Spongonema tomentosum (Hudson) Kützing

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Chromista
Phylum Ochrophyta
Class Phaeophyceae
Order Ectocarpales
Family Ectocarpaceae
Genus Spongonema

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Murles Point, Co. Donegal, Ireland; on Fucus in pools. 25 May 1994. Michael Guiry. © Michael Guiry (mike.guiry@nuigalway.ie).

Spongonema tomentosum (Hudson) Kützing Murles Point, Co. Donegal, Ireland; on Fucus in pools

Publication details
Spongonema tomentosum (Hudson) Kützing 1849: 461

Original publication: Kützing, F.T. (1849). Species algarum. pp. [i]-vi, [1]-922. Lipsiae [Leipzig]: F.A. Brockhaus.
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Type species
This is the type species (lectotype) of the genus Spongonema.

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

Basionym
Conferva tomentosa Hudson

Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), tomentose, i.e., thickly and evenly covered with short more or less adpressed curled or curved matted hairs (Stearn 1973).

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Conferva tomentosa Hudson 1762
Ceramium tomentosum (Hudson) Roth 1800
Ectocarpus tomentosus (Hudson) Lyngbye 1819
Chordaria tomentosa (Hudson) Fries 1845
Scytosiphon tomentosus (Hudson) J.Agardh 1848

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Ectocarpus minimus Nägeli
Streblonema luteolum (Sauv.) De Toni
Streblonema minimum (Nägeli) De Toni
Ectocarpus tomentosus var. clavatus C.Agardh 1824
Ectocarpus luteolus Sauvageau 1892
Sphacella subtilissima var. anglica Batters 1897
Ectocarpus ellipticus De A.Saunders 1898
Herponema luteolum (Sauvageau) G.Hamel 1939
Feldmannia elliptica (De A.Saunders) Hollenberg & I.A.Abbott 1966

General environment
This is a Marine species.

Common names

(as Spongonema tomentosum (Hudson) Kützing)
English: Lamb's Tails (Bunker et al. 2010).

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Ectocarpus minimus Nägeli)
Europe: Britain (Newton 1931), Helgoland (Bartsch & Kuhlenkamp 2000).

(as Ectocarpus tomentosus (Hudson) Lyngbye)
Ireland: Dublin (Sanders 1860), Mayo (Cotton 1912, Cotton 1913).

Europe: Britain (Newton 1931), Ireland (Cotton 1912, Cotton 1913), Spain (Miranda 1931), Sweden (Kylin 1907).

North America: Mexico (Taylor 1945), New Jersey (Taylor 1957), Virginia (Humm 1979).

South America: Galápagos Islands (Taylor 1945).

(as Spongonema tomentosum (Hudson) Kützing)
Ireland: Antrim (Morton 1994), Clare (Pybus 1977, Guiry 1978, De Valéra et al. 1979), Cork (Cullinane 1971, Guiry 1978), Derry (Morton 1994), Donegal (Guiry 1978, Morton 2003), Down (Morton 1994), Galway (Pybus 1977, Guiry 1978), Waterford (Guiry 1978), Wexford (Norton 1970, Guiry 1978).

Europe: Baltic Sea (Nielsen et al. 1995), Britain (Hardy & Guiry 2003), Denmark (Larsen & Sand-Jensen 2006), Faroe Islands (Irvine 1982, Nielsen & Gunnarsson 2001), France (Feldmann 1954, Coppejans 1995, Dizerbo & Herpe 2007, Loiseaux-de Goër & Noailles 2008, Silberfeld et al. 2011, Anon. 2012), Greece (Gerloff & Geissler 1974), Helgoland (Bartsch & Kuhlenkamp 2000), Ireland (Cullinane 1971, Pybus 1977, Guiry 1978, De Valéra et al. 1979, Morton 1994, Guiry 2012), Italy (Ribera et al. 1992), Netherlands (Stegenga & Mol 1983), Norway (Rueness 1997), Portugal (Ardré 1970, Araujo et al. 2009), Scandinavia (Athanasiadis 1996), Spain (Granja, Cremades & Barbara 1992, Bárbara, Cremades & Pérez-Cirera 1995, Bárbara & Cremades 1996, Cremades, Bárbara, Granja & Veiga 1997, Veiga, Cremades & Bárbara 1998, Bárbara et al., 2003, Bárbara et al. 2005, Cires Rodriguez & Cuesta Moliner 2010), Sweden (Kylin 1947), Turkey (Europe) (Taskin et al. 2008 ).

Atlantic Islands: Azores (Neto 1994), Canary Islands (Price, John & Lawson 1978, Gil-Rodríguez & Afonso-Carrillo 1980, Haroun et al. 2002, Gil-Rodríguez et al. 2003, John et al. 2004, Anon 2011), Cape Verde Islands (Prud'homme van Reine, Haroun & Kostermans 2005), Iceland (Caram & Jónsson 1972).

North America: Alaska (Lindstrom 1977, Scagel et al. 1989), British Columbia (Scagel et al. 1989), California (Abbott & Hollenberg 1976, Scagel et al. 1989, Miller 2012), Maine (Mathieson et al. 2001), New Hampshire (Mathieson & Hehre 1986), Oregon (Hansen 1997), Washington (Scagel et al. 1989).

Central America: México (Pacific) (Pedroche et al. 2008).

Caribbean Islands: Cuba (Suárez 2005).

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

South America: Chile (Santelices 1989, Ramírez & Santelices 1991, Hoffmann & Santelices 1997), Galápagos Islands (Ruiz & Ziemmeck 2011).

Africa: Ghana (John et al. 2004), Mauritania (John et al. 2004).

South-west Asia: Turkey (Asia) (Taskin et al. 2008 ).

Asia: China (Zeng 2009), Japan (Yoshida, Nakajima & Nakata 1990).

Antarctic and the subantarctic islands: Fuegia (Papenfuss 1964).

(as Ectocarpus luteolus Sauvageau)
Ireland: Mayo (Cotton 1912).

Europe: Britain (Newton 1931), France (), Ireland (Cotton 1912).

(as Herponema luteolum (Sauvageau) G.Hamel)
Europe: France (Feldmann & Magne 1964).

Atlantic Islands: Bermuda (Taylor 1960).

Taxonomic notes
John et al. (2004) cite Ectocarpus minimus Nägeli, Ectocarpus tomentosus (Huds.) Lyngb, Streblonema luteolum (Sauv.) De Toni and Streblonema minimum (Nägeli) De Toni as synonyms of this species.

Key references
Cormaci, M., Furnari, G., Catra, M., Alongi, G. & Giaccone, G. (2012). Flora marina bentonica del Mediterraneo: Phaeophyceae. Bollettino dell'Accademia Gioenia 45: 1-508.

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.

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

Pedroche, P.F., Silva, P.C., Aguilar Rosas, L.E., Dreckmann, K.M. & Aguilar Rosas, R. (2008). Catálogo de las algas benthónicas del Pacífico de México II. Phaeophycota. pp. [i-viii], i-vi, 15-146. Mexicali & Berkeley: Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana and University of California Berkeley.

Rezacova, M. & Skaloud, P. (2005). Silica-scaled chrysophytes of Ireland. With an appendix: geographic variation of scale shape of Mallomonas caudata. Beihefte zur Nova Hedwigia 128: 101-124.

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

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=Spongonema&Species=tomentosum

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 31 March 1996 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 07 March 2013 by M.D. Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 1646 times since it was created.

References
(Please note: only references with the binomials in the title are included. The information is from the Literature database.)

Coppejans, E. (1983). Spongonema tomentosum (Huds.) Kütz. (phaeophyta, Ectocarpales), nouveau pour la flore du Boulonnais (Pas-de-Calais, France). Dumortiera 27: 1-5.

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M.D. 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 19 June 2013.

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