Parvocaulis pusillus (M.Howe) S.Berger, U.Fettweiss, S.Gleissberg, L.B.Liddle, U.Richter, H.Sawitzky & G.C.Zuccarello
Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Chlorophyta
Class Ulvophyceae
Order Dasycladales
Family Polyphysaceae
Genus Parvocaulis
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Three cells, two with gametangia.
Photo-Atlas of living Dasycladales. Sigrid Berger. © Sigrid Berger (sberger@spup.de).
Publication details
Parvocaulis pusillus (M.Howe) S.Berger, U.Fettweiss, S.Gleissberg, L.B.Liddle, U.Richter, H.Sawitzky & G.C.Zuccarello 2003: 560, figs 15, 29, 35
Original publication: Berger, S., Fettweiss, U., Gleissberg, S., Liddle, L.B., Richter, U., Sawitzky, H. & Zuccarello, G.C. (2003). 18S rDNA phylogeny and evaluation of cap development in Polyphysaceae (formerly Acetabulariaceae; Dasyladales, Chlorophyta). Phycologia 42: 506-561.
Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Parvocaulis is Parvocaulis parvulus (Solms-Laubach) S.Berger, U.Fettweiss, S.Gleissberg, L.B.Liddle, U.Richter, H.Sawitzky & G.C.Zuccarello.
Status of name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Basionym
Acetabulum pusillum M.Howe
Type information
Type locality: Montego Bay, Jamaica (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996: 894).
Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), very small (Stearn 1973).
Homotypic Synonym(s)
Acetabularia pusilla (M.A.Howe) F.S.Collins 1909
Acetabulum pusillum M.Howe 1909
Polyphysa pusilla (M.A.Howe) E.Sosa 1985
Polyphysa pusilla (M.Howe) S.Berger & Kaever 1992
General environment
This is a Marine species.
Distribution by country
Detailed distribution with sources
(as Acetabularia pusilla (M.A.Howe) F.S.Collins)
North America: Florida (Taylor 1960).
Central America: México (Pacific) (Pedroche et al. 2005), Panama (Wysor 2004, Fernández-García et al. 2011).
Caribbean Islands: Bahamas (Taylor 1960), Caribbean (Littler & Littler 2000), Jamaica (Taylor 1960), Lesser Antilles (Taylor 1969).
South America: Venezuela (Ganesan 1990).
Africa: Liberia (Lawson & John 1987, John, Lawson & Ameka, 2003, John et al. 2004).
Indian Ocean Islands: Aldabra Islands (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Seychelles (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996).
Asia: Japan (Titlyanov et al 2006).
South-east Asia: Vietnam (Pham-Hoàng 1969, Tien 2007).
(as Acetabulum pusillum M.Howe)
North America: Florida (Taylor 1928).
(as Polyphysa pusilla (M.Howe) S.Berger & Kaever)
North America: Mexico (Berger et al. 2003).
(as Parvocaulis pusillus (M.Howe) S.Berger, U.Fettweiss, S.Gleissberg, L.B.Liddle, U.Richter, H.Sawitzky & G.C.Zuccarello)
Caribbean Islands: Cuba (Suárez 2005).
Western Atlantic: Trop. & Subtrop. W. Atlantic (Wynne 2011).
South America: Brazil (Moura 2010).
Asia: China (Titlyanov et al. 2011).
Key references
Dawes, C.J. & Mathieson, A.C. (2008). The seaweeds of Florida. pp. [i]- viii, [1]-591, [592], pls I-LI. Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida.
SAG Cultures
SAG Cultures may be viewed at http://sagdb.uni-goettingen.de/showstrains.php?genus=Parvocaulis&species=pusillus
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=Parvocaulis&Species=pusillus
Created: 21 October 2003 by M.D. Guiry
Verified by: 11 February 2013 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 25 May 2013.
Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:40476
