Acrochaetium parvulum (Kylin) Hoyt
Publication details
Acrochaetium parvulum (Kylin) Hoyt 1920: 470, fig. 25
Original publication: Hoyt, W.D. (1920). Marine algae of Beaufort, N.C., and adjacent regions. Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Fisheries 36: 367-556, I-V (index), 47 figs, 9 tables, Plates LXXXIV-CXIX, 3 maps.
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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 parvula Kylin
Type information
Lectotype locality: Väderöarna, Kristineberg, Halland (Athanasiadis 1996: 19). Lectotype: the original illustration of Kylin (1906, fig. 9), in the absence of material. (epitype) (Dixon & Irvine 1977: 105).
Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), very small (Stearn 1973).
Homotypic Synonym(s)
Chantransia parvula Kylin 1906
Chantransia hallandica var. parvula (Kylin) Rosenvinge 1909
Rhodochorton parvulum (Kylin) Drew 1928
Kylinia parvula (Kylin) Kylin 1944
Chromastrum parvulum (Kylin) Papenfuss 1945
Audouinella parvula (Kylin) 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 parvula Kylin)
Europe: Sweden (Kylin 1907).
(as Acrochaetium parvulum (Kylin) Hoyt)
Arctic: Canada (Arctic) (Lee 1980), Svalbard (Hop et al. 2012).
Europe: Baltic Sea (Nielsen et al. 1995), Britain (Hardy & Guiry 2003), France (Anon. 2012), Ireland (Guiry 2012), Romania (Caraus 2002, Caraus 2012), Scandinavia (Athanasiadis 1996), Spain (Bárbara & Cremades 1996, Bárbara et al. 2005), Turkey (Europe) (Taskin et al. 2008).
Atlantic Islands: Canary Islands (Gil-Rodríguez & Afonso-Carrillo 1980, Haroun et al. 2002, Gil-Rodríguez et al. 2003, John et al. 2004, Anon 2011), E. Greenland (Lund 1959), Iceland (Caram & Jónsson 1972), Madeira (Levring 1974, Neto, Cravo & Haroun 2001, John et al. 2004).
Africa: Cameroon (John, Lawson & Ameka, 2003, John et al. 2004), Mauritania (John et al. 2004).
South-west Asia: Turkey (Asia) (Taskin et al. 2008).
Asia: China (Zeng 2009), Russia (Perestenko 1994).
(as Kylinia parvula (Kylin) Kylin)
Europe: Sweden (Kylin 1944).
(as Chromastrum parvulum (Kylin) Papenfuss)
Europe: Bulgaria (Dimitrova-Konaklieva 1981).
(as Audouinella parvula (Kylin) P.S.Dixon)
Ireland: Clare (De Valéra et al. 1979), Galway (Dixon & Irvine 1977, Pybus 1977, Guiry 1978).
Europe: Baltic Sea (Nielsen et al. 1995), Britain (Dixon & Irvine 1977, Guiry 1997), France (Báez et al 2005a, Dizerbo & Herpe 2007), Ireland (Pybus 1977, Dixon & Irvine 1977, Guiry 1978, De Valéra et al. 1979), Italy (Furnari et al. 2003, Báez et al 2005a), Spain (Ballesteros 1983, Boisset & Barceló 1984, Gallardo et al. 1985, Soto & Conde 1989, Rull Lluch & Gómez Garreta 1990, Ballesteros 1990, Conde et al. 1996, Báez et al 2005a), Spitsbergen (Vinogradova 1995).
Atlantic Islands: Canary Islands (Price, John & Lawson 1986).
Africa: Algeria (Báez et al 2005a), Cameroon (Lawson & John 1987), Morocco (Báez et al 2005a).
Taxonomic notes
Placed in Acrochaetium by Nielsen et al. (1995).
Key references
Garbary, D.J. (1987). The Acrochaetiaceae (Rhodophyta): an annotated bibliography. Bibliotheca Phycologica 77: 1-267, 2 tables.
Zeng, C. (Tseng, C.K.), Luan, R., Chen, Z. & Li, W. (2005). Flora algarum marinarum sinicarum Tomus II Rhodophyta No. II Acrochaetiales Nemaliales Bonnemaisoniales. pp. [i-vii], i-xxiii, 1-180 , pls I-VIII. Beijing: Science Press.
SAG Cultures
SAG Cultures may be viewed at http://sagdb.uni-goettingen.de/showstrains.php?genus=Acrochaetium&species=parvulum
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=parvulum
Created: 28 June 1996 by M.D. Guiry
Verified by: 29 May 2009 by M.D. Guiry
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References
(Please note: only references with the binomials in the title are included. The information is from the Literature database.)
Abdel-Rahman, M.H. (1984). Le cycle de développement de l'Acrochaetium parvulum (Rhodophycée, Acrochaetiales).. Cryptogamie, Algologie 5: 1-13.
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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 20 June 2013.
Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:76983
