Fauchea repens (C.Agardh) Montagne & Bory de Saint-Vincent
Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Rhodophyta
Subphylum Eurhodophytina
Class Florideophyceae
Subclass Rhodymeniophycidae
Order Rhodymeniales
Family Faucheaceae
Genus Fauchea
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Ría de Ferrol, Galicia, Spain, 2008, Ignacio Bárbara; TS tetrasporangial sorus. 01 Jan 2008. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

Spain. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

Fauchea repens (C.Agardh) Montagne & Bory de Saint-Vincent Ría de Ferrol, Galicia, Spain, 2008, Ignacio Bárbara; TS tetrasporangial sorus
Publication details
Fauchea repens (C.Agardh) Montagne & Bory de Saint-Vincent in Montagne 1846: 64
Original publication: Montagne, [J.F.]C. (1846). Flore d'Algérie. Ordo I. Phyceae Fries. In: Exploration scientifique de l'Algérie pendant les années 1840, 1841, 1842...Sciences physiques. Botanique. Cryptogamie. (Durieu De Maisonneuve, M.C. Eds) Vol. 1, pp. 1-197. Paris: Imprimerie Royale, publiée par ordre du Gouvernement et avec le concours d'une Commission Académique.
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Type species
This is the type species (holotype) of the genus Fauchea.
Status of name
This name is currently regarded as a taxonomic synonym of Gloiocladia repens (C.Agardh) Sánchez & Rodríguez-Prieto
Basionym
Sphaerococcus repens C.Agardh
Type information
Type locality: near Cádiz, Spain (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996: 360). Lectotype: LD 25705 (Rodríguez-Prieto, Freshwater & Sánchez 2007: 146).
Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), creeping, prostrate and rooting (Stearn 1973).
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Fucus furcatus Esper 1800
General environment
This is a marine species.
Distribution by country
Detailed distribution with sources
(as Fauchea repens (C.Agardh) Montagne & Bory de Saint-Vincent)
Europe: Adriatic (Giaccone 1978), Balearic Islands (, Rodríguez y Femenías 1889, Petersen 1918, Mazza 1921, De Toni 1924, Ribera Siguán 1983, Ribera Siguán & Gómez Garreta 1984), Corsica (Boudouresque & Perret 1977, Coppejans 1979), France (Anon. 2012), Greece (Gerloff & Geissler 1974, Athanasiadis 1987), Italy (Giaccone 1969, Furnari, Cormaci & Serio 1999, Rindi, Sartoni & Cinelli 2002, Furnari et al. 2003, Furnari et al. 2003, Furnari et al. 2003, Furnari et al. 2003, Dalen & Saunders 2007), Sardinia (Furnari et al. 2003), Spain (Miranda 1931, Ballesteros & Romero 1982, Ballesteros 1983, Gallardo et al. 1985, Conde et al. 1996, López Varela 2000, López Varela, C. et al. 2002, López Varela, C. et al. 2002, Bárbara et al. 2005, Bárbara et al. 2005, Bárbara et al. 2006, Cires Rodriguez & Cuesta Moliner 2010).
Atlantic Islands: Canary Islands (Haroun et al. 2002, Gil-Rodríguez et al. 2003, John et al. 2004, Anon 2011).
Africa: Egypt (Aleem 1993).
Indian Ocean Islands: Maldives (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996).
Source of synonymy
Rodríguez-Prieto, C., Freshwater, D. W. & Sánchez, N. (2007). Vegetative and reproductive morphology of Gloiocladia repens (C. Agardh) Sánchez et Rodríguez-Prieto comb. nov. (Rhodymeniales, Rhodophyta), with a taxonomic re-assessment of the genera Fauchea and Gloiocladia. European Journal of Phycology 42(2): 145-162, 38 Figs, 3 Tables.
Key references
Funk, G. (1955). Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Meeresalgen von Neapel: Zugleich mikrophotographischer Atlas. Pubblicazioni della Stazione Zoologica di Napoli 25(Suppl.): i-x , 1- 178, 36 figs.
SAG Cultures
SAG Cultures may be viewed at http://sagdb.uni-goettingen.de/showstrains.php?genus=Fauchea&species=repens
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=Fauchea&Species=repens
Created: 30 July 1996 by M.D. Guiry
Verified by: 25 July 2011 by M.D. Guiry
Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 1291 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.)
C. López Varela, Bárbara I., Veiga, A.J., CremadesJ. & Peteiro, C. (2002). Fauchea repens (C. Agardh) Montagne et Bory (Rhodymeniales, Rhodophyta) en el noroeste de la Península Ibérica. Nova Acta Científica Compostelana (Bioloxía) 12: 219-222, 2 Figures.
Rodríguez-Prieto, C., Freshwater, D. W. & Sánchez, N. (2007). Vegetative and reproductive morphology of Gloiocladia repens (C. Agardh) Sánchez et Rodríguez-Prieto comb. nov. (Rhodymeniales, Rhodophyta), with a taxonomic re-assessment of the genera Fauchea and Gloiocladia. European Journal of Phycology 42(2): 145-162, 38 Figs, 3 Tables.
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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 22 May 2013.
Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:100265



