Scagelothamnion pusillum (Ruprecht) Athanasiadis

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Rhodophyta
Subphylum Eurhodophytina
Class Florideophyceae
Subclass Rhodymeniophycidae
Order Ceramiales
Family Ceramiaceae
Subfamily Ceramioideae
Tribe Scagelothamnieae
Genus Scagelothamnion

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Publication details
Scagelothamnion pusillum (Ruprecht) Athanasiadis 1996: 79, figs 28-32

Original publication: Athanasiadis, A. (1996). Morphology and classification of the Ceramioideae (Rhodophyta) based on phylogenetic principles. Opera Botanica 127: 1-221.

Type species
This is the type species (holotype) of the genus Scagelothamnion.

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

Basionym
Callithamnion pusillum Ruprecht

Type information
Nova Zemlja, Arctic Russia (Athanasiadis 1996: 87). Lectotype: LE (Maggs & Hommersand 1993: 30).

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

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Callithamnion pusillum Ruprecht 1850
Antithamnion pusillum (Ruprecht) Kjellman 1877
Scagelia pusilla (Ruprecht) Athanasiadis ex Maggs & Hommersand 1993

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Antithamnion boreale var. typicum Sundene
Callithamnion lapponicum Ruprecht 1850
Antithamnion corallinum Kjellman 1877
Antithamnion plumula var. boreale Gobi 1878
Antithamnion boreale (Gobi) Kjellman 1883
Antithamnion boreale f. lapponicum (Ruprecht) Kjellman 1883
Antithamnion boreale f. corallinum (Kjellman) Kjellman 1883
Antithamnion boreale f. typica Kjellman 1883
Antithamnion boreale f. balticum Reinke 1889
Antithamnion boreale f. balticum Reinke 1889
Antithamnion boreale var. droebakense Sundene 1962

General environment
This is a marine species.

Common names

(as Scagelothamnion pusillum (Ruprecht) Athanasiadis)
English: Feather Shrublet (Bunker et al. 2010).

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Antithamnion boreale (Gobi) Kjellman)
Arctic: Canada (Arctic) (Lee 1980).

Europe: Baltic Sea (Nielsen et al. 1995), Faroe Islands (Irvine 1982), Sweden (Kylin 1907, Kylin 1944).

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

(as Antithamnion boreale f. balticum Reinke)
Europe: Sweden (Kylin 1944).

(as Antithamnion boreale var. droebakense Sundene)
Europe: Baltic Sea (Nielsen et al. 1995).

(as Scagelia pusilla (Ruprecht) Athanasiadis ex Maggs & Hommersand)
Europe: Baltic Sea (Nielsen et al. 1995), Britain (Maggs & Hommersand 1993), Norway (Rueness 1997).

(as Scagelothamnion pusillum (Ruprecht) Athanasiadis)
Arctic: Svalbard (Fredriksen & Kile 2012).

Europe: Britain (Hardy & Guiry 2003, Guiry 2012), Faroe Islands (Nielsen & Gunnarsson 2001), Scandinavia (Athanasiadis 1996).

Atlantic Islands: Greenland (Pedersen 2011).

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

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

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=Scagelothamnion&Species=pusillum

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 02 August 1996 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 26 March 2012 by M.D. Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 751 times since it was created.

Linking to this page: http://www.algaebase.org/search/species/detail/?species_id=720

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 May 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:76808