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Polysiphonia morrowii Harvey

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Rhodophyta
Subphylum Eurhodophytina
Class Florideophyceae
Subclass Rhodymeniophycidae
Order Ceramiales
Family Rhodomelaceae
Tribe Polysiphonieae
Genus Polysiphonia

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Peter the Great Bay, Russia. 28 Mar 2012. Oksana Belous. © Oksana Belous (ksu_bio@mail.ru).

France, Mediterranean, Salses, 2011. 24 Oct 2011. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

France, Mediterranean, Thau Lagoon, 2011. 24 Oct 2011. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

France, Mediterranean, Salses, 2011. 24 Oct 2011. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

Polysiphonia morrowii Harvey France, Mediterranean, Thau Lagoon, 2011

Publication details
Polysiphonia morrowii Harvey 1857: 331

Original publication: Harvey, W.H. (1857 '1856'). Algae. In: Account of the Botanical specimens. (Gray, A., ed) Narrative of the expedition of an American squadron to the China Seas and Japan, performed in the years 1852, 1853 and 1854, under the command of Commodore M.C. Perry, United States Navy. Volume II - with illustrations. (Anon. Eds), pp. 331-332. Washington: Senate of the Thirty-third Congress, Second Session, Executive Document. House of Representatives.
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Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Polysiphonia is Polysiphonia urceolata (Lightfoot ex Dillwyn) Greville.

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

Synonym(s)
No synonyms are currently included in AlgaeBase.

General environment
This is a Marine species.

Distribution by country

Type information
Type locality: Hakodate (Masuda et al. 1995: 199). Lectotype: Dr J. Morrow; May 1854; TCD (Masuda et al. 1995: 199, fig. 29).

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Polysiphonia morrowii Harvey)
Europe: France (Verlaque 2001, Anon. 2012), Italy (Curiel, Bellemo, La Rocca, Scattolin & Marzocchi 2002 ), Turkey (Europe) (Percot, Yalcin, Aysel, Erdugan, Durral & Guven 2009, Erdugan et al. 2009 ).

South America: Chile (Kim et al. 2004 ).

Asia: China (Tseng 1984), Commander Islands (Selivanova & Zhigadlova 1997), Japan (Segawa 1981, Yoshida, Nakajima & Nakata 1990, Yoshida 1998), Korea (Lee & Kang 2001, Kim et al. 2004, Lee 2008, Lee et al. 2011, Nam & Kang 2012), Russia (Perestenko 1980, Perestenko 1994, Kozhenkova 2009), South Korea (Choi, Kraft, Lee & Saunders 2002).

Australia and New Zealand: New Zealand (Mamoozadeh & Freshwater 2011 , Nelson 2012, D'Archino et al. 2013 ).

Key references
Boo, S.M. & Ko, Y.D. (2012). Marine plants from Korea. pp. [1] 5-233, many col. photographs. Seoul: Marine & Extreme Genome Research Centre Program.

Curiel, D., Bellemo, G., La Rocca, B., Scattolin, M. & Marzocchi, M. (2002). First report of Polysiphonia morrowii Harvey (Ceramiales, Rhodophyta) in the Mediterranean Sea. Botanica Marina 45: 66-70.

D'Archino, R., Neill, K.F. & Nelson, W.A. (2013). Recognition and distribution of Polysiphonia morrowii (Rhodomelaceae, Rhodophyta) in New Zealand. Botanica Marina 56(1): 41-47.

Masuda, M., Kudo, T., Kawaguchi, S. & Guiry, M.D. (1995). Lectotypification of some marine red algae described by W. H. Harvey from Japan. Phycological Research 43: 191-202, 34 figs.

Nam, K.W. & Kang, P.J. (2012). Algal flora of Korea. Volume 4, Number 4. Rhodophyta: Ceramiales: Rhodomelaceae: 18 genera including Herposiphonia. pp. [1-6], 1-178, figs 1-102. Incheon: National Institute of Biological Resources.

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

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=Polysiphonia&Species=morrowii

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 12 April 1998 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 18 April 2013 by Wendy Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 1265 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.)

Curiel, D., Bellemo, G., La Rocca, B., Scattolin, M. & Marzocchi, M. (2002). First report of Polysiphonia morrowii Harvey (Ceramiales, Rhodophyta) in the Mediterranean Sea. Botanica Marina 45: 66-70.
D'Archino, R., Neill, K.F. & Nelson, W.A. (2013). Recognition and distribution of Polysiphonia morrowii (Rhodomelaceae, Rhodophyta) in New Zealand. Botanica Marina 56(1): 41-47.
Kim, M.-S., Chan Yang, E., Mansilla, A. & Min Boo, S. (2004). Recent introduction of Polysiphonia morrowii (Ceramiales, Rhodophyta) to Punta Arenas, Chile . Botanica Marina 47: 389-394.
Kim, M.S., Lee, I.K. & Boo, S.M. (1994). Morphological studies of the red alga Polysiphonia morrowii Harvey on the Korean Coast. Korean Journal of Phycology 9(2): 185-192, 7 figs, 1 table.
Kudo, T. & Masuda, M. (1981). A taxonomic study of Polysiphonia morrowii Harvey (Rhodophyta, Ceramiales). Japanese Journal of Phycology 29: 263-272.
Kudo, T. & Masuda, M. (1992). Taxonomic features of Polysiphonia morrowii Harvey (Ceramiales, Rhodophyta). Korean Journal of Phycology 7(1): 13-26, 8 figs, 1 table.
Lee, W.J. & Lee, I.K. (1991). Mixed phases reproduction of Polysiphonia morrowii Harvey (Rhodomelaceae, Rhodophyta) in culture. Japanese Journal of Phycology 39: 115-121.

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Citing AlgaeBase
Cite this record as:
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 20 May 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:72961

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