Tiffaniella capitata (Bornet) Doty & Meñez 1960

Current name: Tiffaniella capitata (Bornet) Doty & Meñez
microscope, spermatangia; Spain, Galicia, Ría de Coruña, 1990Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es)

Publication Details
Tiffaniella capitata (Bornet) Doty & Meñez 1960: 137 (as 'capitatum')

Published in: Doty, M.S. & Meñez, E.G. (1960). Tiffaniella, a new genus in the Ceramiales. Transactions of the American Microscopical Society 79(2): 135-144, 14 figs.

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Type Species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Tiffaniella is Tiffaniella saccorhiza (Setchell & N.L.Gardner) Doty & Meñez.

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

Basionym
Spermothamnion capitatum Bornet

Type Information
Type locality: Tanger [Tangier, Morocco]; (Bornet 1892: 323) Notes: Alg. Schousb. No. 220.

Origin of Species Name
Adjective (Latin), with a knob-like head or tip (Stearn 1983).

General Environment
This is a marine species.

Created: 03 August 1996 by M.D. Guiry.

Last updated: 05 December 2023

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Taxonomic note
"This species, very similar in morpho-vegetative characters to Spermothamnion flabellatum, distinguishes from it in showing polysporangia, instead of tetrasporangia, and in gonimoblasts without involucral filaments. T. capitate is rather rare in the Mediterranean Sea, where it was recorded from the Aeolian Islands (Italy) by Giaccone et al. (1999: 224)), Latium (Italy) by Adelahad & D%u2019Archino (1998: 112) and, as Spermothamnion capitatum Bornet [basionym of the species), from Algeria by both Bornet (1892: 323) and Feldmann- Mazoyer (1941: 360), and from Spain by Conde et al. (1996)." (Cormaci & al. 2023: 434-435). - (05 December 2023) - M.D. Guiry

Distributional note
Record in South & Tittley (1986) is questioned by Neto (1994). - (11 May 2006) - G.M. Guiry

Habitat note
sand-covered rocky habitats, at shadow sites with high sedimentation such as harbours (Diaz-Tapia & Bárbara, 2014). - (26 June 2014) - G.M. Guiry

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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 05 December 2023. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 15 June 2025