Ceramium diaphanum (Lightfoot) Roth

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Rhodophyta
Subphylum Eurhodophytina
Class Florideophyceae
Subclass Rhodymeniophycidae
Order Ceramiales
Family Ceramiaceae
Subfamily Ceramioideae
Tribe Ceramieae
Genus Ceramium

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Publication details
Ceramium diaphanum (Lightfoot) Roth 1806: 154

Original publication: Roth, A.G. (1806). Catalecta botanica quibus plantae novae et minus cognitae describuntur atque illustrantur. Fasciculus tertius cum tabulis aenaeis XII. pp. [i-viii], [1]-350, [1-2, index pi.], [1-6, index] [1, err.], pls I-XII. Lipsiae [Leipzig]: in Bibliopolio Io. Fr. Gleditschiano.
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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.

Basionym
Conferva diaphana Lightfoot

Type information
Type locality: Scotland (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996: 395). Lectotype: BM-K (Maggs & Hommersand 1993: 54).

Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), colourless and nearly or quite transparent, diaphanous (Stearn 1973).

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Boryna diaphana (Lightfoot) Grateloup
Hormoceras diaphanum (Lightfoot) Kützing
Conferva diaphana Lightfoot 1777

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Ceramium tenuissimum var. tenellum G.Mazoyer
Ceramium diaphanum var. tenuissimum Roth 1806
Hormoceras nodosum Kützing 1842
Hormoceras gracillimum Kützing 1842
Gongroceras tenuissimum Kützing 1842
Ceramium tenuissimum (Roth) Areschoug 1847
Ceramium gracillimum (Kützing) Zanardini 1847
Ceramium nodosum (Kützing) Griffiths & Harvey 1847
Gongroceras nodiferum Kützing 1849
Ceramium nodiferum (Kützing) P.L.Crouan & H.M.Crouan 1878
Ceramium diaphanum f. modificatum Petersen 1908
Ceramium diaphanum f. zostericola Petersen 1908
Ceramium diaphanum f. medium Sjöstedt 1928
Ceramium pygmaeum Schiffner 1933

General environment
This is a marine species.

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Conferva diaphana Lightfoot)
Ireland: Wexford (Tighe 1803).

Europe: Britain (Lightfoot 1777), Ireland (Tighe 1803), Spain (Roxas Clemente y Rubio 1807).

(as Ceramium diaphanum (Lightfoot) Roth)
Ireland: Antrim (Johnson & Hensman 1896, Adams 1907, Guiry 1978, McMillan & Morton 1979, Morton 1994), Clare (Guiry 1978), Cork (Renouf 1931, Guiry 1978), Donegal (Maggs & Hommersand 1993, Morton 2003), Down (Morton 1994), Dublin (Sanders 1860, Guiry 1978), Galway (Pybus 1977, Guiry 1978), Kerry (Guiry 1978), Mayo (Cotton 1912, Guiry 1978), Waterford (Guiry 1978), Wexford (Cotton 1913, Norton 1970, Guiry 1978).

Europe: Adriatic (Giaccone 1978, Munda 1979, Gómez Garreta et al. 2001), Balearic Islands (Rodríguez y Femenías 1889, Navarro & Bellón 1945, Ribera Siguán 1983, Ribera Siguán & Gómez Garreta 1984, Gómez Garreta et al. 2001), Baltic Sea (Nielsen et al. 1995), Black Sea (Gómez Garreta et al. 2001), Britain (Newton 1931, Maggs & Hommersand 1993, Hardy & Guiry 2003), Bulgaria (Dimitrova-Konaklieva 1981), Corsica (Boudouresque & Perret 1977, Verlaque 1984), Faroe Islands (Irvine 1982, Nielsen & Gunnarsson 2001), France (Feldmann 1943, Feldmann 1954, Ben Maiz, Boudouresque, Lauret & Riouall 1988, Coppejans 1995, Gómez Garreta et al. 2001, Dizerbo & Herpe 2007, Anon. 2012), Greece (Gerloff & Geissler 1974, Haritonidis & Tsekos 1976, Diapoulis, Haritonidis & Koussouris 1986, Athanasiadis 1987, Gómez Garreta et al. 2001, Tsirika & Haritonidis 2005, Christia et al. 2011), Ireland (Adams 1907, Cotton 1912, Cotton 1913, Pybus 1977, Guiry 1978, Maggs & Hommersand 1993, Morton 1994, Guiry 2012), Italy (Giaccone 1969, Feoli & Bressan 1972, Edwards et al. 1975, Cinelli et al. 1976, Cecere et al. 1996, Furnari, Cormaci & Serio 1999, Gómez Garreta et al. 2001, Gómez Garreta et al. 2001, Rindi, Sartoni & Cinelli 2002, Furnari et al. 2003, Furnari et al. 2003, Furnari et al. 2003, Furnari et al. 2003, Serio et al 2006), Malta (Cormaci et al. 1997), Netherlands (Stegenga & Mol 1983), Norway (Rueness 1997, Skage et al. 2005), Portugal (Ardré 1970, Araujo et al. 2009, Araújo, Bárbara & Sousa-Pinto in press), Romania (Caraus 2002, Caraus 2012), Sardinia (Gómez Garreta et al. 2001, Furnari et al. 2003), Scandinavia (Athanasiadis 1996), Slovenia (Rindi & Battelli 2005), Spain (Sauvageau 1897, Miranda 1931 , Seoane-Camba 1965, Ballesteros 1981, Gómez, Ribera & Romero 1981, Ballesteros & Romero 1982, Barcelo & Seoane 1982, Fernández & Niell 1982, Fernández, Niell & Anadón 1983, Pérez-Ruzafa & Honrubia 1984, Gallardo et al. 1985, Anadón & Fernández 1986, Silva & Fernández 1988, Soto & Conde 1989, Fernández & Miyares 1989, Pérez-Ruzafa 1990, Conde, Flores-Moya & Vera 1990, Fernández & Menéndez 1991, Pérez-Ruzafa et al. 1991, Granja, Cremades & Barbara 1992, Bárbara & Cremades 1996, Conde et al. 1996, Gómez Garreta et al. 2001, Peña & Bárbara 2002, Valenzuela Miranda 2002, Gorostiaga et al., 2004, Bárbara et al. 2005, Pérez-Ruzafa et al. 2008, Peña & Bárbara 2008, Cires Rodriguez & Cuesta Moliner 2010), Turkey (Europe) (Güven & Öztig 1971, Gómez Garreta et al. 2001, Taskin et al. 2008 ).

Atlantic Islands: Ascension (John et al. 2004), Azores (Neto 1994, Tittley & Neto 1994), Canary Islands (Børgesen 1930, Gil-Rodríguez & Afonso-Carrillo 1980, Price, John & Lawson 1986, Viera-Rodriguez et al. 1987, Guadalupe et al. 1995, Haroun et al. 2002, Gil-Rodríguez et al. 2003, John et al. 2004, Anon 2011), Cape Verde Islands (Price, John & Lawson 1986, Otero-Schmitt & Sanjuan 1992, John et al. 2004, Prud'homme van Reine, Haroun & Kostermans 2005), Madeira (Levring 1974, Neto, Cravo & Haroun 2001, Haroun et al. 2002, John et al. 2004), Salvage Islands (Audiffred & Weisscher 1984, Price, John & Lawson 1986, Parente et al. 2000, John et al. 2004).

North America: Florida (Taylor 1960 , Schneider & Searles 1991, Littler, Littler & Hanisak 2008), North Carolina (Schneider & Searles 1991, Hommersand et al. 2006), South Carolina (Schneider & Searles 1991), Virginia (Humm 1979).

Caribbean Islands: Alabama (Taylor 1960 ), Cuba (Taylor 1960 , Suárez 2005), Martinique (Rodríguez-Prieto, Michanek & Ivon 1999).

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

South America: Argentina (Taylor 1960), Brazil (Taylor 1930 , Taylor 1960, Creed et al. 2010), Chile (Ramírez & Santelices 1991), Colombia (Díaz-Pulido & Díaz-Ruíz 2003), Tierra del Fuego (Kylin & Skottsberg 1919), Uruguay (Taylor 1960), Venezuela (Ganesan 1990, Solé 2008).

Africa: Algeria (Gómez Garreta et al. 2001), Angola (Price, John & Lawson 1986, John et al. 2004), Cameroon (John, Lawson & Ameka, 2003, John et al. 2004), Côte d'Ivoire (John, Lawson & Ameka, 2003, John et al. 2004), Egypt (Papenfuss 1968, Gómez Garreta et al. 2001), Eritrea (Lipkin & Silva 2002), Ghana (John, Lawson & Ameka, 2003, John et al. 2004), Guinea-Bissau (Price, John & Lawson 1986), Libya (Gómez Garreta et al. 2001), Madagascar (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Mauritania (Price, John & Lawson 1986, John et al. 2004), Mauritius (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Morocco (Dangeard 1949, Gómez Garreta et al. 2001), Mozambique (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Namibia (Price, John & Lawson 1986, Rull Lluch 2002, John et al. 2004), Senegal (Price, John & Lawson 1986, John et al. 2004), Sierra Leone (John, Lawson & Ameka, 2003, John et al. 2004), Somalia (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), South Africa (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Tanzania (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Tunisia (Meñez & Mathieson 1981, Ben Maiz, Boudouresque & Quahchi 1987, Gómez Garreta et al. 2001), West Africa (Price, John & Lawson 1986).

Indian Ocean Islands: Laccadive Islands (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996).

South-west Asia: India (Sahoo et al. 2001), Israel (Nemlich & Danin 1964), Levant states (Gómez Garreta et al. 2001), Oman (Wynne & Jupp 1998), Turkey (Asia) (Taskin et al. 2008 ), Yemen (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996).

Asia: China (Zeng 2009), Korea (Lee & Kang 2001 ).

South-east Asia: Indonesia (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Atmadja & Prud'homme van Reine 2012).

Australia and New Zealand: New Zealand (Nelson 2012), Queensland (Phillips 2002, Phillips 2002, Bostock & Holland 2010).

Antarctic and the subantarctic islands: Antarctica/Subantarctic Islands (Papenfuss 1964), South Georgia (Kylin & Skottsberg 1919).

(as Ceramium tenuissimum (Roth) Areschoug)
Arctic: Canada (Arctic) (Lee 1980).

Ireland: Cork (Guiry 1978), Donegal (Guiry 1978), Down (Guiry 1978), Dublin (Guiry 1978), Galway (Guiry 1978), Mayo (Cotton 1912, Guiry 1978).

Europe: Adriatic (Giaccone 1978, Munda 1979), Britain (Newton 1931, Dixon & Price 1981), Bulgaria (Dimitrova-Konaklieva 1981), Corsica (Boudouresque & Perret 1977, Verlaque 1984), France (Feldmann 1943, Feldmann 1954, Coppejans 1972, Dizerbo & Herpe 2007, Anon. 2012), Greece (Diannelidis 1953, Gerloff & Geissler 1974, Haritonidis & Tsekos 1976, Tsekos & Haritonidis 1977, Diapoulis, Haritonidis & Koussouris 1986, Athanasiadis 1987), Ireland (Cotton 1912, Guiry 1978), Italy (Giaccone 1969, Feoli & Bressan 1972, Edwards et al. 1975, Cinelli et al. 1976), Netherlands (Stegenga & Mol 1983), Portugal (Ardré 1970), Spain (Miranda 1931 , Ballesteros & Romero 1982, Ballesteros 1984, Gallardo et al. 1985, Soto & Conde 1989), Sweden (Kylin 1907, Kylin 1944), Turkey (Europe) (Güven & Öztig 1971).

Atlantic Islands: Ascension (Price & John 1980), Canary Islands (Price, John & Lawson 1986, Gil-Rodriguez, Afonso-Carrillo & Wildpret de la Torre 1987, Guadalupe et al. 1995), Salvage Islands (Audiffred & Weisscher 1984).

South America: Brazil (Taylor 1930), Venezuela (Ganesan 1990).

Africa: Cameroon (Lawson & John 1987), Côte d'Ivorie (Lawson & John 1987), Egypt (Papenfuss 1968, Aleem 1993), Ghana (Lawson & John 1987), Morocco (Dangeard 1949), Sierra Leone (Lawson & John 1987), Tunisia (Meñez & Mathieson 1981, Ben Maiz, Boudouresque & Quahchi 1987).

Asia: China (Tseng 1984, Zheng, Liu & Chen 2001), Japan (Yoshida, Nakajima & Nakata 1990).

South-east Asia: Indonesia (Atmadja & Prud'homme van Reine 2012), Philippines (Silva, Meñez & Moe 1987).

Australia and New Zealand: Queensland (Phillips 1997).

Pacific Islands: Hawaiian Islands (Abbott 1999), Wake Atoll (Tsuda, Abbott & Foster 2006).

(as Ceramium gracillimum (Kützing) Zanardini)
Ireland: Clare (Guiry 1978), Cork (Guiry 1978).

Europe: Adriatic (Munda 1979), Britain (Newton 1931), France (Feldmann 1954, Augier, Boudouresque & Laborel 1971), Greece (Haritonidis & Tsekos 1976), Ireland (Newton 1931, Guiry 1978), Italy (Cinelli et al. 1976), Portugal (Ardré 1970), Spain (Seoane-Camba 1965, Ballesteros 1981, Valenzuela Miranda 2002 ), Turkey (Europe) (Cirik, Zeybeck, Aysel & Cirik 1990).

Atlantic Islands: Ascension (Price, John & Lawson 1986), Canary Islands (Gil-Rodríguez & Afonso-Carrillo 1980, Price, John & Lawson 1986, Viera-Rodriguez et al. 1987), Cape Verde Islands (Price, John & Lawson 1986), Madeira (Levring 1974), Salvage Islands (Audiffred & Weisscher 1984).

Africa: Congo (Price, John & Lawson 1986), Egypt (Aleem 1993), Ethiopia (Papenfuss 1968), Ghana (Price, John & Lawson 1986), Mauritania (Price, John & Lawson 1986), Morocco (Dangeard 1949), São Tomé & Príncipe (Price, John & Lawson 1986), Senegal (Price, John & Lawson 1986), Tunisia (Meñez & Mathieson 1981), Western Sahara (Price, John & Lawson 1986).

Asia: China (Zheng, Liu & Chen 2001), Japan (Yoshida et al. 2004, Yoshida et al. 2004).

South-east Asia: Philippines (Silva, Meñez & Moe 1987), Vietnam (Pham-Hoàng 1969).

Pacific Islands: Federated States of Micronesia (Tsuda 2006), Mariana Islands (Tsuda 2003).

(as Ceramium nodosum (Kützing) Griffiths & Harvey)
Europe: Spain (Conde et al. 1996).

Atlantic Islands: Cape Verde Islands (Prud'homme van Reine, Haroun & Kostermans 2005).

(as Ceramium pygmaeum Schiffner)
Europe: Adriatic (Giaccone 1978).

Taxonomic notes
John et al. (2004) cite Ceramium elegans (J. Agardh) Ducluz., C. nodosum (Kütz.) Harv. and C. tenuissimum (Roth) J. Agardh as synonyms of this species.

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.

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.

Hommersand, M.H., Freshwater, D.W., Lopez-Bautista, J.M. & Fredericq, S. (2006). Proposal of the Euptiloteae Hommersand et Fredericq, trib. nov. and transfer of some southern hemisphere Ptiloteae to the Callithamnieae (Ceramiaceae, Rhodophyta). Journal of Phycology 42: 203-225.

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.

Papenfuss, G.F. (1964). Catalogue and bibliography of Antarctic and Sub-Antarctic benthic marine algae. In: Bibliography of the Antarctic Seas. (Lee, M.O. Eds) Vol.1, pp. 1-76. Washington D.C.: American Geophysical Union.

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.

Wynne, M.J. (2005). A check-list of benthic marine algae of the tropical and subtropical western Atlantic: second revision. Beihefte zur Nova Hedwigia 129: 1-152.

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

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=diaphanum

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 17 May 1996 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 06 February 2012 by Wendy 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.)

Du Rietz, G.E. (1930). Studies in the taxonomy and ecology of Ceramium diaphanum in the Baltic. Botaniska Notiser 1930: 433-458.
Lucas, J.A.W. (1953). Ceramium diaphanum (Lightf.) Roth, its varieties and forms as found in the Netherlands. Acta Botanica Neerlandica 2: 316-326.
Rueness, J. & Boo, S.M. (1994). Structue, reproduction and culture studies of Ceramium diaphanum (Lightfoot) Roth (Ceramiales, Rhodophyta) from Norway and the Mediterranean. Cryptogamic Botany 4: 321-328, 28 figs, 1 table.

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