Sargassum vulgare C.Agardh

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Chromista
Phylum Ochrophyta
Class Phaeophyceae
Order Fucales
Family Sargassaceae
Genus Sargassum

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Sargassum vulgare C.Agardh Bonaire, Caribbean

Publication details
Sargassum vulgare C.Agardh 1820: 3

Original publication: Agardh, C.A. (1820 '1821'). Species algarum rite cognitae, cum synonymis, differentiis specificis et descriptionibus succinctis. Volumen primum. Pars prima. pp. [i-iv], [1]-168. Lundae [Lund]: ex officina Berlingiana.
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Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Sargassum is Sargassum bacciferum (Turner) C.Agardh.

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

Infrageneric classification
Subgenus Sargassum

Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), common, general, ordinary (Stearn 1973).

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Fucus salicifolius S.G.Gmelin 1768
Sargassum coarctatum Kützing 1843
Sargassum megalophyllum Montagne 1846
Sargassum vulgare var. megalophyllum (Montagne) Vickers 1896

General environment
This is a Marine species.

Common names

(as Sargassum vulgare C.Agardh)
German: Beerentang (Braune 2008).

Type information
Type locality: “Bat Yam, Israel (Ramon & Gil-ad 2007: 955). Type: E. Ramon; 8 May 1958; HUJ 800000 Notes: Ad litora Oceani Atlantici; ex India Occidentali” (Agardh 1820: 5).

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Sargassum vulgare C.Agardh)
Europe: Adriatic (Giaccone 1978, Ercegovic 1980, Ercegovic 1980, Ribera et al. 1992), Balearic Islands (Colmeiro, M. 1868, Sauvageau 1914, Bellón 1921, Navarro & Bellón 1945, Gómez Garreta 1983, Ribera Siguán 1983, Ribera Siguán & Gómez Garreta 1985, Ribera et al. 1992, Rull Lluch et al. 1994, Ribera, Coloreu, Rodriguez Prieto & Ballesteros 1997), Black Sea (Ribera et al. 1992), Corsica (Boudouresque & Perret 1977, Coppejans 1979, Ribera et al. 1992), France (Ribera et al. 1992, Dizerbo & Herpe 2007, Anon. 2012), Greece (Gerloff & Geissler 1974, Athanasiadis 1987, Ribera et al. 1992, Tsirika & Haritonidis 2005), Italy (Giaccone 1969, Edwards et al. 1975, Cinelli et al. 1976, Ribera et al. 1992, Ribera et al. 1992, Furnari, Cormaci & Serio 1999, Rindi, Sartoni & Cinelli 2002, Serio et al 2006), Malta (Cormaci et al. 1997), Portugal (De Mesquita Rodrigues 1963, Ribera et al. 1996, Lopes et al. 2011, Bárbara et al. 2012), Spain (Lázaro Ibiza 1889, Bellón 1921, Seoane-Camba 1965, Ballesteros & Romero 1982, Valenzuela & Pérez-Cirera 1982, Barcelo & Seoane 1982, Pérez-Ruzafa & Honrubia 1984, Gallardo et al. 1985, Rodriguez Prieto & Polo Alberti 1988, Soto & Conde 1989, Pérez-Ruzafa et al. 1991, Ribera et al. 1992, Rull Lluch et al. 1994, Flores-Moya et al. 1994, Flores-Moya et al. 1995, Ribera et al. 1996, Gorostiaga et al., 2004, Martínez-Gil et al. 2007, Pérez-Ruzafa et al. 2008, de los Santos, Pérez-Lloréns & Vergara 2009, Mercado et al. 2009, Cires Rodriguez & Cuesta Moliner 2010, Hernández et al. 2010), Turkey (Europe) (Güven & Öztig 1971, Güner, Aysel, Sukatar & Öztürk 1985, Cirik, Zeybeck, Aysel & Cirik 1990, Ribera et al. 1992, Taskin et al. 2008 ).

Atlantic Islands: Ascension (Price, John & Lawson 1978, Price & John 1980, John et al. 2004), Azores (Neto 1994, Tittley & Neto 1994), Bermuda (Taylor 1960), Canary Islands (Børgesen 1926, Price, John & Lawson 1978, Gil-Rodríguez & Afonso-Carrillo 1980, Viera-Rodriguez et al. 1985, Gil-Rodriguez et al. 1985, Haroun Trabaue et al. 1985, Viera-Rodriguez et al. 1987, Campos et al. 1987, Sanson, Chacana & Gil-Rodriguez 1990, Ballesteros, Sansón, Reyes, Afonso-Carrillo & Gil-Rodríguez 1992, Guadalupe et al. 1995, Haroun et al. 2002, Gil-Rodríguez et al. 2003, John et al. 2004, Hernández-González et al. 2004a, Hernández-González et al. 2004b, Anon 2011), Cape Verde Islands (Price, John & Lawson 1978, Otero-Schmitt & Sanjuan 1992, John et al. 2004, Prud'homme van Reine, Haroun & Kostermans 2005), Madeira (Levring 1974, Neto, Cravo & Haroun 2001, Haroun et al. 2002, John et al. 2004), Salvage Islands (Audiffred & Weisscher 1984, John et al. 2004).

North America: Florida (Taylor 1960), Mexico (Taylor 1960).

Central America: Belize (Taylor 1960, Littler & Littler 1997), Costa Rica (Taylor 1960), México (Pacific) (Pedroche et al. 2008).

Caribbean Islands: Bahamas (Taylor 1960), Barbados (Taylor 1960, Taylor 1969), Caribbean (Littler & Littler 2000), Cuba (Taylor 1960, Suárez 2005), Hispaniola (Taylor 1960), Jamaica (Taylor 1960), Lesser Antilles (Taylor 1960, Taylor 1969), Netherlands Antilles (Taylor 1960), Puerto Rico (Taylor 1960), Trinidad & Tobago (Taylor 1960, Richardson 1975, Duncan & Lee Lum 2006), Virgin Islands (Taylor 1960).

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

South America: Brazil (Taylor 1930, Taylor 1960, Joly 1965, Oliveira Filho 1977, Falcão & Menezes de Széchy 2005, Villaca et al. 2010, Menezes Széchy & Paula 2010), Colombia (Taylor 1960), Venezuela (Taylor 1960, Ganesan 1990).

Africa: Algeria (Ribera et al. 1992), Angola (Price, John & Lawson 1978, John et al. 2004), Benin (John et al. 2004), Cameroon (Price, John & Lawson 1978, Lawson & John 1987, John, Lawson & Ameka, 2003, John et al. 2004), Côte d'Ivoire (Price, John & Lawson 1978, Lawson & John 1987, John, Lawson & Ameka, 2003, John et al. 2004), Egypt (Czeczuga 1975, Ribera et al. 1992, Aleem 1993), Gabon (Price, John & Lawson 1978, Lawson & John 1987, John, Lawson & Ameka, 2003, John et al. 2004), Gambia (Price, John & Lawson 1978, Price, John & Lawson 1978, Lawson & John 1987, John, Lawson & Ameka, 2003, John et al. 2004, John et al. 2004), Ghana (Price, John & Lawson 1978, Lawson & John 1987, John, Lawson & Ameka, 2003, John et al. 2004), Liberia (Price, John & Lawson 1978, Lawson & John 1987, John, Lawson & Ameka, 2003, John et al. 2004), Libya (Ribera et al. 1992), Mauritania (Price, John & Lawson 1978, John et al. 2004), Morocco (Dangeard 1949, Ribera et al. 1992, Sabour et al. 2012), Nigeria (John et al. 2004), São Tomé & Príncipe (Price, John & Lawson 1978, Lawson & John 1987, John, Lawson & Ameka, 2003, John et al. 2004), Senegal (Price, John & Lawson 1978, Lawson & John 1987, John et al. 2004, John et al. 2004), Sierra Leone (Price, John & Lawson 1978, Lawson & John 1987, John, Lawson & Ameka, 2003, John et al. 2004), Tanzania (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Togo (John et al. 2004), Tunisia (Meñez & Mathieson 1981, Ben Maiz, Boudouresque & Quahchi 1987, Ribera et al. 1992), Western Sahara (John et al. 2004).

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

South-west Asia: Bangladesh (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), India (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Sahoo et al. 2001), Iran (Sohrabipour & Rabii 1999), Israel (Nemlich & Danin 1964, Hoffman 2004, Ramon & Gil-ad 2007, Einav 2007), Levant states (Ribera et al. 1992), Oman (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Pakistan (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Sri Lanka (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Turkey (Asia) (Taskin et al. 2008 ).

Asia: Japan (Okamura 1936), Taiwan (Anon. 2012).

South-east Asia: Malaysia (Phillips 1995), Philippines (Silva, Meñez & Moe 1987, Phillips 1995), Singapore (Pham et al. 2011).

(as Sargassum coarctatum Kützing)
Africa: Mauritius (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996).

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

(as Sargassum vulgare var. megalophyllum (Montagne) Vickers)
Europe: France (Feldmann 1937, Coppejans 1972), Greece (Tsekos & Haritonidis 1977), Italy (Giaccone 1969), Portugal (De Mesquita Rodrigues 1963), Spain (Ballesteros 1984, Gallardo et al. 1985), Turkey (Europe) (Güner, Aysel, Sukatar & Öztürk 1985).

Atlantic Islands: Canary Islands (Price, John & Lawson 1978).

Taxonomic notes
John et al. ( 2004) cite Sargassum albertisii Picc., S. boryanum Mont., S. endiviaefolium Bory,S. cheirifolium Kütz., S. dichocarpum Kütz., S. diversifolium Kunth. S. fissifolium Kütz., S. lendigerum (L.) C. Agardh, S. obtusatum Bory, S. salicifolium f. diversifolia (Bory) Grunow and S. tenue var. gabonensis Grunow as synonyms of this species.

Nomenclatural notes
See Silva, Basson & Moe (1996) regarding the complex nomenclatural history of this entity. The name is illegitimate because it included Fucus salicifolius Lamouroux when described. It appears that the name will be proposed for conservation.

Key references
Braune, W. (2008). Meeresalgen. Ein Farbbildführer zu den verbreiteten benthischen Grün- Braun- und Rotalgen der Weltmeere. pp. [1]-596, pls 1-266 (colour photographs). Ruggell: A.R.G. Gantner Verlag.

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

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.

De Toni, G.B. (1895). Sylloge algarum omnium hucusque cognitarum. Vol. III. Fucoideae. Vol. 3 pp. [i]-xvi, [1]-638. Patavii [Padua]: Sumptibus auctoris.

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.

Ramon, E. & Gil-ad, N.L. (2007). Proposal to conserve the name Sargassum vulgare (Phaeophyceae: Sargassaceae,) with a conserved type. Taxon 56: 955-957.

Rodríguez-Prieto, C., Ballesteros, E., Boisset, F. & Afonso-Carrillo, J. (2013). Guía de las macroalgas y fanerógamas marinas del Mediterráneo occidental. pp. [1]-656. Barcelona: Ediciones Omega, S.A..

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

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=Sargassum&Species=vulgare

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 04 August 1996 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 30 April 2013 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.)

Falcão, C. & Menezes de Széchy, M.T. (2005). Changes in shallow phytobenthic assemblages in southeastern Brazil, following the replacement of Sargassum vulgare (Phaeophyta) by Caulerpa scalpelliformis (Chlorophyta). Botanica Marina 48: 208-217.
Kaur, I. & Vijayaraghavan, M.R. (1992). Oogonial development, maturation and release in Sargassum vulgare C. Agardh and Sargassum johnstonii Setchell & Gardner. Aquatic Botany 42: 173-185, 5 figs.
Kaur, I. & Vijayaraghavan, M.R. (1992). Physode distribution and genesis in Sargassum vulgare C. Agardh and Sargassum johnstoniii Setchell & Gardner. Aquatic Botany 42: 375-384, 4 figs.
Kaur, I. & Vijayaraghavan, M.R. (1993). Histogenesis and conceptacle organization in Sargassum vulgare C. Agardh (Fucales, Phaeophyta). Japanese Journal of Phycology 41: 247-252, 15 figs.
Kaur, I. & Vijayaraghavan, M.R. (1994). Histochemical studies on the mesochiton-stalk, egg and zygote of Sargassum vulgare C. Agardh (Fucales, Phaeophyta). Japanese Journal of Phycology 42: 431-436, 12 figs.
Kaur, I. (1999). Apical meristem of Sargassum vulgare C. Agardh (Phaeophyta, Fucales). Algae 14(1): 37-42, 3 figs.
Nassar, C.A.G., Lavrado, H.P. & Yoneshigue-Valentin, Y. (2002). Effects of iron-ore particles on propagule release, growth and photosynthetic performance of Sargassum vulgare C. Agardh (Phaeophyta, Fucales). Revista Brasileira de Botânica 25: 459-468.
Ramon, E. & Gil-ad, N.L. (2007). Proposal to conserve the name Sargassum vulgare (Phaeophyceae: Sargassaceae,) with a conserved type. Taxon 56: 955-957.
Rull Lluch, J., Gómez Garreta, A., Barceló, M.C. & Ribera, M.A. (1994). Mapas de distribución de algas marinas de la Península Ibérica e Islas Baleares. VII. Cystoseira C. Agardh (Grupo C. baccata) y Sargassum C. Agardh (S. muticum y S. vulgare). Botanica Complutensis 19: 131-138.

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