Desmarestia viridis (O.F.Müller) J.V.Lamouroux

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Chromista
Phylum Ochrophyta
Class Phaeophyceae
Order Desmarestiales
Family Desmarestiaceae
Genus Desmarestia

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Peter the Great Bay, Russia. 27 Mar 2012. Oksana Belous. © Oksana Belous (ksu_bio@mail.ru).

Upper subtidal (Peter the Great Bay, Russia). 09 Mar 2012. O.S. Belous. © Contact: Eduard and Tamara Titlyanova (etitlyanov@mail.ru).

British Columbia; electron micrograph of sperm showing anterior rostrum (compare with proboscis of Fucaceae) and long posterior flagellum constructed of proximal 9+2 portion and distal portion formed by continuation of the 2 central microtubules of the a. Eric Henry. © Eric Henry (eric@reedmariculture.com).

Lippe (Hohwacht), Kiel Bight, Baltic Sea, 3m depth. 22 Apr 2004. Dirk Schories. © Dirk Schories (dirk.schories@gmx.de).

Desmarestia viridis (O.F.Müller) J.V.Lamouroux Upper subtidal (Peter the Great Bay, Russia)

Publication details
Desmarestia viridis (O.F.Müller) J.V.Lamouroux 1813: 45

Original publication: Lamouroux, J.V.F. (1813). Essai sur les genres de la famille des thalassiophytes non articulées. Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris 20: 21-47, 115-139, 267-293, pls 7-13.
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Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Desmarestia is Desmarestia aculeata (Linnaeus) J.V.Lamouroux.

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

Basionym
Fucus viridis O.F.Müller

Type information
Type locality: Sinus Dróbachiense [Drøbak, Norway] (Müller 1782: 5). Lectotype: original illustration (epitype)

Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), green (Stearn 1973).

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Fucus viridis O.F.Müller 1782
Chordaria viridis (O.F.Müller) C.Agardh 1817
Gigartina viridis (O.F.Müller) Lyngbye 1819
Sporochnus viridis (O.F.Müller) Greville 1830
Dichloria viridis (O.F.Müller) Greville 1830

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Iridea fluitans Stackhouse 1816
Desmarestia pacifica Setchell & N.L.Gardner 1924
Desmarestia media var. tenuis Setchell & N.L.Gardner 1924
Krobylopteris oltmannsii Schmidt 1942

General environment
This is a Marine species.

Common names

(as Desmarestia viridis (O.F.Müller) J.V.Lamouroux)
English: Sea sorrel (Dickinson 1963), Desmarest's Green Weed (Bunker et al. 2010).

French: Oseille de mer (Dickinson 1963).

Japanese: Ke-urushigusa (Tokida 1954).

Swedish: Mjukt käringhår (Tolstoy & Österlund 2003).

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Desmarestia viridis (O.F.Müller) J.V.Lamouroux)
Arctic: Canada (Arctic) (Taylor 1957, Lee 1980), Svalbard (Fredriksen & Kile 2012, Hop et al. 2012).

Ireland: Antrim (Adams 1907, Guiry 1978, Morton 1994), Cork (Guiry 1978, Cullinane & Whelan 1983), Derry (Morton 1994), Donegal (Guiry 1978), Down (Guiry 1978, Morton 1994), Dublin (Sanders 1860, Guiry 1978), Kerry (Morton 1980, Whelan & Cullinane 1985), Mayo (Cotton 1912, Guiry 1978), Waterford (Guiry 1977, Guiry 1978), Wexford (Cotton 1913, Norton 1970, Guiry 1978).

Europe: Baltic Sea (Nielsen et al. 1995), Britain (Newton 1931, Fletcher 1987, Hardy & Guiry 2003), Faroe Islands (Irvine 1982, Nielsen & Gunnarsson 2001), France (Feldmann 1954, Ben Maiz, Boudouresque, Lauret & Riouall 1988, Ribera et al. 1992, Verlaque 2001, Dizerbo & Herpe 2007, Silberfeld et al. 2011, Anon. 2012), Helgoland (Bartsch & Kuhlenkamp 2000), Ireland (Adams 1907, Cotton 1912, Cotton 1913, Guiry 1977, Guiry 1978, Whelan & Cullinane 1985, Fletcher 1987, Morton 1994, Guiry 2012), Netherlands (Stegenga & Mol 1983, Stegenga, Kaaremans & Simons 2007), Norway (Rueness 1997), Scandinavia (Athanasiadis 1996), Spitsbergen (Vinogradova 1995), Sweden (Kylin 1907, Kylin 1947, Tolstoy & Österlund 2003), Veneto (Sfriso, A.).

Atlantic Islands: E. Greenland (Lund 1959, Pedersen 1976), Greenland (Pedersen 2011), Iceland (Caram & Jónsson 1972).

North America: Alaska (Lindstrom 1977, Scagel et al. 1989, Lindeberg & Lindstrom 2010), Aleutian Islands (Mondragon & Mondragon 2003), Baja California (Mondragon & Mondragon 2003), British Columbia (Scagel et al. 1989), California (Scagel et al. 1989, Miller 2012), Connecticut (Van Patten 2009), Maine (Mathieson et al. 2001), New Hampshire (Mathieson & Hehre 1986), New Jersey (Taylor 1957), Newfoundland (Taylor 1957), Washington (Scagel et al. 1989).

Central America: México (Pacific) (Pedroche et al. 2008).

South America: Chile (Mondragon & Mondragon 2003).

Asia: China (Tseng 1984, Zeng 2009), Commander Islands (Selivanova & Zhigadlova 1997), Japan (Okamura 1936, Okamura 1936, Segawa 1981, Yoshida, Nakajima & Nakata 1990, Yoshida 1998, Terasaki et al. 2009), Korea (Lee & Kang 2001, Lee & Hwang 2010), Russia (Kozhenkova 2009, Titlyanov & Titlyanov 2012).

Antarctic and the subantarctic islands: Antarctica/Subantarctic Islands (Papenfuss 1964).

(as Dichloria viridis (O.F.Müller) Greville)
Ireland: Antrim (Drummond 1837).

Europe: Ireland (Drummond 1837).

Asia: Kamchatka (Klochkova, Korolyova & Kusidi 2009), Russia (Perestenko 1980).

(as Desmarestia pacifica Setchell & N.L.Gardner)
North America: Isla Guadalupe (Setchell & Gardner 1930 ).

Key references
Boo, S.M. & Ko, Y.D. (2012). Marine plants from Korea. pp. [1] 5-233, many col. photographs. Seoul: Marine & Extreme Genome Research Centre Program.

Cormaci, M., Furnari, G., Catra, M., Alongi, G. & Giaccone, G. (2012). Flora marina bentonica del Mediterraneo: Phaeophyceae. Bollettino dell'Accademia Gioenia 45: 1-508.

Fletcher, R.L. (1987). Seaweeds of the British Isles. Vol. 3. Fucophyceae (Phaeophyceae). Part 1. pp. [i]-x, [1]-359, 90 figs, 15 pls. London: British Museum (Natural History).

Hollenberg, G.J. & Abbott, I.A. (1966). Supplement to Smith's marine algae of the Monterey Peninsula. pp. ix (xii), 1-130, 53 figs. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Lee, J.W. & Hwang, I.K. (2010). Dictyotales, Desmarestiales. In: Algal flora of Korea. Volume 2, Number 2. Heterokontophyta: Phaeophyceae: Ishigeales, Dictyotales, Desmarestiales, Sphacelariales, Cutleriales, Ralfisales, Laminariales. (Anon. Eds), pp. 19-69. Incheon: National Institute of Biological Resources.

Lindeberg, M.R. & Lindstrom, S.C. (2010). Field guide to the seaweeds of Alaska. pp. [i-]iii-iv, 1-188, numerous col. photographs. Fairbanks: Alaska Sea Grant College Program.

Mondragon, J. & Mondragon, J. (2003). Seaweeds of the Pacific Coast. Common marine algae from Alaska to Baja California. pp. iv, 5-97. Monterey, California: Sea Challengers.

Pedersen, P.M. (2011). Grønlands havalger. pp. [1] 7-208. Copenhagen: Forlaget Epsilon.DK.

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.

Sfriso, A. (2011). Ochrophyta (Phaeophyceae e Xanthophyceae). Ambiente di transizione italiani e litorali adiacenti. pp. [1]-234, pls 1-51. Bologna: Arpa Emilia-Romagna.

Smith, G.M. (1944). Marine algae of the Monterey Peninsula. pp. i-ix, 1-622, 98 pls. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Titlyanov, E.A. & Titlyanov, T.V. (2012). Marine plants of the Asian Pacific Region countries, their use and cultivation. pp. [1]-376, many col. photographs. Vladivostok: Dalnauka & A.V. Zhirmunsky Institute of Marine Biology Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

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

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=Desmarestia&Species=viridis

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 31 March 1996 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 26 February 2013 by M.D. Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 2858 times since it was created.

References
(Please note: only references with the binomials in the title are included. The information is from the Literature database.)

Kornmann, P. (1962). Der Lebenzyklus von Desmarestia viridis. Helgoländer Wissenschaftliche Meeresuntersuchungen 8: 287-292.
Kremer, B.P. (1973). Isolation of mannitol from Desmarestia viridis. Phytochemistry 12: 609-610.
Oates, B.R. & Cole, K.M. (1990). Cell-wall surface features on Desmarestia ligulata and D. viridis (Phaeophyta). Phycologia 29: 529-532.

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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 22 May 2013.

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