Carpomitra costata (Stackhouse) Batters
Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Chromista
Subkingdom Chromobiota
Infrakingdom Heterokonta
Phylum Heterokontophycophyta
Class Phaeophyceae
Order Sporochnales
Family Sporochnaceae
Genus Carpomitra
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subtidal (-22m), Spain, Galicia, Coruña, 2007. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara.

subtidal (-25 m), Ría de A Coruña, Galicia, Spain, 200. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara.

subtidal (-25m), Ría de A Coruña, Galicia, Spain, 200. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara.

subtidal (-17m), Spain, Galicia, Muros, 2007. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara.

apical hairs,microscope, Spain, Galicia, Ferrol, 2007. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara.

microscope, Spain, Galicia, Coruña, 2007. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara.
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microscope, Spain, Galicia, Coruña, 2007. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara.

microscope, Spain, Galicia, Coruña, 2007. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara.

microscope, Spain, Galicia, Coruña, 2007. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara.
Carpomitra costata (Stackhouse) Batters microscope, Spain, Galicia, Coruña, 2007
Publication details
Carpomitra costata (Stackhouse) Batters 1902: 46
Original publication: Batters, E.A.L. (1902). A catalogue of the British marine algae. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign 40(Supplement): 1-107.
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Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Carpomitra is Carpomitra cabrerae (Clemente) Kützing.
Status of name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Basionym
Fucus costatus Stackhouse
Type information
Type locality: Fowey, Cornwall, England (Womersley 1987: 270). Type: Rashleigh; LINN (Womersley 1987: 270).
Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), ribbed, having one or more primary veins or ridges (Stearn 1973).
Homotypic Synonym(s)
Fucus costatus Stackhouse 1801
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Fucus cabrerae Clemente 1807
Carpomitra cabrerae (Clemente) Kützing 1843
Carpomitra luxurians W.R.Taylor 1945
General environment
This is a marine species.
Detailed distribution with sources
(as Fucus cabrerae Clemente)
Europe: Spain (Roxas Clemente y Rubio 1807).
(as Carpomitra cabrerae (Clemente) Kützing)
Europe: Adriatic (Ercegović 1980), Balearic Islands (Rodríguez y Femenías 1889, Buen 1906), Spain (Seoane-Camba 1965).
Asia: Japan (Yoshida, Nakajima & Nakata 1990).
(as Carpomitra costata (Stackhouse) Batters)
Ireland: Antrim (Morton 1994), Clare (De Valéra et al. 1979), Cork (Guiry 1978), Donegal (Maggs & Guiry 1982, Morton 2003), Galway (De Valéra et al. 1979).
Europe: Adriatic (Giaccone 1978, Ribera et al. 1992), Britain (Newton 1931, Hiscock & Maggs 1984, Fletcher 1987, Hardy & Guiry 2003), Corsica (Rodríguez Prieto, Boudouresque & Marcot-Coqueugniot 1993), France (Feldmann 1954, Dizerbo & Herpe 2007, Loiseaux-de Goër & Noailles 2008), Ireland (Newton 1931, Guiry 1978, De Valéra et al. 1979, Fletcher 1987, Morton 1994), Italy (Ribera et al. 1992, Rindi, Sartoni & Cinelli 2002), Spain (Ballesteros 1984, Pérez-Cirera, Cremades & Bárbara 1989, Granja, Cremades & Barbara 1992, Flores-Moya et al. 1995, Bárbara & Cremades 1996, Báez, Conde & Flores-Moya 2001, Hardy & Guiry 2003, Gorostiaga et al., 2004, Pérez-Cirera 2004, Bárbara et al. 2005, Bárbara et al. 2005).
Atlantic Islands: Azores (Neto 1994, Tittley & Neto 1994), Canary Islands (Ballesteros, Sansón, Reyes, Afonso-Carrillo & Gil-Rodríguez 1992, Haroun et al. 2002, Gil-Rodríguez et al. 2003, John et al. 2004).
Central America: México (Pacific) (Pedroche et al. 2008).
Africa: Algeria (Ribera et al. 1992), South Africa (Stegenga, Bolton & Anderson 1997).
Asia: Japan (Yoshida 1998, Sasaki et al. 2001), Korea (Lee & Kang 2001, Cho, Lee & Boo 2004, Lee 2008).
Australia and New Zealand: New South Wales (Womersley 1987), New Zealand (Adams 1994, Nelson & Phillips 1996, Adams 1997), South Australia (Womersley 1987), Tasmania (Womersley 1987), Victoria (Womersley 1987, Shepherd et al. 2009).
(as Carpomitra luxurians W.R.Taylor)
South America: Galápagos Islands (Taylor 1945).
Key references
Fletcher, R.L. (1987). Seaweeds of the British Isles. Vol. 3. Fucophyceae (Phaeophyceae). Part 1. pp. i-x, 1359, 90 figs, 15 pls. London: British Museum (Natural History).
Loiseaux-de Goër, S. & Noailles, M.-C. (2008). Algues de Roscoff. pp. [1]-215, col. figs. Roscoff: Editions de la Station Biologique de Roscoff.
Pedroche, P.F., Silva, P.C., Aguilar Rosas, L.E., Dreckmann, K.M. & Aguilar Rosas, R. (2008). Catálogo de las algas benthónicas del Pacífico de México II. Phaeophycota. pp. [i-viii], i-vi, 15-146. Mexicali & Berkeley: Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana and University of California Berkeley.
Womersley, H.B.S. (1987). The marine benthic flora of southern Australia. Part II. pp. 481, 169 figs, 1 table, 8 plates, 4 maps. Adelaide: South Australian Government Printing Division.
SAG Cultures
No records have been found on the SAG site.
NCBI Nucleotide Sequences
KU-MACC Cultures
Strain Numbers: KU-1158, KU-1159, Carpomitra costata
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Created: 31 March 1996 by M.D. Guiry
Verified by: 12 March 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.)

