Ulva ralfsii (Harvey) Le Jolis
Publication details
Ulva ralfsii (Harvey) Le Jolis 1863: 54
Original publication: Le Jolis, A. (1863). Liste des algues marines de Cherbourg. Mémoires de la Société Impériale des Sciences Naturelles de Cherbourg 10: 5-168, pls I-IV.
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Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Ulva is Ulva lactuca Linnaeus.
Status of name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Basionym
Enteromorpha ralfsii Harvey
Type information
Lectotype locality: Bangor, North Wales (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996: 739). Lectotype: Harvey (1851: pl. CCLXXXII) (epitype) J. Ralfs; (Hayden et al. 2003: 290). Notes: According to Womersley (1984: 154) the type is from Bangor, N. Wales. Bliding (1963: 45) reports that there were no types in TCD; Hayden et al. (2003) found no types in BM and selected as lectotype the illustration mentioned above.
Homotypic Synonym(s)
Kallonema ralfsii (Harvey) Dickie
Enteromorpha ralfsii Harvey 1851
Enteromorpha clathrata var. ralfsii (Harvey) V.J.Chapman 1956
General environment
This is a marine species.
Distribution by country
Detailed distribution with sources
(as Enteromorpha ralfsii Harvey)
Ireland: Cork (Guiry 1978, Burrows 1991), Donegal (Guiry 1978, Morton 2003), Down (Morton 1994).
Europe: Adriatic (Giaccone 1978, Gallardo et al. 1993), Belgium (Coppejans 1995), Britain (Newton 1931, Burrows 1991, Hardy & Guiry 2003), France (Dizerbo & Herpe 2007, Anon. 2012), Ireland (Guiry 1978, Burrows 1991, Morton 1994), Italy (Giaccone 1969, Gallardo et al. 1993, Furnari, Cormaci & Serio 1999), Netherlands (Stegenga & Mol 1983), Portugal (Ardré 1970).
Africa: Morocco (Benhissoune, Boudouresque & Verlaque 2001), Tanzania (Oliveira, Österlund & Mtolera 2005).
Indian Ocean Islands: Aldabra Islands (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Seychelles (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996).
South-west Asia: Lebanon (Einav 2007).
South-east Asia: Vietnam (Pham-Hoàng 1969, Tien 2007).
Australia and New Zealand: Lord Howe Island (Millar & Kraft 1994, Kraft 2000), New Zealand (Adams 1994), Queensland (Lewis 1987, Phillips 1997, Phillips 2002), South Australia (Womersley 1984), Victoria (Day et al. 1995).
Pacific Islands: Federated States of Micronesia (Lobban & Tsuda 2003).
(as Ulva ralfsii (Harvey) Le Jolis)
Europe: France (Anon. 2012), Spain (Bárbara et al. 2005), Veneto (Sfriso, A.).
South America: Brazil (Moura 2010).
Asia: China (Titlyanov et al. 2011).
Australia and New Zealand: Lord Howe Island (Kraft 2007), New Zealand (Broady et al. 2012), Queensland (Bostock & Holland 2010).
Pacific Islands: Guam (Lobban & N'Yeurt 2006).
Key references
Hayden, H.S., Blomster, J., Maggs, C.A., Silva, P.C., Stanhope, M.J. & Waaland, J.R. (2003). Linnaeus was right all along: Ulva and Enteromorpha are not distinct genera. European Journal of Phycology 38: 277-294.
Kraft, G.T. (2007). Algae of Australia. Marine benthic algae of Lord Howe Island and the southern Great Barrier Reef, 1. Green algae. pp. [i-iv], v-vi, 1-347, 110 text-figs; 11 pls. Canberra & Melbourne: Australian Biological Resources Study & CSIRO Publishing.
Sfriso, A. (2011). Chlorophyta multicellulari e fanerogame acquatiche. Ambiente di transizione italiani e litorali adiacenti. pp. [1]-318, pls 1-94. Bologna: Arpa Emilia-Romagna.
Titlyanova, T.V., Titlyanov, E.A., Xia, B. & Bartsch, I. (2012). New records of benthic marine green algae (Chlorophyta) for the island of Hainan (China). Nova Hedwigia 94: 441-470.
SAG Cultures
SAG Cultures may be viewed at http://sagdb.uni-goettingen.de/showstrains.php?genus=Ulva&species=ralfsii
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=Ulva&Species=ralfsii
Created: 26 April 2002 by M.D. Guiry
Verified by: 23 June 2012 by Michael Guiry
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Michael Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2013.
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Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:48368
