Acrochaetium arcuatum (K.M.Drew) C.K.Tseng

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Rhodophyta
Subphylum Eurhodophytina
Class Florideophyceae
Subclass Nemaliophycidae
Order Acrochaetiales
Family Acrochaetiaceae
Genus Acrochaetium

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Publication details
Acrochaetium arcuatum (K.M.Drew) C.K.Tseng 1945: 158, pl. I: fig. 1

Original publication: Tseng, C.K. (1945). New and unrecorded marine algae of Hong Kong. Papers of the Michigan Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters 30: 157-172, Plates I, II.

Type species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Acrochaetium is Acrochaetium secundatum (Lyngbye) Nägeli.

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

Basionym
Rhodochorton arcuatum Drew

Type information
Type locality: Moss Beach, San Mateo County, California (Dawson 1953: 32). Holotype: Drew; UC Drew 1037, sheet 294558 (Dawson 1953: 32).

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Rhodochorton arcuatum Drew 1928
Kylinia arcuata (Drew) Kylin 1944
Chromastrum arcuatum (Drew) Papenfuss 1945
Audouinella arcuata (Drew) Garbary, G.I.Hansen & Scagel 1983

General environment
This is a marine species.

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Rhodochorton arcuatum Drew)
North America: Gulf of California (Dawson 1944).

(as Kylinia arcuata (Drew) Kylin)
North America: Mexico (Dawson 1953).

(as Acrochaetium arcuatum (K.M.Drew) C.K.Tseng)
North America: California (Abbott & Hollenberg 1976, Silva 1979, Miller 2012).

Asia: China (Zeng 2009), Russia (Perestenko 1994).

(as Audouinella arcuata (Drew) Garbary, G.I.Hansen & Scagel)
North America: Alaska (Scagel et al. 1989), British Columbia (Scagel et al. 1989), California (Scagel et al. 1989), Oregon (Hansen 1997), Washington (Scagel et al. 1989).

Key references
Zeng, C. (Tseng, C.K.), Luan, R., Chen, Z. & Li, W. (2005). Flora algarum marinarum sinicarum Tomus II Rhodophyta No. II Acrochaetiales Nemaliales Bonnemaisoniales. pp. [i-vii], i-xxiii, 1-180 , pls I-VIII. Beijing: Science Press.

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

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=Acrochaetium&Species=arcuatum

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 13 April 1998 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 29 May 2009 by M.D. Guiry

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Citing AlgaeBase
Cite this record as:
Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2013. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org; searched on 22 May 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:72889