Ceramium botryocarpum A.W.Griffiths ex Harvey
Publication details
Ceramium botryocarpum A.W.Griffiths ex Harvey 1848: pl. 215
Original publication: Harvey, W.H. (1848). 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. pp. text with plates, pls CXLV-CCXVI [145-216]. London: Reeve & Benham.
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Type species
The type species (neotype) of the genus Ceramium is Ceramium virgatum Roth.
Status of name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), literally, grape-like fruit (Stearn 1973).
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Ceramium lanciferum var. monstruosum Kützing 1847
General environment
This is a marine species.
Habitat
Epiphytic on perennial algae, such as Cladostephus verticillatus and Laurencia pinnatifida, also growing on silty rock, in upper-shore pools and on open rock around the level of low water of neap tides, in habitats where large brown algae are absent, at moderately sheltered sites (Maggs & Hommersand 1993: 47).
Distribution by country
Point data for Ireland and Britain
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Syntype localities: Preston Rocks, Paington, Devon, England (Maggs & Hommersand 1993: 45). Lectotype: Griffiths; June 1846; TCD (Maggs & Hommersand 1993: 45). Notes: TCD, BM. Type locality: Preston Rocks, Torbay, Devon, UK (Maggs et al., 2002: 414).
Detailed distribution with sources
(as Ceramium botryocarpum A.W.Griffiths ex Harvey)
Ireland: Clare (Maggs & Hommersand 1993), Cork (Maggs & Hommersand 1993), Donegal (Morton 2003), Down (Skage et al. 2005), Dublin (Sanders 1860, Maggs & Hommersand 1993).
Europe: Britain (Newton 1931, Maggs & Hommersand 1993, Maggs, Ward, McIvor, Evans, Rueness & Stanhope 2002, Hardy & Guiry 2003), Channel Islands (Maggs, Ward, McIvor, Evans, Rueness & Stanhope 2002), France (Dizerbo & Herpe 2007, Anon. 2012), Ireland (Maggs & Hommersand 1993, Maggs, Ward, McIvor, Evans, Rueness & Stanhope 2002, Guiry 2012), Portugal (Cremades et al., 2002, Araujo, R., I. Bárbara, I. Sousa-Pinto & V. Quintino (2005), Araújo et al. 2006, Araujo et al. 2009, Araújo, Bárbara & Sousa-Pinto in press), Spain (Bárbara & Cremades 1996, Cremades, Bárbara, Granja & Veiga 1997, Veiga, Cremades & Bárbara 1998, Bárbara 2002, Bárbara et al., 2003, Gorostiaga et al., 2004, Bárbara et al. 2005, Diaz-Tapia & Bárbara 2005, Díaz et al 2008, Cires Rodriguez & Cuesta Moliner 2010).
Source of synonymy
Maggs, C.A., Ward, B.A., McIvor, L.M., Evans, C.M., Rueness, J. & Stanhope, M.J. (2002). Molecular analyses elucidate the taxonomy of fully corticated, nonspiny species of Ceramium (Ceramiaceae, Rhodophyta) in the British Isles. Phycologia 41: 409-420.
Key references
Maggs, C.A. & Hommersand, M.H. (1993). Seaweeds of the British Isles. Volume 1. Rhodophyta. Part 3A. Ceramiales. pp. [i]-xv, 1-444, 129 figs, map. London: HMSO.
Maggs, C.A., Ward, B.A., McIvor, L.M., Evans, C.M., Rueness, J. & Stanhope, M.J. (2002). Molecular analyses elucidate the taxonomy of fully corticated, nonspiny species of Ceramium (Ceramiaceae, Rhodophyta) in the British Isles. Phycologia 41: 409-420.
Skage, M., Gabrielsen, T.M. & Rueness, J. (2005). A molecular approach to investigate the phylogenetic basis of three widely used species groups in the red algal genus Ceramium (Ceramiales, Rhodophyta). Phycologia 44: 353-360.
Wolf, M.A., Sciuto, K., Maggs, C.A., de Barros-Barreto, M.B.B., Andreoli, C. & Moro, I. (2011). Ceramium Roth (Ceramiales, Rhodophyta) from Venice lagoon (Adriatic Sea, Italy): Comparative study of Mediterranean and Atlantic taxa. Taxon 60(6): 1584-1595.
SAG Cultures
SAG Cultures may be viewed at http://sagdb.uni-goettingen.de/showstrains.php?genus=Ceramium&species=botryocarpum
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=Ceramium&Species=botryocarpum
Created: 17 May 1996 by M.D. Guiry
Verified by: 06 February 2012 by Wendy Guiry
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Wendy Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2013.
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Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:77060
