Mychodea hamata Harvey

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Rhodophyta
Subphylum Eurhodophytina
Class Florideophyceae
Subclass Rhodymeniophycidae
Order Gigartinales
Family Mychodeaceae
Genus Mychodea

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Publication details
Mychodea hamata Harvey 1860: 323

Type species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Mychodea is Mychodea carnosa J.D.Hooker & Harvey.

Status of name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Acanthococcus ewingii Harvey 1860
Acanthococcus obtusangulus Harvey 1863
Gigartina cincinnalis Zanardini 1874
Mychodea obtusangula (Harvey) J.Agardh 1897
Mychodea linearis J.Agardh 1899

General environment
This is a marine species.

Habitat
From permanent tide pools and from just below the lowest tide levels down to depths of 17 m; usually epiphytic on algae such as Gelidium australe and Melanema dumosa or on the seagrass Amphibolis, but occasionally grow directly on jetty pilings (Kraft 1978: 547).

Type information
Type locality: Port Arthur, Tasmania (Kraft & Womersley 1994: 458). Lectotype: Harvey; March 1855; Herb. Harvey, TCD Alg. Aust. Exsicc. 415K (Kraft & Womersley 1994: 458).

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Mychodea hamata Harvey)
Australia and New Zealand: South Australia (Kraft & Womersley 1994, N'Yeurt et al 2006), Tasmania (Kraft & Womersley 1994), Victoria (Kraft & Womersley 1994).

(as Gigartina cincinnalis Zanardini)
Australia and New Zealand: Victoria (Zanardini 1874).

Key references
Kraft, G.T. & Womersley, H.B.S. (1994). Family Mychodeaceae Kylin 1932: 62. In: The marine benthic flora of southern Australia. Rhodophyta - Part IIIA. (Womersley, H.B.S. Eds), pp. 450-470. Canberra:

Kraft, G.T. (1978). Studies of marine algae in the lesser-known families of the Gigartinales (Rhodophyta). III. The Mychodeaceae and Mychodeophyllaceae. Australian Journal of Botany 26: 515-610, 46 figs.

N'Yeurt, A.D.R., Payri, C.E., Gabrielson, P.W. & Fredericq, S. (2006). Pinnatiphycus menouana gen. et sp. nov. (Rhodophyta: Dicranemataceae) from New Caledonia and Fiji (South Pacific): vegetative and reproductive morphology and molecular phylogeny. Phycologia 45: 422-431.

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

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=Mychodea&Species=hamata

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 06 May 2003 by Wendy Guiry

Verified by: 30 July 2009 by Wendy Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 309 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 May 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:41894