Pelvetia canaliculata (Linnaeus) Decaisne & Thuret

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Chromista
Subkingdom Chromobiota
Infrakingdom Heterokonta
Phylum Heterokontophycophyta
Class Phaeophyceae
Order Fucales
Family Fucaceae
Genus Pelvetia

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Spiddal, Co. Galway, Ireland; mature, reproductive plants on granite. 24 Sep 2006. Michael Guiry. © Michael Guiry.

Spiddal, Co. Galway, Ireland; mature, reproductive receptacles. 24 Sep 2006. Michael Guiry. © Michael Guiry.

Spiddal, Co. Galway, Ireland; sporelings sheltering in Lichina pygmaea sward. 24 Sep 2006. Michael Guiry. © Michael Guiry.

Spiddal, Co. Galway, Ireland; mature, reproductive plants; 10.5 mm lens. 24 Sep 2006. Michael Guiry. © Michael Guiry.

Silver Strand, Co. Galway, Ireland; fisheye lens. 01 Sep 2007. Michael Guiry. © Michael Guiry.

Silver Strand, Co. Galway, Ireland; plants with receptacles. 01 Sep 2007. Michael Guiry. © Michael Guiry.

Spiddal, Co. Galway, Ireland; upper intertidal rocks. 30 Sep 2007. Michael Guiry. © Michael Guiry.

Spain, Galicia, San Antóns Castle, 2005; with Hildenbrandia rubra. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara.

Spiddal, Co. Galway, Ireland; upper-shore plants showing channel. 26 Mar 2005. Michael Guiry. © Michael Guiry.

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Pelvetia canaliculata (Linnaeus) Decaisne & Thuret Claddagh, Galway, Ireland; sporelings recurving towards the substratum and clustered together to conserve moisture

Publication details
Pelvetia canaliculata (Linnaeus) Decaisne & Thuret 1845: 13

Original publication: Decaisne, J. & Thuret, G. (1845). Recherches sur les anthéridies et les spores de quelques Fucus. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Botanique, Troisième série 3: 5-15, pls 1, 2: 40 figs.
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Type species
This is the type species (holotype) of the genus Pelvetia.

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

Basionym
Fucus canaliculatus Linnaeus

Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), canaliculate, with a longitudinal channel or groove (Stearn 1973).

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Fucus canaliculatus Linnaeus 1767
Halidrys canaliculata (Linnaeus) Stackhouse 1809
Ascophyllum canaliculatum (Linnaeus) Kuntze 1891
Ascophylla canaliculata (Linnaeus) Kuntze 1891

General environment
This is a marine species.

Common names

(as Pelvetia canaliculata (Linnaeus) Decaisne & Thuret)
English: Channeled Wrack (Dickinson 1963).

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Fucus canaliculatus Linnaeus)
Ireland: Wexford (Tighe 1803).

Europe: Ireland (Tighe 1803).

(as Pelvetia canaliculata (Linnaeus) Decaisne & Thuret)
Ireland: Antrim (Adams 1907, Guiry 1978, Morton 1994), Clare (Guiry 1978, De Valéra & Cooke 1979), Cork (Renouf 1931, Cullinane 1971, Cullinane, McCarthy & Fletcher 1975, Guiry 1978), Derry (Guiry 1978, Morton 1994), Donegal (Guiry 1978, Morton 2003), Down (Morton 1974, Guiry 1978, Morton 1994), Dublin (Guiry 1978), Galway (Guiry 1978), Kerry (Guiry 1978), Limerick (Cullinane 1969, Guiry 1978), Louth (Synnott 1969, Guiry 1978), Mayo (Cotton 1912, Guiry 1978), Waterford (Guiry 1978), Wexford (Cotton 1913, Parkes & Scannell 1969, Norton 1970, Guiry 1978).

Europe: Britain (Newton 1931, Hardy & Guiry 2003, Cho et al. 2006), Faroes (Irvine 1982, Nielsen & Gunnarsson 2001), France (Feldmann 1954, Coppejans 1995, Dizerbo & Herpe 2007, Loiseaux-de Goër & Noailles 2008), Iceland (Caram & Jónsson 1972), Ireland (Adams 1907, Cotton 1912, Cotton 1913, Cullinane 1969, Cullinane 1971, Guiry 1978, De Valéra et al. 1979, Morton 1994), Netherlands (Stegenga & Mol 1983), Norway (Rueness 1997), Portugal (De Mesquita Rodrigues 1963, Ardré 1970, Araujo et al. 2009, Araújo, Bárbara & Sousa-Pinto in press), Scandinavia (Athanasiadis 1996), Spain (Miranda 1931, Pérez-Cirera & Maldonado 1982, Fernández & Niell 1982, Anadón 1983, Pérez-Cirera 1989, Granja, Cremades & Barbara 1992, Bárbara & Cremades 1996, Veiga, Cremades & Bárbara 1998, Veiga Villar 1999, Calvo & Bárbara 2002, Peña & Bárbara 2002, Gorostiaga et al., 2004, Bárbara et al. 2005).

(as Pelvetia canaliculata var. libera S.M.Baker)
Ireland: Down (Morton 1994).

Europe: Ireland (Morton 1994).

(as Pelvetia canaliculata f. interposita Lami)
Europe: Portugal (De Mesquita Rodrigues 1963).

(as Pelvetia canaliculata f. acultilobata (Lami) Ardré)
Europe: Portugal (De Mesquita Rodrigues 1963).

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

Cho, G.Y, Rousseau, F., Reviers, B. de & Boo, S.M. (2006). Phylogenetic relationships within the Fucales (Phaeophyceae) assessed by the photosystem I coding psaA sequences. Phycologia 45: 512-519.

Loiseaux-de Goër, S. & Noailles, M.-C. (2008). Algues de Roscoff. pp. [1]-215, col. figs. Roscoff: Editions de la Station Biologique de Roscoff.

SAG Cultures
No records have been found on the SAG site.

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 31 March 1996 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 10 November 2008 by M.D. Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 7532 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.)

Ardré, F. (1969). Remarques sur le Pelvetia canaliculata (L.) Dec. et Thur.. Proceedings of the International Seaweed Symposium 6: 31-40.
Dizerbo, A.H. (1960). Pelvetia canaliculata (L.) Dcne et Thur. var libera S.M. Baker (algues, Fucales), sa présence dans le Nord Finistère, sa valeur taxonomique.. Bulletin de la Société Phycologique de France 6: .
Fischer-Piette, E. (1957). Pelvetia canaliculata examinée de proche en proche de la manche au Portugal.. Mus. Nat Hist. Paris : 65-73.
Hardy, F.G. & Moss, B.L. (1979). Attachment and development of the zygotes of Pelvetia canaliculata (L.) Dcne. et Thur. (Phaeophyceae, Fucales). Phycologia 18: 203-212, 14 figs.
Isaac, W.E. (1933). Some observations and experiments on the drought resistance of Pelvetia canaliculata. Annals of Botany 47: 343-348.
Jensen, A. (1969). Seasonal variations in the content of individual tocopherols in Ascophyllum nodosum, Pelvetia canaliculata and Fucus serratus (Phaeophyceae). Proceedings of the International Seaweed Symposium 6: 493-500.
Kremer, B.P. (1973). Investigations on the physiology of volemitol in the marine brown alga Pelvetia canaliculata. Marine Biology, Berlin 22: 31-35.
Kremer, B.P. (1973). Untersuchungen zur pysiologie von volemit in der Braunalge Pelvetia canaliculata. Marine Biology 22: 31-35.
Kremer, B.P. (1977). Biosynthesis of polyols in Pelvetia canaliculata. Z. Pflanzenphysiol. 81: 68-73.
Liem, P.Q. & Laur, M.H. (1976). Teneur, composition et répartition cytologique des lipides polaires soufrés et phosphorés de Pelvetia canaliculata (L.), Decn. et Thur., Fucus vesiculosis (L.) et Fucus serratus (L.). Phycologia 15: 367-376, 3 tables.
Margalet, J.L. & Navarro, M.J. (1992). Mapas de distribución de algas marinas de la Península Ibérica. II. Ascophyllum nodosum (L.) Le Jolis, Pelvetia canaliculata (L.) Decne. et Thur e Himanthalia elongata (L.) S.F.Gray. Botanica Complutensis 17: 117-132.
Moss, B. (1974). Attachment and germination of the zygotes of Pelvetia canaliculata (L.) Dcne. et Thur. (Phaeophyceae, Fucales). Phycologia 13: 317-322.
Oliveira Filho, E.C. de & Fletcher, A. (1977). Comparative observations on some physiological aspects of rocky-shore and salt marsh populations of Pelvetia canaliculata (Phaeophyta). Bol. Bot. Univ. S. Paulo 5: 1-12.
Oliveira Filho, E.C. de & Fletcher, A. (1980). Taxonomic and ecological relationships between rocky-shore and saltmarsh populations of Pelvetia canaliculata (Phaeophyta) at Four Mile Bridge, Anglesey, UK. Botanica Marina 23: 409-417.
Pfetzing, J., Stengel, D.B., Cuffe, M.M., Savage, A.V. & Guiry, M.D. (2000). Effects of temperature and prolonged emersion on photosynthesis, carbohydrate content and growth of the brown intertidal alga Pelvetia canaliculata. Botanica Marina 43: 399-407.
Rugg, D.A. & Norton, T.A. (1987). Pelvetia canaliculata, a high-shore seaweed that shuns the sea. In: Plant life in Aquatic and Amphibious Habitats. (Crawford, R.M.M. Eds), pp. 347-358. Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications.
Subrahmanyan, R. (1957). Observations on the anatomy, cytology, development of the reproductive structures of Pelvetia canaliculata Dcne. et Thur. Pert III. The liberation of reproductive bodies, fertilization and embryology. Journal of the Indian Botanical Society 36: 373-395.
Subrahmanyan, R. (1960). Ecological studies on the Fucales I. Pelvetia canaliculata Dcne. et Thur.. Journal of the Indian Botanical Society 39: 614-630.