Ceramium siliquosum (Kützing) Maggs & Hommersand

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 siliquosum (Kützing) Maggs & Hommersand 1993: 74, fig. 25A-C

Original publication: 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.

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
Hormoceras siliquosum Kützing

Type information
Type locality: Torbay, Devon (Maggs & Hommersand 1993: 74). Holotype: L 940. 142.282 (Maggs & Hommersand 1993: 74). Notes: Collector: Berkeley (INA).

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

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Hormoceras siliquosum Kützing 1847

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Ceramium elegans var. diaphanoideum Celan & Serbanescu
Ceramium elegans f. longiarticulata Celan & Serbanescu
Ceramium radiculosum Grunow ex Hauck 1875

General environment
This is a marine species.

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Ceramium elegans var. diaphanoideum Celan & Serbanescu)
Europe: Romania (Caraus 2002).

(as Ceramium elegans f. longiarticulata Celan & Serbanescu)
Europe: Turkey (Europe) (Güven & Öztig 1971).

(as Ceramium radiculosum Grunow ex Hauck)
Europe: Adriatic (Giaccone 1978), Italy (Furnari, Cormaci & Serio 1999).

(as Ceramium siliquosum (Kützing) Maggs & Hommersand)
Ireland: Clare (Maggs & Hommersand 1993, Skage et al. 2005), Donegal (Maggs & Hommersand 1993, Morton 2003).

Europe: Adriatic (Gómez Garreta et al. 2001), Balearic Islands (Gómez Garreta et al. 2001), Baltic Sea (Nielsen et al. 1995), Black Sea (Gómez Garreta et al. 2001), Britain (Maggs & Hommersand 1993, Hardy & Guiry 2003), France (Maggs & Hommersand 1993, Gómez Garreta et al. 2001, Dizerbo & Herpe 2007, Anon. 2012), Greece (Gómez Garreta et al. 2001, Christia et al. 2011), Ireland (Maggs & Hommersand 1993), Italy (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), Romania (Caraus 2012), Sardinia (Gómez Garreta et al. 2001, Furnari et al. 2003), Sicily (Alongi et al. 2012), Spain (Maggs & Hommersand 1993, Gómez Garreta et al. 2001, Skage et al. 2005), Turkey (Europe) (Gómez Garreta et al. 2001).

South America: Brazil (Creed et al. 2010).

Africa: Algeria (Gómez Garreta et al. 2001), Egypt (Gómez Garreta et al. 2001), Morocco (Gómez Garreta et al. 2001), Tunisia (Gómez Garreta et al. 2001).

South-west Asia: Levant states (Gómez Garreta et al. 2001).

Key references
Serio, D., Alongi, G., Catra, M., Cormaci, M. & Furnari, G. (2006). Changes in the benthic algal flora of Linosa Island (Straits of Sicily, Mediterranean Sea). Botanica Marina 49: 135-144.

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=siliquosum

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=siliquosum

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

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. 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:77051