands: Fiji (N'Yeurt, South & Keats 1996, South & Skelton 2003), Marshall Islands (Taylor 1950), Solomon Islands (Womersley & Bailey 1970).

Source of synonymy
Silva, P.C. (1996-to date). Index Nominum Algarum, University Herbarium, University of California, Berkeley http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/INA.html. Updated continuously. ..

Key references
Abbott, I.A., Fisher, J. & McDermid, K.J. (2002). Newly reported and revised marine algae from the vicinity of Nha Trang, Vietnam. In: Taxonomy of Economic Seaweeds with reference to some Pacific species. Vol. VIII. (Abbott, I.A. & Mcdermid, K.J. Eds) Vol. 8, pp. 291-321. Oceanographic Institute, Nha Trang, Vietnam: California Sea Grant College.

Dawes, C.J. & Mathieson, A.C. (2008). The seaweeds of Florida. pp. [i]- viii, [1]-591, [592], pls I-LI. Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida.

Famá, P., Wysor, B., Kooistra, W.H.C.F. & Zuccarello, G.C. (2002). Molecular phylogeny of the genus Caulerpa (Caulerpales, Chlorophyta) inferred from chloroplast tufA gene. Journal of Phycology 38: 1040-1050.

Stam, W.T., Olsen, J.L., Zaleski, S.F., Murray, S.N., Brown, K.R. & Walters, L.J. (2006). A forensic and phylogenetic survey of Caulerpa species (Caulerpales, Chlorophyta) from the Florida coast, local aquarium shops, and e-commerce: establishing a proactive baseline for early detection. Journal of Phycology 42: 1113-1124.

Verlaque, M., Durand, C., Huisman, J.M., Boudouresque, C-F., & Le Parco, Y. (2003). On the identity and origin of the Mediterranean invasive Caulerpa racemosa (Caulerpales, Chlorophyta). European Journal of Phycology 38: 325-339.

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

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=Caulerpa&Species=racemosa

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 26 March 1998 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 28 June 2012 by Wendy Guiry

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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 23 May 2013.

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