Acrochaetium tenuissimum (F.S.Collins) Papenfuss

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 tenuissimum (F.S.Collins) Papenfuss 1945: 319

Original publication: Papenfuss, G.F. (1945). Review of the Acrochaetium-Rhodochorton complex of the red algae. University of California Publications in Botany 18: 229-334.

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
Chantransia virgatula f. tenuissima F.S.Collins

Type information
Type locality: San Pedro, California, U.S.A. (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996: 101).

Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), very fine (Lewis & Short 1890).

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Chantransia virgatula f. tenuissima F.S.Collins 1900
Acrochaetium virgatulum f. tenuissima (Collins) Collins 1906
Rhodochorton tenuissimum (Collins) Drew 1928
Chantransia tenuissima (Collins) Kylin 1941
Colaconema tenuissimum (Collins) Woelkerling 1971
Audouinella tenuissima (Collins) Garbary 1979
Chromastrum tenuissimum (Collins) H.Stegenga & T.C.M.Kemperman 1983

General environment
This is a marine species.

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Acrochaetium tenuissimum (F.S.Collins) Papenfuss)
North America: California (Abbott & Hollenberg 1976, Miller 2012).

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

Africa: South Africa (Stegenga, Bolton & Anderson 1997).

(as Audouinella tenuissima (Collins) Garbary)
Asia: China (Zeng 2009).

Key references
Silva, P.C., Basson, P.W. & Moe, R.L. (1996). Catalogue of the benthic marine algae of the Indian Ocean. University of California Publications in Botany 79: 1-1259.

Womersley, H.B.S. (1994). The marine benthic flora of southern Australia - Part IIIA - Bangiophyceae and Florideophyceae (Acrochaetiales, Nemaliales, Gelidiales, Hildenbrandiales and Gigartinales sensu lato). pp. 1-508, 167 figs, 4 pls, 4 maps. Canberra: Australian Biological Resources Study.

Wynne, M.J. (2005). A check-list of benthic marine algae of the tropical and subtropical western Atlantic: second revision. Beihefte zur Nova Hedwigia 129: 1-152.

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

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=tenuissimum

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 26 April 1998 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 20 May 2009 by Wendy Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 862 times since it was created.

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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:72654