Anotrichium tenue (C.Agardh) Nägeli

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Rhodophyta
Subphylum Eurhodophytina
Class Florideophyceae
Subclass Rhodymeniophycidae
Order Ceramiales
Family Wrangeliaceae
Tribe Griffithsieae
Genus Anotrichium

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Hawaii; scale is 5 mm. 15 Aug 2011. J.M. Huisman. © J.M. Huisman. From: Huisman JM, Abbott IA, Smith CM (2007). Hawaiian reef plants. University of Hawaii Sea Grant College Program, Honolulu. 264 p. Available from Seagrant, University of Hawai'i.

Hawaii; tetrasporangia with tetrahedral arrangement of tetraspores; scale 100 µm. 15 Aug 2011. J.M. Huisman. © J.M. Huisman. From: Huisman JM, Abbott IA, Smith CM (2007). Hawaiian reef plants. University of Hawaii Sea Grant College Program, Honolulu. 264 p. Available from Seagrant, University of Hawai'i.

Houtman Abrolhos, Western Australia. John Huisman. © John Huisman (j.huisman@murdoch.edu.au). From: Huisman, J.M. (2000). Marine Plants of Australia. University of Western Australia Press, Nedlands, Western Australia..

Anotrichium tenue (C.Agardh) Nägeli Houtman Abrolhos, Western Australia

Publication details
Anotrichium tenue (C.Agardh) Nägeli 1862: 399

Original publication: Nägeli, C. (1862 '1861'). Beiträge zur morphologie und systematik der Ceramiaceae. Sitzungsberichte der Königlichen Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu München 1861(2): 297-415, 30 figs, 1 pl.
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Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Anotrichium is Anotrichium barbatum (C.Agardh) Nägeli.

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

Basionym
Griffithsia tenuis C.Agardh

Type information
Type locality: Venezia (Venice), Italy (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996: 376). Type: Ruchinger; herb. alg. Agardh, LD 19891 (Yoshida 1998: 871). Notes: Dawson (1962: 73) notes that the type collection was made by Ruchinger. See Baldock (1976: 557).

Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), thin, fine, slender (Stearn 1973).

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Griffithsia tenuis C.Agardh 1828

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Callithamnion thyrsigerum Thwaites ex Harvey 1855
Griffithsia thyrsigera (Thwaites ex Harvey) Grunow 1874
Griffithsia schimperi Reinbold 1907
Anotrichium tenue var. thyrsigerum (Thwaites ex Harvey) H.S.Kim & I.K.Lee 1992
Anotrichium celianum I.A.Abbott & R.E.Norris 1993

General environment
This is a marine species.

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Griffithsia tenuis C.Agardh)
Europe: Adriatic (Giaccone 1978), Greece (Gerloff & Geissler 1974, Diapoulis, Haritonidis & Koussouris 1986), Italy (Cinelli et al. 1976), Spain (Pérez-Ruzafa & Honrubia 1984).

Atlantic Islands: Bermuda (Taylor 1960), Canary Islands (Gil-Rodríguez & Afonso-Carrillo 1980, Gil-Rodriguez et al. 1985, Price, John & Lawson 1986), Cape Verde Islands (Price, John & Lawson 1986), Madeira (Levring 1974), Salvage Islands (Audiffred & Weisscher 1984).

North America: Baja California (Dawson 1962), Florida (Taylor 1960), Gulf of California (Dawson 1944, Dawson 1962), Mexico (Dawson 1962), North Carolina (Taylor 1960), Virginia (Humm 1979).

Caribbean Islands: Barbados (Taylor 1960, Taylor 1969), Hispaniola (Taylor 1960), Lesser Antilles (Taylor 1969), Virgin Islands (Taylor 1960).

South America: Brazil (Joly 1965, Oliveira Filho 1977).

Africa: Angola (Price, John & Lawson 1986), Egypt (Papenfuss 1968), Mauritius (Børgesen 1945), Senegal (Price, John & Lawson 1986), Tunisia (Ben Maiz, Boudouresque & Quahchi 1987).

South-east Asia: Vietnam (Pham-Hoàng 1969).

Australia and New Zealand: Northern Territory (Womersley 1958).

Pacific Islands: Solomon Islands (Womersley & Bailey 1970).

(as Anotrichium tenue (C.Agardh) Nägeli)
Europe: Adriatic (Gómez Garreta et al. 2001), Balearic Islands (Rull Lluch, Gómez Garreta & Ribera Siguán 1987, Gómez Garreta et al. 2001), France (Gómez Garreta et al. 2001), Greece (Athanasiadis 1987, Gómez Garreta et al. 2001, Tsirika & Haritonidis 2005), Italy (Cecere et al. 1996, Furnari, Cormaci & Serio 1999, Gómez Garreta et al. 2001, Gómez Garreta et al. 2001, Rindi, Sartoni & Cinelli 2002, Furnari et al. 2003, Furnari et al. 2003, Furnari et al. 2003, Furnari et al. 2003, Serio et al 2006), Malta (Cormaci et al. 1997), Sardinia (Furnari et al. 2003), Spain (Gallardo et al. 1985, Rull Lluch & Gómez Garreta 1990, Pérez-Ruzafa 1990, Gómez Garreta et al. 2001, Pérez-Ruzafa et al. 2008), Turkey (Europe) (Gómez Garreta et al. 2001).

Atlantic Islands: Azores (Neto 1994, Tittley & Neto 1994), Canary Islands (Price, John & Lawson 1986, Guadalupe et al. 1995, Haroun et al. 2002, Gil-Rodríguez et al. 2003, John et al. 2004, Anon 2011), Cape Verde Islands (John et al. 2004, Prud'homme van Reine, Haroun & Kostermans 2005), Madeira (Neto, Cravo & Haroun 2001, John et al. 2004), Salvage Islands (John et al. 2004).

North America: Florida (Schneider & Searles 1991, Littler, Littler & Hanisak 2008, Collado-Vides et al. 2011), Georgia (Schneider & Searles 1991), North Carolina (Schneider & Searles 1991), South Carolina (Schneider & Searles 1991), Texas (Wynne 2009).

Central America: Belize (Norris & Bucher 1982), Costa Rica (Fernández-García et al. 2011 ).

Caribbean Islands: Bahamas (Ballantine, D.L. & N.E. Aponte 2005), Caribbean (Littler & Littler 2000), Cuba (Suárez 2005), Curaçao (Fricke et al. 2011), Martinique (Rodríguez-Prieto, Michanek & Ivon 1999).

Western Atlantic: Trop. & Subtrop. W. Atlantic (Wynne 2011).

South America: Brazil (Villaca et al. 2010, Creed et al. 2010), Colombia (Ganesan 1990, Díaz-Pulido & Díaz-Ruíz 2003), Galápagos Islands (Ruiz & Ziemmeck 2011).

Africa: Algeria (Gómez Garreta et al. 2001), Angola (John et al. 2004), Egypt (Aleem 1993, Gómez Garreta et al. 2001), Eritrea (Lipkin & Silva 2002), Kenya (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Bolton, Oyieke & Gwanda 2007), Mauritius (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Morocco (Gómez Garreta et al. 2001), Mozambique (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Namibia (Rull Lluch 2002, John et al. 2004), Senegal (John et al. 2004), South Africa (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Stegenga, Bolton & Anderson 1997), Tanzania (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Oliveira, Österlund & Mtolera 2005), Tunisia (Meñez & Mathieson 1981, Gómez Garreta et al. 2001).

Indian Ocean Islands: Maldives (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Réunion (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Seychelles (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996).

South-west Asia: Bahrain (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), India (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Sahoo et al. 2001), Iran (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Sohrabipour & Rabii 1999), Israel (Hoffman 2004), Kuwait (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Levant states (Gómez Garreta et al. 2001), Oman (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Saudi Arabia (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Turkey (Asia) (Taskin et al. 2008).

Asia: China (Tseng 1984, Zheng, Liu & Chen 2001), Japan (Yoshida, Nakajima & Nakata 1990, Yoshida 1998, Titlyanov et al 2006), Korea (Lee & Kang 2001, Lee 2008, Kim & Lee 2012).

South-east Asia: Indonesia (Atmadja & Prud'homme van Reine 2012), Philippines (Silva, Meñez & Moe 1987), Vietnam (Abbott, Fisher & McDermid 2002).

Australia and New Zealand: Houtman Abrolhos (Huisman 1997), Lord Howe Island (Millar & Kraft 1993), New South Wales (Millar 1990, Millar & Kraft 1993), Norfolk Island (Lewis 1984, Millar 1999), Queensland (Lewis 1984, Price & Scott 1992, Phillips 1997, Phillips 2002, Bostock & Holland 2010), Western Australia (Huisman & Walker 1990, Huisman & Borowitzka 2003, Huisman et al. 2009).

Pacific Islands: American Samoa (Tsuda et al. 2011), Federated States of Micronesia (Lobban & Tsuda 2003, Tsuda 2006), Fiji (N'Yeurt, South & Keats 1996, South & Skelton 2003), French Polynesia (Payri, N'Yeurt & Orempuller 2000, N'Yeurt & Payri 2010, N'Yeurt & Payri 2010, N'Yeurt & Payri 2010), Hawaiian Islands (Abbott 1999, Huisman, Abbott & Smith 2007, Vroom & Timmers 2009), Mariana Islands (Tsuda 2003), New Caledonia (Pueschel & West 2007), Samoa (Skelton & South 2007), Wake Atoll (Ysuda et al. 2010).

(as Anotrichium tenue var. thyrsigerum (Thwaites ex Harvey) H.S.Kim & I.K.Lee)
Asia: Korea (Lee & Kang 2001).

Australia and New Zealand: New South Wales (Womersley 1998), South Australia (Womersley 1998), Victoria (Womersley 1998), Western Australia (Womersley 1998).

Pacific Islands: Samoan Archipelago (Skelton & South 1999).

Key references
Abbott, I.A., Fisher, J. & McDermid, K.J. (2002). Newly reported and revised marine algae from the vicinity of Nha Trang, Vietnam. In: Taxonomy of Economic Seaweeds with reference to some Pacific species. Vol. VIII. (Abbott, I.A. & Mcdermid, K.J. Eds) Vol. 8, pp. 291-321. Oceanographic Institute, Nha Trang, Vietnam: California Sea Grant College.

Dawes, C.J. & Mathieson, A.C. (2008). The seaweeds of Florida. pp. [i]- viii, [1]-591, [592], pls I-LI. Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida.

Huisman, J.M., Abbott, I.A., Smith, C.M. (2007). Hawaiian reef plants. pp. [1]-264, numerous colour photographs. Honolulu: A publication of the University of Hawai'i Sea Grant College Program.

Kim, H.-S. & Lee, I.K. (1991). Two species of Anotrichium Naegeli (Ceramiaceae, Rhodophyta) in Korea, specially referred to the subgeneric groups. Korean Journal of Phycology 6(1): 13-22, 4 figs, 1 table.

Kim, H.-S. & Lee, I.K. (2012). Algal flora of Korea. Volume 4, Number 5.Rhodophyta: Florideophyceae: Ceramiales: Ceramiaceae I (Non-corticate species). pp. [1-4], 1-152, figs 1-105. Incheon: National Institute of Biological Resources.

N'Yeurt, A.D.R. & Payri, C.E. (2010). Marine algal flora of French Polynesia III. Rhodophyta, with additions to the Phaeophyceae and Chlorophyta. Cryptogamie Algologie 31: 3-205.

Skelton, P.A. & South, G.R. (2007). The benthic marine algae of the Samoan Archipelago, South Pacific, with emphasis on the Apia District. Nova Hedwigia Beihefte 132: 1-350.

Zheng, B., Liu, J. & Chen, Z. (2001). Flora algarum marinarum sinicarum Tomus II Rhodophyta No. VI Ceramiales (I). pp. [i-vi], i-xx, 1-159, 1 pl. Beijing: Science Press.

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

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=Anotrichium&Species=tenue

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 30 July 1996 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 08 October 2012 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.)

Cormaci, M., Furnari, G. & Pizzuto, F. (1994). Taxonomic and nomenclatural notes on Anotrichium tenue and related species (Ceramiaceae, Rhodophyta). Taxon 43: 633-637, 8 figs.
Lee, I.K. (1992). A short note on Anotrichium tenue (C. Agardh) Nägeli var. thyrsigerum (Thwaites ex Harvey) Kim et Lee. Korean Journal of Phycology 7(1): 159.
Watson, B.A., Waaland, S.D. & Waaland, J.R. (1986). Phycocyanin from the red alga Anotrichium tenue: modification of properties by a cololorless polypeptide (M_r 30 000). Biochemistry 25: 4583-4587.

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