Odonthalia floccosa (Esper) Falkenberg
Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Rhodophyta
Subphylum Eurhodophytina
Class Florideophyceae
Subclass Rhodymeniophycidae
Order Ceramiales
Family Rhodomelaceae
Genus Odonthalia
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Northern California. 09 Mar 2011. Wendell Wood (ww@oregonwild.org). © Wendell Wood (ww@oregonwild.org).
Northern California. 09 Mar 2011. Wendell Wood (ww@oregonwild.org). © Wendell Wood (ww@oregonwild.org).
Northern California. 09 Mar 2011. Wendell Wood (ww@oregonwild.org). © Wendell Wood (ww@oregonwild.org).
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Colin Bates (colinba@interchange.ubc.ca). © Coastal Imageworks (colinba@interchange.ubc.ca).
Cape Perpetua Oregon, U.S.A.; lower intertidal. 15 Jun 2003. Michael Guiry. © Michael Guiry (mike.guiry@nuigalway.ie).
Cape Perpetua Oregon, U.S.A.; lower intertidal. 15 Jun 2003. Michael Guiry. © Michael Guiry (mike.guiry@nuigalway.ie).
False Klamath Cove, Del Norte County, California, USA; from mid intertidal pools, with Soranthera ulvoidea growing as an ephiphyte. 04 May 2007. Courtnay Hermann. © Courtnay Janiak (theseaweedknot@hotmail.com).
Publication details
Odonthalia floccosa (Esper) Falkenberg 1901: 607
Original publication: Falkenberg, P. (1901). Die Rhodomelaceen des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeres-Abschnitte. Fauna und Flora des Golfes von Neapel, Monographie 26. pp. i-xvi, 1-754, 10 figs, 24 pls. Berlin.
Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Odonthalia is Odonthalia dentata (Linnaeus) Lyngbye.
Status of name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Basionym
Fucus floccosus Esper
Type information
Type locality: Trinidad, Humboldt Co., California, U.S.A. (Silva 1979: 330). Notes: Original description has "Nootkasund".
Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), woolly.
Homotypic Synonym(s)
Fucus floccosus Esper 1802
Rhodomela floccosa (Esper) C.Agardh 1822
Bostrychia floccosa (Esper) Montagne 1842
Lophura floccosa (Esper) Kützing 1843
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Rhodomela aleutica C.Agardh 1820
Odonthalia aleutica (C.Agardh) J.Agardh 1841
Lophura macracantha Kützing 1865
Odonthalia floccosa f. macracantha (Kützing) Setchell & N.L.Gardner 1903
Odonthalia floccosa f. typica Setchell & Gardner 1903
General environment
This is a marine species.
Distribution by country
Detailed distribution with sources
(as Odonthalia aleutica (C.Agardh) J.Agardh)
Asia: Japan (Segawa 1981).
(as Odonthalia floccosa (Esper) Falkenberg)
North America: Alaska (Lindstrom 1977, Scagel et al. 1989, Lindeberg & Lindstrom 2010), Aleutian Islands (Mondragon & Mondragon 2003), British Columbia (Scagel et al. 1989), California (Abbott & Hollenberg 1976, Silva 1979, Scagel et al. 1989, Mondragon & Mondragon 2003 
, Zuccarello, Moon & Goff 2004, Miller 2012), Oregon (Hansen 1997, Bracken 2004), Washington (Scagel et al. 1989, Murru & Sandgren 2004).
Asia: Bering Sea (Mondragon & Mondragon 2003), Commander Islands (Selivanova & Zhigadlova 1997).
Key references
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.
Smith, G.M. (1944). Marine algae of the Monterey Peninsula. pp. i-ix, 1-622, 98 pls. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Wynne, M.J. (2010). Early collections of benthic marine algae from Cape Mendicino, California, made by Cyrus S.Pringle, and notes on their present nomenclature. Nova Hedwigia 91(1-2): 33-48.
Zuccarello, G.C., Moon, D. & Goff, L.J. (2004). A phylogenetic study of parasitic genera placed in the family Choreocolacaceae (Rhodophyta). Journal of Phycology 40: 937-945, 2 figs, 2 tables.
SAG Cultures
SAG Cultures may be viewed at http://sagdb.uni-goettingen.de/showstrains.php?genus=Odonthalia&species=floccosa
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=Odonthalia&Species=floccosa
Created: 14 April 1998 by M.D. Guiry
Verified by: 28 October 2010 by M.D. Guiry
Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 1722 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.)
Goff, L.J. & Cole, K. (1973). The biology of Harveyella mirabilis (Cryptonemiales, Rhodophyceae) I. Cytological investigations of Harveyella mirabilis and its host, Odonthalia floccosa. Phycologia 12: 237-245.
Goff, L.J. & Cole, K. (1976). The biology of Harveyella mirabilis (Cryptonemiales, Rhodophyceae). III. Spore germination and subsequent development within the host Odonthalia floccosa (Ceramiales, Rhodophyceae). Canadian Journal of Botany 54: 268-280.
Masuda, M., Uwal, S. & Kogame, K. (1998). Developmental morphology of Odonthalia floccosa (Ceramiales, Rhodophyta) in laboratory culture. Phycological Research 46: 239-251, 36 figs, 1 table.
Ruesink, J.L. (1998). Diatoms epiphytes on Odonthalia floccosa: the importance of extent and timing. Journal of Phycology 34: 29-38, 10 figs, 3 tables.
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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 18 June 2013.
Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:72785
