Acrochaetium moniliforme (Rosenvinge) Børgesen
Publication details
Acrochaetium moniliforme (Rosenvinge) Børgesen 1915: 22
Original publication: Børgesen, F. (1915). The marine algae of the Danish West Indies. Part 3. Rhodophyceae (1). Dansk Botanisk Arkiv 3: 1-80, Figs 1-86.
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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 moniliformis Rosenvinge
Type information
Syntype localities: various in Denmark (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996: 100).
Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), moniliform, cylindrical but contracted at regular intervals like a string of beads (Stearn 1973).
Homotypic Synonym(s)
Chantransia moniliformis Rosenvinge 1909
Rhodochorton moniliforme (Rosenvinge) Drew 1928
Kylinia moniliformis (Rosenvinge) Kylin 1944
Chromastrum moniliforme (Rosenvinge) Papenfuss 1945
Audouinella moniliformis (Rosenvinge) Garbary 1979
General environment
This is a marine species.
Distribution by country
Detailed distribution with sources
(as Acrochaetium moniliforme (Rosenvinge) Børgesen)
Europe: Corsica (Boudouresque & Perret 1977), France (Feldmann 1939, Feldmann 1954, Anon. 2012), Scandinavia (Athanasiadis 1996), Spain (Conde et al. 1996), Turkey (Europe) (Taskin et al. 2008).
South America: Chile (Ramírez & Santelices 1991).
Africa: Namibia (Rull Lluch 2002, John et al. 2004), South Africa (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Stegenga, Bolton & Anderson 1997).
South-west Asia: Turkey (Asia) (Taskin et al. 2008).
Asia: Korea (Lee & Kang 2001), Russia (Perestenko 1980).
Pacific Islands: Easter Island (Børgesen 1924, Santelices & Abbott 1987).
(as Kylinia moniliformis (Rosenvinge) Kylin)
Europe: Sweden (Kylin 1944).
North America: Massachusetts (Taylor 1957).
(as Chromastrum moniliforme (Rosenvinge) Papenfuss)
South-west Asia: Israel (Papenfuss 1968 
).
(as Audouinella moniliformis (Rosenvinge) Garbary)
Europe: Balearic Islands (Ribera Siguán 1983, Ribera Siguán & Gómez Garreta 1984, Báez et al 2005a, Báez et al. 2005b), France (Guiry 1997, Báez et al 2005a, Báez et al. 2005b, Dizerbo & Herpe 2007), Italy (Furnari et al. 2003, Furnari et al. 2003, Báez et al 2005a, Báez et al. 2005b), Sardinia (Furnari et al. 2003), Spain (Gallardo et al. 1985, Soto & Conde 1989, Conde et al. 1996, Báez et al 2005a, Báez et al. 2005b).
Africa: Algeria (Báez et al. 2005b), Morocco (Báez et al 2005a, Báez et al. 2005b), Tunisia (Báez et al. 2005b).
Taxonomic notes
May be conspecific with Audouinella microscopica (Woelkerling 1973), but see Stegenga & Mulder (1979). 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.
Klochkova, N.G., Korolyova, T.N. & Kusidi, A.E. (2009). [Atlas of marine algae of Kamchatka and surrounding areas. Vol. 2. Red seaweeds]. pp. 1-301. Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky: KamchatNIRO Press.
SAG Cultures
SAG Cultures may be viewed at http://sagdb.uni-goettingen.de/showstrains.php?genus=Acrochaetium&species=moniliforme
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=moniliforme
Created: 29 July 1996 by M.D. Guiry
Verified by: 12 January 2012 by M.D. Guiry
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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2013.
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Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:76912
