Polysiphonia nigra (Hudson) Batters

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Rhodophyta
Subphylum Eurhodophytina
Class Florideophyceae
Subclass Rhodymeniophycidae
Order Ceramiales
Family Rhodomelaceae
Tribe Polysiphonieae
Genus Polysiphonia

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

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

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

Polysiphonia nigra Cuan, Ventry Harbour, Co. Kerry, Ireland. 11 Aug 2010. M.D. Guiry. © Michael Guiry (mike.guiry@nuigalway.ie).

lower intertidal, North of Portugal, Montedor, 2007. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

Spain, Galicia, A Coruña, Seaya, 2003, tetrasporangia: microscope. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

Spain, Galicia, Lugo, San Ciprián, 2005, intertidal. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

Spain, Galicia, Ría de Vigo, 2005, intertidal. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

A Coruña, Seaya, 2003, microscope. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

Spain, Galicia, A Coruña, Ártabra, 2005, intertidal. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

Polysiphonia nigra (Hudson) Batters Spain, Galicia, Lugo, San Ciprián, 2005, intertidal

Publication details
Polysiphonia nigra (Hudson) Batters 1902: 81

Original publication: Batters, E.A.L. (1902). A catalogue of the British marine algae. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign 40(Supplement): 1-107.
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Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Polysiphonia is Polysiphonia urceolata (Lightfoot ex Dillwyn) Greville.

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

Basionym
Conferva nigra Hudson

Type information
Type locality: Marsden (Maggs & Hommersand 1993: 349). Neotype: P. Edwards; 12.vi.1971; BM (Maggs & Hommersand 1993: 349).

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Conferva nigra Hudson 1762

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Conferva badia Dillwyn 1809
Conferva atrorubescens Dillwyn 1809
Hutchinsia badia (Dillwyn) C.Agardh 1817
Hutchinsia atrorubescens (Dillwyn) C.Agardh 1817
Polysiphonia atrorubescens (Dillwyn) Greville 1824
Polysiphonia badia (Dillwyn) Sprengel 1827

General environment
This is a marine species.

Common names

(as Polysiphonia nigra (Hudson) Batters)
English: Twisted Siphon Weed (Bunker et al. 2010).

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Polysiphonia atrorubescens (Dillwyn) Greville)
Ireland: Dublin (Sanders 1860), Mayo (Cotton 1912), Wexford (Cotton 1913).

Europe: Ireland (Cotton 1912, Cotton 1913), Spain (Miranda 1931), Spitsbergen (Vinogradova 1995).

(as Polysiphonia nigra (Hudson) Batters)
Ireland: Antrim (Morton 1994), Clare (Pybus 1977, Guiry 1978, De Valéra et al. 1979, Maggs 1983, Choi, Kraft, Lee & Saunders 2002), Cork (Cullinane 1971, Guiry 1978, Cullinane, Egan & Whelan 1980), Donegal (Guiry 1978, Morton 2003), Down (Maggs & Hommersand 1993, Morton 1994), Dublin (Sanders 1860), Galway (Maggs 1983), Waterford (Guiry 1977, Guiry 1978).

Europe: Baltic Sea (Nielsen et al. 1995), Britain (Newton 1931, Maggs & Hommersand 1993, Hardy & Guiry 2003), Faroe Islands (Irvine 1982, Nielsen & Gunnarsson 2001), France (Feldmann 1954, Coppejans 1995, Dizerbo & Herpe 2007, Loiseaux-de Goër & Noailles 2008, Anon. 2012), Helgoland (Bartsch & Kuhlenkamp 2000), Ireland (Cullinane 1971, Guiry 1977, Pybus 1977, Guiry 1978, De Valéra et al. 1979, Maggs 1983, Maggs & Hommersand 1993, Morton 1994, Choi, Kraft, Lee & Saunders 2002, Guiry 2012), Netherlands (Stegenga & Mol 1983, Stegenga, Kaaremans & Simons 2007), Norway (Rueness 1997), Portugal (Ardré 1970, Araújo et al., 2003, Bárbara et al. 2006, Araujo et al. 2009, Araújo, Bárbara & Sousa-Pinto in press), Scandinavia (Athanasiadis 1996), Spain (Bárbara, Cremades & Pérez-Cirera 1995, Bárbara & Cremades 1996, Cremades, Bárbara, Granja & Veiga 1997, Veiga, Cremades & Bárbara 1998, Valenzuela Miranda 2002, Gorostiaga et al., 2004, Bárbara et al. 2005, Diaz-Tapia & Bárbara 2005, Martínez-Gil et al. 2007, Díaz et al 2008, Peña & Bárbara 2008, Cires Rodriguez & Cuesta Moliner 2010, Diaz Tapia et al. 2011, Bárbara et al. 2012).

Atlantic Islands: Azores (Neto 1994).

North America: New Hampshire (Mathieson & Hehre 1986).

Africa: Namibia (Rull Lluch 2002).

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

Maggs, C.A. & Hommersand, M.H. (1993). Seaweeds of the British Isles. Volume 1. Rhodophyta. Part 3A. Ceramiales. pp. [i]-xv, 1-444, 129 figs, map. London: HMSO.

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

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=Polysiphonia&Species=nigra

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 17 May 1996 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 20 November 2008 by M.D. Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 2336 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.)

Coppejans, E. (1981). Polysiphonia nigra (Huds.) Batt. et Antithamnion cruciatum (C. Ag.) Näg. var defectum Halos (Rhodophyta-Ceramiales) nouvelles pour la flore du Boulonnais (Pas-de-Calais; France). Dumortiera 21: 29-36.

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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 24 May 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:77015