Polysiphonia senticulosa 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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Publication details
Polysiphonia senticulosa Harvey 1862: 169

Original publication: Harvey, W.H. (1862). Notice of a collection of algae made on the northwest coast of North America, chiefly at Vancouver Island, by David Lyall, Esq., M.D., R.N., in the years 1859-1861. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Botany 6: 157-177.

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.

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Orcasia senticulosa (Harvey) Kylin 1941

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Polysiphonia pungens Hollenberg 1942

General environment
This is a marine species.

Type information
Type locality: Orcas Island, Washington, U.S.A. (Womersley 2003). Holotype: Lyall; BM (Womersley 2003: 180). Notes: Type in BM-K (Yoshida 1998: 1071).

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Polysiphonia senticulosa Harvey)
Europe: Netherlands (Stegenga, Kaaremans & Simons 2007).

North America: Alaska (Scagel et al. 1989), British Columbia (Scagel et al. 1989), Washington (Scagel et al. 1989).

Asia: Japan (Segawa 1981, Yoshida, Nakajima & Nakata 1990, Yoshida 1998), Korea (Nam & Kang 2012).

Australia and New Zealand: New Zealand (Nelson 1999 , Nelson 2012), Victoria (Womersley 2003).

Key references
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.

Womersley, H.B.S. (2003). The marine benthic flora of southern Australia - Part IIID Ceramiales - Delesseriaceae, Sarcomeniaceae, Rhodomelaceae. pp. 533. Canberra & Adelaide: Australian Biological Resources Study & State Herbarium of South Australia.

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

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=senticulosa

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

KU-MACC Cultures
Strain Numbers: KU-657, KU-950, Polysiphonia senticulosa
Go to KU-MACC Site

Created: 12 April 1998 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 08 October 2012 by M.D. Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 913 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.)

Kudo, T. & Masuda, M. (1988). Taxonomic notes on Polysiphonia senticulosa Harvey and P. pungens Hollenberg (Ceramiales, Rhodophyta). Japanese Journal of Phycology 36: 138-142.
Nelson, W.A. & Maggs, C.A. (1996). Records of adventive marine algae in New Zealand: Antithamnionella ternifolia, Polysiphonia senticulosa (Ceramiales, Rhodophyta) and Striaria attenuata (Dictyosiphonales, Phaeophyta). New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 30: 449-453, 4 figs.

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Citing AlgaeBase
Cite this record as:
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 May 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:72955