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Titanoderma trochanter (Bory de Saint-Vincent) Benhissoune, Boudouresque, Perret-Boudouresque & Verlaque

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Rhodophyta
Subphylum Eurhodophytina
Class Florideophyceae
Subclass Corallinophycidae
Order Corallinales
Family Corallinaceae
Subfamily Lithophylloideae
Genus Titanoderma

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Mirella Coppola di Canzano. © Mirella Coppola di Canzano (mirella.coppoladicanzano@fastwebnet.it). From: Bressan, G. & Babbini, L. (2003). Biodiversità marina delle coste Italiane: Corallinales del Mar Mediterraneo: guida all deteminazione. Biologia Marina Mediterranea 10(Suppl. 2): 1-237.

Titanoderma trochanter (Bory de Saint-Vincent) Benhissoune, Boudouresque, Perret-Boudouresque & Verlaque

Publication details
Titanoderma trochanter (Bory de Saint-Vincent) Benhissoune, Boudouresque, Perret-Boudouresque & Verlaque 2002: 397

Original publication: Benhissoune, S., Boudouresque, C.-F., Perret-Boudouresque, M. & Verlaque, M. (2002). A checklist of the seaweeds of the Mediterranean and Atlantic coasts of Morocco. III. Rhodophyceae (Excluding Ceramiales). Botanica Marina 45: 391-412.
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Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Titanoderma is Titanoderma pustulatum (J.V.Lamouroux) Nägeli.

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

Basionym
Nullipora trochanter Bory de Saint-Vincent

Type information
Type locality: Greece (Woelkerling 1998: 385). Lectotype: collector not indicated; date not indicated; PC unnumbered, General Herbarium box collection (non-fossil; filed in non-geniculate coralline type collections cabinet under basionym) (Woelkerling 1998: 385). Notes: Isolectotypes: PC, unnumbered, Thuret-Bornet Herbarium (box collection, filed under Goniolithon byssoides); PC, unnumbered, General Herbarium (non-fossil; filed in non-geniculate coralline type collections cabinet affixed to a herbarium sheet); TRH, unnumbered, includes slide 526.

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Nullipora trochanter Bory de Saint-Vincent 1832
Titanoderma byssoides var. trochanter (Bory de Saint-Vincent) Bressan & Babbini 1997
Lithophyllum trochanter (Bory de Saint-Vincent) H.Huvé ex Woelkerling 1998

General environment
This is a Marine species.

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Titanoderma byssoides var. trochanter (Bory de Saint-Vincent) Bressan & Babbini)
Europe: Adriatic (Babbini & Bressan 1997), Greece (Babbini & Bressan 1997), Italy (Babbini & Bressan 1997).

(as Lithophyllum trochanter (Bory de Saint-Vincent) H.Huvé ex Woelkerling)
Europe: Adriatic (Giaccone 1978), Italy (Giaccone 1969, Furnari et al. 2003, Furnari et al. 2003, Furnari et al. 2003, Furnari et al. 2003), Sardinia (Furnari et al. 2003).

(as Titanoderma trochanter (Bory de Saint-Vincent) Benhissoune, Boudouresque, Perret-Boudouresque & Verlaque)
South-west Asia: Cyprus (Taskin et al. 2013).

Source of synonymy
Bressan, G. & Cabioch, J. (2004). Titanoderma trochanter (Bory) Benhissoume, Boudouresque, Perret-Boudouresque et Verlaque, et Titanoderma ramosissimum Heydrich) comb. nov. (Corallinales, Rhodophytes), une rédefinition. Cahiers Biologie Marine 45: 225-242, 7 figs, 1 Table.

Key references
Bressan, G. & Babbini, L. (2003). Biodiversità marina delle coste Italiane: Corallinales del Mar Mediterraneo: guida all deteminazione. Biologia Marina Mediterranea 10(Suppl. 2): 1-237.

Rodríguez-Prieto, C., Ballesteros, E., Boisset, F. & Afonso-Carrillo, J. (2013). Guía de las macroalgas y fanerógamas marinas del Mediterráneo occidental. pp. [1]-656. Barcelona: Ediciones Omega, S.A..

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

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=Titanoderma&Species=trochanter

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 09 November 2004 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 07 May 2013 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.)

Bressan, G. & Cabioch, J. (2004). Titanoderma trochanter (Bory) Benhissoume, Boudouresque, Perret-Boudouresque et Verlaque, et Titanoderma ramosissimum Heydrich) comb. nov. (Corallinales, Rhodophytes), une rédefinition. Cahiers Biologie Marine 45: 225-242, 7 figs, 1 Table.

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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 19 June 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:38542

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