Acrochaetium caespitosum (J.Agardh) Nägeli

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 caespitosum (J.Agardh) Nägeli 1862: 405, 412

Original publication: Nägeli, C. (1862 '1861'). Beiträge zur morphologie und systematik der Ceramiaceae. Sitzungsberichte der Königlichen Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu München 1861(2): 297-415, 30 figs, 1 pl.
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Type species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Acrochaetium is Acrochaetium secundatum (Lyngbye) Nägeli.

Status of name
This name is currently regarded as a taxonomic synonym of Colaconema caespitosum (J.Agardh) Jackelman, Stegenga & J.J.Bolton

Basionym
Callithamnion caespitosum J.Agardh

Type information
Type locality: Brest (Athanasiadis 1996: 26). Lectotype: LD Agardh No. 18011 (Womersley 1994: 56).

Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), growing in patches or tufts, caespitose (Stearn 1973).

Synonym(s)
No synonyms are currently included in AlgaeBase.

General environment
This is a marine species.

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Acrochaetium caespitosum (J.Agardh) Nägeli)
Europe: Spain (Valenzuela Miranda 2002).

Australia and New Zealand: Australia (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996).

Taxonomic notes
May be the same as Audouinella botryocarpa and A. codii (Stegenga & Erp 1979). See also Acrochaetium codicola.

Key references
Harper, J.T. & Saunders, G.W. (2002). A re-classification of the Acrochaetiales based on molecular and morphological data, and establishment of the Colaconematales, ord. nov.. British Phycological Journal 37: 463-475.

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

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=caespitosum

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 28 June 1996 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 21 May 2009 by Wendy Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 628 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.)

Dangeard, P. (1929). Sur les chromatophores de l'Acrochaetium caespitosum Naegeli. Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France 76: 1043-1048.

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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 19 May 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: No taxonomy record found for this level.