Caulerpa racemosa var. cylindracea (Sonder) Verlaque, Huisman & Boudouresque
Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Subkingdom Viridaeplantae
Phylum Chlorophyta
Class Bryopsidophyceae
Order Bryopsidales
Family Caulerpaceae
Genus Caulerpa
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Publication details
Caulerpa racemosa var. cylindracea (Sonder) Verlaque, Huisman & Boudouresque 2003: 336
Original publication: Verlaque, M., Durand, C., Huisman, J.M., Boudouresque, C-F., & Le Parco, Y. (2003). On the identity and origin of the Mediterranean invasive Caulerpa racemosa (Caulerpales, Chlorophyta). European Journal of Phycology 38: 325-339.
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Type species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Caulerpa is Caulerpa prolifera (Forsskål) J.V.Lamouroux.
Status of name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Basionym
Caulerpa cylindracea Sonder
Type information
Type locality: Western Australia (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996: 830). Type: Preiss; MEL 516014 (Womersley 1984: 270).
Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), with flowers borne in racemes.
Homotypic Synonym(s)
Caulerpa cylindracea Sonder 1845
Ahnfeldtia cylindracea (Sonder) Trevisan 1849
Chauvinia cylindracea (Sonder) Kützing 1849
Caulerpa racemosa var. laetevirens f. cylindracea (Sonder) Weber-van Bosse 1898
General environment
This is a Marine species.
Usage notes
Verlaque et al. (2003) provided evidence that this is the correct name for the entity that has aggressively spreaded throughout the Mediterranean Sea since the early 1990s.
Detailed distribution with sources
(as Caulerpa racemosa var. laetevirens f. cylindracea (Sonder) Weber-van Bosse)
North America: Isla Guadalupe (Setchell & Gardner 1930).
Central America: México (Pacific) (Pedroche et al. 2005).
Africa: Kenya (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996).
South-west Asia: India (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Sri Lanka (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996).
Australia and New Zealand: Queensland (Lewis 1987), South Australia (Womersley 2003), Western Australia (Womersley 1984, Huisman & Walker 1990, Huisman 2000).
(as Caulerpa racemosa var. cylindracea (Sonder) Verlaque, Huisman & Boudouresque)
Europe: Albania (Piazzi et al. 2005), Balearic Islands (Piazzi et al. 2005), Corsica (Piazzi et al. 2005), Crete (Piazzi et al. 2005), Croatia (Piazzi et al. 2005), France (Piazzi et al. 2005, Capiomont et al. 2005), Greece (Piazzi et al. 2005, Tsirika & Haritonidis 2005), Italy (Piazzi et al. 2005, Flagella et al.2008), Malta (Piazzi et al. 2005), Sardinia (Piazzi et al. 2005), Spain (Piazzi et al. 2005).
Atlantic Islands: Canary Islands (Moreira-Reyes et al 2003, Hernández-González et al. 2004a, Hernández-González et al. 2004b, Moreira-Reyes, Soler-Onís & Gil-Rodríguez 2005, Moreira-Reyes et al. 2006, Gil-Rodríguez et al. 2007).
Africa: Libya (Piazzi et al. 2005), Tunisia (Piazzi et al. 2005).
South-west Asia: Cyprus (Piazzi et al. 2005), Turkey (Asia) (Piazzi et al. 2005).
Key references
Capiomont, A., Breugnot, E., den Haan, M. & Meinesz, A. (2005). Phenology of a deep-water population of Caulerpa racemosa var. cylindracea in the northwestern Mediterranean Sea. Botanica Marina 48: 80-83.
Piazzi, L., Meinesz, A., Verlaque, M., Açali, B., Antolic, B., Argyrou, M., Baltana, D., Ballesteros, E., Calvo, S., Cinelli, F., Cirik, S., Cossu, A., d'Archino, R., Djellouli, A.S., Javel, F., Lanfranco, E., Mifsud, C., Pala, D., Panayotidis, P., Peirano, A., Pergent, G., Petrocelli, A., Ruitton, S., Zuljevic, A. & Ceccherelli, G. (2005). Invasion of Caulerpa racemosa var. cylindracea (Caulerpales, Chlorophyta) in the Mediterranean Sea: an assessment of the spread. Cryptogamie, Algologie 26: 189-202.
NCBI Nucleotide Sequences
Created: 21 February 2004 by Fabio Rindi
Verified by: 10 August 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.)
Capiomont, A., Breugnot, E., den Haan, M. & Meinesz, A. (2005). Phenology of a deep-water population of Caulerpa racemosa var. cylindracea in the northwestern Mediterranean Sea. Botanica Marina 48: 80-83.
Ceccherelli, G. & Piazzi, L. (2005). Exploring the success of manual eradication of Caulerpa racemosa var. cylindracea (Caulerpales, Chlorophyta): the effect of habitat. Cryptogamie 26: 319-328.
Flagella, M.M., Lorenti, M. & Buia, M.C. (2008). Temperature response in a shallow-water Mediterranean population of Caulerpa racemosa var. cylindracea (Caulerpales, Chlorophyta), and a possible strategy of season anticipation. Botanica Marina 51(4): 278-277.
Moreira-Reyes, A. & Gil-Rodríguez, M.C. (2008). Variaciones espaciales y temporales de Caulerpa racemosa var. cylindracea (Chlorophycota) en Los Cristianos e Igueste de San Andrés, Tenerife, Islas Canarias. Vieraea 36: 91-102.
Piazzi, L., Meinesz, A., Verlaque, M., Açali, B., Antolic, B., Argyrou, M., Baltana, D., Ballesteros, E., Calvo, S., Cinelli, F., Cirik, S., Cossu, A., d'Archino, R., Djellouli, A.S., Javel, F., Lanfranco, E., Mifsud, C., Pala, D., Panayotidis, P., Peirano, A., Pergent, G., Petrocelli, A., Ruitton, S., Zuljevic, A. & Ceccherelli, G. (2005). Invasion of Caulerpa racemosa var. cylindracea (Caulerpales, Chlorophyta) in the Mediterranean Sea: an assessment of the spread. Cryptogamie, Algologie 26: 189-202.
Verlaque, M., Afonso-Carillo, J., Gil-Rodríguez, M.C., Durand, C., Boudouresque, C.F. & Le Parco, Y. 2004 (2004). Blitzkrieg in a marine invasion: Caulerpa racemosa var. cylindracea (Bryopsidales, Chlorophyta) reaches the Canary Islands (north-east Atlantic). Biological Invasions 6: 269-281.
