Lophosiphonia reptabunda (Suhr) Kylin
Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Subkingdom Biliphyta
Phylum Rhodophycophyta
Subphylum Eurhodophytina
Class Florideophyceae
Subclass Rhodymeniophycidae
Order Ceramiales
Family Rhodomelaceae
Genus Lophosiphonia
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Spain, Galicia, Lugo, San Ciprián, 2004, microscope. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara.
Spain, Galicia, Lugo, San Ciprián, 2004; cystocarps. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara.
Spain, Galicia, Lugo, San Ciprián, 2004; tetrasporangia. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara.
Tanzania; detail. Eurico Oliveira. © Eurico Oliveira. From: Oliveira, E., Österlund, K. & Mtolera, M.S.P. (2005). Marine Plants of Tanzania. A field guide to the seaweeds and seagrasses. pp. 267, Numerous coloured illustrations and line drawings. Stockholm: Botany Department, Stockholm University.
Lophosiphonia reptabunda (Suhr) Kylin Tanzania; detail
Publication details
Lophosiphonia reptabunda (Suhr) Kylin 1956: 539
Original publication: Kylin, H. (1956). Die Gattungen der Rhodophyceen. pp. i-xv, 1-673, 458 figs. Lund: C.W.K. Gleerups.
Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Lophosiphonia is Lophosiphonia obscura (C.Agardh) Falkenberg.
Status of name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Basionym
Hutchinsia reptabunda Suhr
Type information
Type locality: Biarritz, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996: 526).
Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), creeping, crawling (Lewis & Short 1890).
Homotypic Synonym(s)
Hutchinsia reptabunda Suhr 1831
Polysiphonia reptabunda (Suhr) Kützing 1843
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Polysiphonia adunca Kützing 1849
General environment
This is a marine species.
Detailed distribution with sources
(as Lophosiphonia reptabunda (Suhr) Kylin)
Ireland: Cork (Cullinane 1970, Cullinane 1971, Guiry 1978, Maggs & Hommersand 1993), Galway (Maggs & Hommersand 1993).
Europe: Balearic Islands (Ribera, Coloreu, Rodriguez Prieto & Ballesteros 1997, Gómez Garreta et al. 2001), Black Sea (Gómez Garreta et al. 2001), Britain (Maggs & Hommersand 1993, Hardy & Guiry 2003), Corsica (Gómez Garreta et al. 2001), France (Gómez Garreta et al. 2001, Dizerbo & Herpe 2007), Greece (Athanasiadis 1987, Gómez Garreta et al. 2001, Tsirika & Haritonidis 2005), Ireland (Cullinane 1970, Cullinane 1971, Guiry 1978, Maggs & Hommersand 1993), Italy (Furnari, Cormaci & Serio 1999, Gómez Garreta et al. 2001, Furnari et al. 2003, Furnari et al. 2003), Portugal (Ardré 1970, Araújo et al., 2003, Araujo et al. 2009, Araújo, Bárbara & Sousa-Pinto in press), Romania (Caraus 2002), Spain (Seoane-Camba 1965, Gallardo et al. 1985, Soto & Conde 1989, Granja, Cremades & Barbara 1992, Conde et al. 1996, Gómez Garreta et al. 2001, Gorostiaga et al., 2004, Bárbara et al. 2005), Turkey (Europe) (Gómez Garreta et al. 2001).
Atlantic Islands: Ascension (John et al. 2004), Azores (Tittley & Neto 1994, Neto 1994), Canary Islands (Viera-Rodriguez et al. 1987, Haroun et al. 2002, Rojas-Gonzalez & Afonso-Carrillo 2002, Gil-Rodríguez et al. 2003, John et al. 2004), Cape Verde Islands (John et al. 2004, Prud'homme van Reine, Haroun & Kostermans 2005), Madeira (Neto, Cravo & Haroun 2001, John et al. 2004), Salvage Islands (Audiffred & Weisscher 1984, John et al. 2004), St Helena (John et al. 2004).
Africa: Angola (John et al. 2004), Cameroon (Lawson & John 1987, John, Lawson & Ameka, 2003, John et al. 2004), Côte d'Ivoire (Lawson & John 1987, John, Lawson & Ameka, 2003, John et al. 2004), Egypt (Aleem 1993, Gómez Garreta et al. 2001), Equatorial Guinea (Lawson & John 1987, John, Lawson & Ameka, 2003, John et al. 2004), Gabon (Lawson & John 1987, John, Lawson & Ameka, 2003, John et al. 2004), Ghana (Lawson & John 1987, John, Lawson & Ameka, 2003, John et al. 2004), Kenya (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Morocco (Gómez Garreta et al. 2001), Sierra Leone (Lawson & John 1987, John, Lawson & Ameka, 2003, John et al. 2004), Tanzania (Oliveira, Österlund & Mtolera 2005), Tunisia (Gómez Garreta et al. 2001).
Indian Ocean Islands: Seychelles (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996).
South-west Asia: Sri Lanka (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996).
South-east Asia: Indonesia (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Vietnam (Pham-Hoàng 1969).
Australia and New Zealand: Lord Howe Island (Millar & Kraft 1993), New South Wales (Millar & Kraft 1993).
Pacific Islands: Fiji (N'Yeurt, South & Keats 1996, South & Skelton 2003).
Key references
Maggs, C.A. & Hommersand, M.H. (1993). Seaweeds of the British Isles. Volume 1. Rhodophyta. Part 3A. Ceramiales. pp. xv + 444, 129 figs, map. London: HMSO.
SAG Cultures
No records have been found on the SAG site.
NCBI Nucleotide Sequences
No sequences have been found on the NCBI site.
Created: 17 May 1996 by M.D. Guiry
Verified by: 06 October 2004 by Wendy Guiry
Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 1032 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.)
Rojas-Gonzalez, B. & Afonso-Carrillo, J. (2002). Morfología y distribución de Lophosiphonia cristata y L. reptabunda en las islas Canarias (Rhodophyta, Rhodomelaceae). Vieraea 30: 31-44.
