Acrochaetium attenuatum (Rosenvinge) G.Hamel

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 attenuatum (Rosenvinge) G.Hamel 1927: 99

Original publication: Hamel, G.. (1927). Recherches sur les genres Acrochaetium Naeg. et Rhodochorton Naeg. Published Ph.D. thesis. pp. i-v, 1-117. Saint-Lô: Imprimerie R. Jaqueline, rue des Images, 23.
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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 attenuata Rosenvinge

Type information
Type locality: Limfjorden, Denmark (Athanasiadis 1996: 26). Type: on Desmarestia aculeata. C?

Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), attenuate (Stearn 1973).

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Chantransia attenuata Rosenvinge 1909
Rhodochorton attenuatum (Rosenvinge) Nakamura 1944
Audouinella attenuata (Rosenvinge) Garbary 1979

General environment
This is a marine species.

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Chantransia attenuata Rosenvinge)
Europe: Denmark (Rosenvinge 1909).

(as Acrochaetium attenuatum (Rosenvinge) G.Hamel)
North America: Massachusetts (Jao 1936, Taylor 1957).

(as Audouinella attenuata (Rosenvinge) Garbary)
Europe: Britain (Guiry 1997).

Asia: China (Zeng 2009), Japan (Yoshida 1998), Korea (Lee & Kang 2001).

Taxonomic notes
Placed in Colaconema by Nielsen et al. (1995). According to Garbary, 1987, this is a synonym of Audouinella attenuata (Rosenvinge) Garbary, 1979.

Key references
Garbary, D.J. (1987). The Acrochaetiaceae (Rhodophyta): an annotated bibliography. Bibliotheca Phycologica 77: 1-267, 2 tables.

Jao, C.-C. (1936). New Rhodophyceae from Woods Hole. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 63: 237-257, pls 10-13.

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

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=attenuatum

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 28 July 1996 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 02 August 2007 by Wendy Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 474 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 19 June 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:76938