Acrochaetium endozoicum (Darbishire) Batters
Publication details
Acrochaetium endozoicum (Darbishire) Batters 1902: 58
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 (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 endozoica Darbishire
Type information
Type locality: Valencia an der Südküste von Irland, actually Valentia, Co. Kerry, Ireland, where the animal host, Alcyonidium gelatinosus was collected by F.E. Weiss. (Darbishire 1899: 13).
Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), growing in animals.
Homotypic Synonym(s)
Chantransia endozoica Darbishire 1899
Rhodochorton endozoicum (Darbishire) Drew 1928
Audouinella endozoica (Darbishire) P.S.Dixon 1976
General environment
This is a marine species.
Distribution by country
Point data for Ireland and Britain
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(as Chantransia endozoica Darbishire)
Ireland: Mayo (Cotton 1912).
Europe: Ireland (Cotton 1912).
(as Acrochaetium endozoicum (Darbishire) Batters)
Europe: Britain (Newton 1931, Hardy & Guiry 2003), France (Feldmann 1954, Anon. 2012), Ireland (Guiry 2012).
Africa: Senegal (John et al. 2004).
(as Audouinella endozoica (Darbishire) P.S.Dixon)
Ireland: Donegal (Guiry 1978), Kerry (Guiry 1978), Mayo (Guiry 1978).
Europe: Britain (Dixon & Irvine 1977, Guiry 1997), France (Dizerbo & Herpe 2007), Ireland (Guiry 1978), Scandinavia (Athanasiadis 1996), Spain (Conde & Soto 1986, Conde et al. 1996, Báez et al 2005a, Báez et al. 2005b).
Africa: Ghana (Price, John & Lawson 1986), Morocco (Báez et al. 2005b), South Africa (Stegenga, Bolton & Anderson 1997).
Key references
Dixon, P.S. & Irvine, L.M. (1977). Seaweeds of the British Isles. Volume 1. Rhodophyta. Part 1. Introduction, Nemaliales, Gigartinales. pp. [i]v-xi, [1]4-252, 90 figs. London: British Museum (Natural History).
Garbary, D.J. (1987). The Acrochaetiaceae (Rhodophyta): an annotated bibliography. Bibliotheca Phycologica 77: 1-267, 2 tables.
SAG Cultures
SAG Cultures may be viewed at http://sagdb.uni-goettingen.de/showstrains.php?genus=Acrochaetium&species=endozoicum
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=endozoicum
Created: 28 June 1996 by M.D. Guiry
Verified by: 15 February 2011 by M.D. Guiry
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Citing AlgaeBase
Cite this record as:
M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2013.
AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org; searched on 19 June 2013.
Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:76987
