Elachista fucicola (Velley) Areschoug

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Chromista
Phylum Ochrophyta
Class Phaeophyceae
Order Ectocarpales
Family Chordariaceae
Genus Elachista

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Spain. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

Selce, northern Croatia. 26 Mar 2011. Mat Vestjens & Anne Frijsinger. © Mat Vestjens & Anne Frijsinger (annenmat@natuurlijkmooi.net).

Scotland, Oban area east coast. 26 Mar 2011. Mat Vestjens & Anne Frijsinger. © Mat Vestjens & Anne Frijsinger (annenmat@natuurlijkmooi.net).

Spain, Galicia, Ría de Arousa, 2009. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

on Fucus spiralis var. platycarpus, Spain, Galicia, ría de A Coruña, 2009. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

microscope, Spain, Galicia, Ría de Coruña, 2007. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

microscope, North of Portugal, Sasinhas, 2007. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

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Elachista fucicola (Velley) Areschoug Scotland, Oban area east coast

Publication details
Elachista fucicola (Velley) Areschoug 1842: 235, pl. VIII: figs 6, 7

Original publication: Areschoug, J.E. (1842). Algarum (phycearum) minus rite cognitarum pugillus primus. Linnaea 16: 225-236.

Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Elachista is Elachista scutellata Duby.

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

Basionym
Conferva fucicola Velley

Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), dwelling, growing on Fucus (Stearn 1973).

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Conferva fucicola Velley 1795

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Elachista fucicola f. grevillei Hamel
Conferva fucorum Roth 1797
Conferva flaccida Hornemann 1827
Elachista globosa Ørsted 1844
Elachista lubrica Ruprecht 1850
Elachista grevillei Arnott ex Harvey 1857
Elachista fucicola var. lubrica (Ruprecht) Rosenvinge 1893
Elachista fucicola f. lubrica (Ruprecht) Printz 1926
Myriactula lubrica (Ruprecht) Jaasund 1960

General environment
This is a marine species.

Common names

(as Elachista fucicola (Velley) Areschoug)
English: Tiny Wrack Bush (Bunker et al. 2010).

Swedish: Tångludd (Tolstoy & Österlund 2003).

Distribution by country

Point data for Ireland and Britain

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Detailed distribution with sources
(as Conferva fucicola Velley)
Ireland: Wexford (Tighe 1803).

Europe: Ireland (Tighe 1803).

(as Elachista fucicola (Velley) Areschoug)
Arctic: Canada (Arctic) (Taylor 1957, Lee 1980), Svalbard (Fredriksen & Kile 2012, Hop et al. 2012).

Ireland: Antrim (Adams 1907, Guiry 1978, Morton 1994), Clare (Cullinane 1971, Guiry 1978, De Valéra et al. 1979), Cork (Renouf 1931, Guiry 1978), Derry (Morton 1994), Donegal (Guiry 1978, Morton 2003), Down (Morton 1974, Guiry 1978, Morton 1994), Dublin (Sanders 1860, Guiry 1978), Galway (Guiry 1978), Kerry (Guiry 1978), Leitrim (Cullinane 1970, Guiry 1978), Limerick (Cullinane 1969, Guiry 1978), Mayo (Cotton 1912, Guiry 1978), Waterford (Guiry 1978), Wexford (Cotton 1913, Parkes & Scannell 1969, Norton 1970, Guiry 1978).

Europe: Adriatic (Giaccone 1978, Ribera et al. 1992), Baltic Sea (Nielsen et al. 1995), Black Sea (Ribera et al. 1992), Britain (Newton 1931, Fletcher 1987, 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), Helgoland (Bartsch & Kuhlenkamp 2000), Ireland (Adams 1907, Cotton 1912, Cotton 1913, Cullinane 1969, Cullinane 1971, Guiry 1978, De Valéra et al. 1979, Fletcher 1987, Morton 1994, Guiry 2012), Italy (Cecere et al. 1996), Netherlands (Stegenga & Mol 1983, Stegenga, Kaaremans & Simons 2007), Norway (Rueness 1997), Portugal (De Mesquita Rodrigues 1963, Ardré 1970, Araujo et al. 2009, Araújo, Bárbara & Sousa-Pinto in press), Scandinavia (Athanasiadis 1996), Spain (Lázaro Ibiza 1889, Sauvageau 1897, Hamel 1928, Miranda 1931, Seoane-Camba 1957, Fischer-Piette, C. & Seoane Camba, J. (1962), Seoane-Camba 1965, Granja, Cremades & Barbara 1992, Barbara, Cremades & López Rodriguez 1992, Flores-Moya et al. 1994, Flores-Moya et al. 1995, Bárbara, Cremades & Pérez-Cirera 1995, Bárbara & Cremades 1996, Veiga, Cremades & Bárbara 1998, Calvo & Bárbara 2002, Peña & Bárbara 2002, Gorostiaga et al., 2004, Bárbara et al. 2005, Cires Rodriguez & Cuesta Moliner 2010), Spitsbergen (Vinogradova 1995), Sweden (Kylin 1907, Kylin 1947, Tolstoy & Österlund 2003), Turkey (Europe) (Taskin et al. 2008 ).

Atlantic Islands: E. Greenland (Lund 1959, Pedersen 1976), Greenland (Pedersen 2011), Iceland (Caram & Jónsson 1972).

North America: Alaska (Lindstrom 1977, Scagel et al. 1989, Lindeberg & Lindstrom 2010), California (Scagel et al. 1989, Miller 2012), Connecticut (Van Patten 2009), Maine (Mathieson et al. 2001), New Hampshire (Mathieson & Hehre 1986), New Jersey (Taylor 1957), Nova Scotia (Longtin et al. 2009), Oregon (Hansen 1997), Quebec (Taylor 1957), Virginia (Humm 1979).

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

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

Asia: China (Tseng 1984), Japan (Okamura 1936), Kamchatka (Klochkova, Korolyova & Kusidi 2009).

(as Elachista lubrica Ruprecht)
Arctic: Canada (Arctic) (Taylor 1957).

Europe: Spitsbergen (Vinogradova 1995).

North America: Alaska (Lindstrom 1977, Scagel et al. 1989), Maine (Taylor 1957), New Hampshire (Taylor 1957), Newfoundland (Taylor 1957), Quebec (Taylor 1957).

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

Asia: Japan (Okamura 1936).

(as Elachista grevillei Arnott ex Harvey)
Europe: Britain (Newton 1931).

(as Myriactula lubrica (Ruprecht) Jaasund)
Europe: Norway (Rueness 1997).

Taxonomic notes
Guiry (1997) suggest consulting Fletcher (1987) for the synonym between Elachista globosa and E. fucicola.

Key references
Braune, W. (2008). Meeresalgen. Ein Farbbildführer zu den verbreiteten benthischen Grün- Braun- und Rotalgen der Weltmeere. pp. [1]-596, pls 1-266 (colour photographs). Ruggell: A.R.G. Gantner Verlag.

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

Fletcher, R.L. (1987). Seaweeds of the British Isles. Vol. 3. Fucophyceae (Phaeophyceae). Part 1. pp. [i]-x, [1]-359, 90 figs, 15 pls. London: British Museum (Natural History).

Klochkova, N.G., Korolyova, T.N. & Kusidi, A.E. (2009). [Atlas of algae-macrophytes Kamchatka waters. Vol 1. Green algae and brown algae]. pp. 1-216. Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky: KamchatNIRO Press.

Lindeberg, M.R. & Lindstrom, S.C. (2010). Field guide to the seaweeds of Alaska. pp. [i-]iii-iv, 1-188, numerous col. photographs. Fairbanks: Alaska Sea Grant College Program.

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

Pedersen, P.M. (2011). Grønlands havalger. pp. [1] 7-208. Copenhagen: Forlaget Epsilon.DK.

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

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=Elachista&Species=fucicola

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 31 March 1996 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 26 June 2012 by Michael Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 3961 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.)

Blackler, H. & Katpitia, A. (1963). Observations on the life history and cytology of Elachista fucicola.. Transactions of the Botanical Society, Edinburgh 39: 392-395.
Deckert, R.J. & Garbary, D.J. (2005). Ascophyllum and its symbionts. VIII. Interactions among Ascophyllum nodosum (Phaeophyceae), Mycophycias ascophylli (Ascopmycetes) and Elachista fucicola (Phaeophyceae). Algae 20: 363-368.
Koeman, R.P.T. & Cortel-Breeman, A.M. (1973). The life-history of Elachista fucicola (Vell.) Aresch.. British Phycological Journal 8: 213.
Koeman, R.P.T. & Cortel-Breeman, A.M. (1976). Observations on the life history of Elachista fucicola (Vell.) Aresch. (Phaeophyceae) in culture. Phycologia 15: 107-117.
Kornmann, P. (1962). Plurilokuläre Sporangien bei Elachista fucicola. Helgoländer Wissenschaftliche Meeresuntersuchungen 8: 293-297.
Pedersen, P.M. (1979). Culture studies on the brown alga Halothrix lumbricalis and Elachista fucicola (Elachistaceae). Botaniska Notiser 132: 151-159.
Uwai, S., Kogame, K. & Masuda, M. (2000). Morphology and life history of four Japanese species of Elachista (Elachistaceae, Phaeophyceae), including a new record of E. fucicola. Phycological Research 48: 267-280.

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Michael 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.

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