Himanthalia elongata (Linnaeus) S.F.Gray

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Chromista
Phylum Ochrophyta
Class Phaeophyceae
Order Fucales
Family Himanthaliaceae
Genus Himanthalia

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Spain. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

Spiddal, Co. Galway, Ireland; young plants in pools in spring . 29 Mar 2012. M.D. Guiry. © M.D. Guiry (mikeguiry@me.com).

Spiddal, Co. Galway, Ireland; young spring plants in pools. 29 Mar 2012. M.D. Guiry. © M.D. Guiry (mikeguiry@me.com).

Spiddal, Co. Galway, Ireland; young spring plants on rock. 29 Mar 2012. M.D. Guiry. © M.D. Guiry (mikeguiry@me.com).

Finavarra, Co. Clare, Ireland; buttons under water.. 17 May 2011. M.D. Guiry. © M.D. Guiry (mike.guiry@nuigalway.ie).

Himanthalia elongata, Spanish Point, Co. Clare, Ireland. 28 Aug 2010. M.D. Guiry. © Michael Guiry (mike.guiry@nuigalway.ie).

Himanthalia elongata buttons, Spanish Point, Co. Clare, Ireland. 28 Aug 2010. M.D. Guiry. © Michael Guiry (mike.guiry@nuigalway.ie).

Spain, Galicia, Ría de Arousa, 2009. Ignacio Barbára. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

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Himanthalia elongata (Linnaeus) S.F.Gray Kilkee, Co. Clare, Ireland; buttons in rock pools

Publication details
Himanthalia elongata (Linnaeus) S.F.Gray 1821: 389

Original publication: Gray, S.F. (1821). A natural arrangement of British plants, according to their relations to each other, as pointed out by Jussieu, De Candolle, Brown, &c. including those cultivated for use; with an introduction to botany, in which the terms newly introduced are explained; illustrated by figures. pp. vol. 1: [i]-xxviii, [1]- 824, pls I-XXI plates. London: Printed for Baldwin, Cradock & Joy, Paternoster-Row.
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Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Himanthalia is Himanthalia lorea (Linnaeus) Lyngbye.

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

Basionym
Fucus elongatus Linnaeus

Type information
Type locality: Habitat inter Angliam & Hispaniam [Living between England and Spain] (Linnaeus 1753: 1159).

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

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Fucus elongatus Linnaeus 1753

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Spongia dichotoma Hudson 1762
Fucus loreus Linnaeus 1767
Fucus pruniformis Gunnerus 1772
Fucus tomentosus Hudson 1778
Ulva tomentosa (Hudson) De Candolle 1805
Funicularius tuberculatus Roussel 1806
Himanthalia lorea (Linnaeus) Lyngbye 1819
Himanthalia elongata var. ß inequalis S.F.Gray 1821

General environment
This is a marine species.

Common names

(as Himanthalia lorea (Linnaeus) Lyngbye)
Gaeilge: Ruadhálach, Ruadhánach, Ruabhánach, Ríseach, Raif, Sreanga (Brennan 1950).

(as Himanthalia elongata (Linnaeus) S.F.Gray)
English: Sea thong (Duddington 1966), Thongweed, Buttonweed, Sea Haricots, Sea Spaghetti (Anon. 2000), Thong Weed (Bunker et al. 2010).

French: Spaghetti de Mer (Anon. 2000).

Gaeilge: Ríseach (Anonymous 1978), Ruálach, Ruánach, Imleacán cloch, Raif (Anon. 2000).

German: Riementang (Braune 2008).

Portuguese: Cintas, Cordas, Corriolas (Oliveira, 1990).

Distribution by country

Point data for Ireland and Britain

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

Europe: Ireland (Tighe 1803).

(as Fucus tomentosus Hudson)
Africa: Ghana (Price, John & Lawson 1978).

(as Himanthalia lorea (Linnaeus) Lyngbye)
Ireland: Antrim (Drummond 1837, Hanna 1902, Adams 1907), Cork (Renouf 1931), Mayo (Cotton 1912), Sligo (Cullinane 1970), Wexford (Cotton 1913).

Europe: Britain (Newton 1931), Ireland (Adams 1907, Cotton 1912, Cotton 1913), Spain (Miranda 1931).

(as Himanthalia elongata (Linnaeus) S.F.Gray)
Ireland: Antrim (Morton 1994), Clare (Guiry 1978, De Valéra et al. 1979), Cork (Cullinane 1971, Cullinane, McCarthy & Fletcher 1975, Guiry 1978), Derry (Morton 1994), Donegal (Guiry 1978, Morton 2003), Down (Morton 1994), Dublin (Roden 1981), Galway (Guiry 1978), Kerry (Guiry 1978), Mayo (Guiry 1978), Waterford (Guiry 1978), Wexford (Parkes & Scannell 1969, Norton 1970, Guiry 1978).

Scotland: Scotland (Marconi et al. 2011).

Europe: Baltic Sea (Nielsen et al. 1995), Britain (Hardy & Guiry 2003), Faroe Islands (Irvine 1982, Nielsen & Gunnarsson 2001), France (Feldmann 1954, Coppejans 1995, Cho et al. 2006, Dizerbo & Herpe 2007, Loiseaux-de Goër & Noailles 2008, Silberfeld et al. 2011, Anon. 2012), Helgoland (Bartsch & Kuhlenkamp 2000), Ireland (Cullinane 1971, Guiry 1978, De Valéra et al. 1979, Morton 1994, Guiry 2012), Netherlands (Stegenga & Mol 1983), Norway (Rueness 1997), Portugal (De Mesquita Rodrigues 1963, Ardré 1970, Araujo, R., I. Bárbara, I. Sousa-Pinto & V. Quintino (2005), Araújo et al. 2006, Araujo et al. 2009, Araújo, Bárbara & Sousa-Pinto in press), Scandinavia (Athanasiadis 1996), Spain (Pérez-Cirera & Maldonado 1982, Gallardo & Pérez-Cirera 1982, Fernández, Niell & Anadón 1983, Anadón 1983, Pérez-Cirera 1989, Perez-Cirera, Cremades, Bárbara & Lopez 1991, Granja, Cremades & Barbara 1992, Bárbara, Cremades & Pérez-Cirera 1995, Bárbara & Cremades 1996, Veiga, Cremades & Bárbara 1998, Veiga Villar 1999, Peña & Bárbara 2002, Lagos & Cremades 2004, Bárbara et al. 2005, Lobón et al. 2008, Viejo et al. 2008, Cires Rodriguez & Cuesta Moliner 2010).

Nomenclatural notes
The combination was also proposed by Setchell (1931: 362).

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.

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.

Gallardo Garciá, T. & Pérez-Ruzafa, I.M. (2001). Himanthalia Lyngb. In: Flora phycologica iberica Vol. 1 Fucales. (Gómez Garreta, A. Eds) Vol.1, pp. 69-71. Murcia: Universidad de Murcia.

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

Setchell, W.A. (1931). Some early algal confusions. University of California Publications in Botany 16: 351-366.

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

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=Himanthalia&Species=elongata

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 16337 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.)

Cox, S., Gupta, S. & Abu-Ghannam, N. (2011). Application of response surface methodology to study the influence of hydrothermal processing on phytochemical constituents of the Irish edible brown seaweed Himanthalia elongata. Botanica Marina 54(5): 471-480.
Creed, J.C. (1995). Spatial dynamics of a Himanthalia elongata (Fucales, Phaeophyta) population. Journal of Phycology 31: 851-859, 6 figs, 3 tables.
Kitching, J.A. (1987). The flora and fauna associated with Himanthalia elongata (L.) S. F. Gray in relation to water current and wave action in the Lough Hyne marine nature reserve. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 25: 663-676.
Lagos, V. & Cremades, J. (2004). Contribución al conocimiento de la biología del alga parda alimentaria Himanthalia elongata (Fucales, Phaeophyta) en las costas de Galicia. Anales de Biología 26: 105-116.
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.
Martínez, B., Viejo, R.M., Calvo, S. & Carreño, F. (2009). Habitat model of Himanthalia elongata: Predictions in a warming up scenario. Algas, Bol. Soc. Esp. Ficología 42: 11.
Moss, B. (1952). Variations in chemical composition during the development of Himanthalia elongata (L.) S.F. Gray. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 31: 29-34.
Moss, B. (1958). Observations on the development and cytology of Himanthalia elongata (L.) S.F. Gray. British Phycological Bulletin 1(6): 31-32.
Moss, B. (1969). Apical meristems and growth control in Himanthalia elongata (S. F. Gray). New Phytologist 68: 387-397.
Moss, B., Mercer, S. & Sheader, A. (1973). Factors affecting the distribution of Himanthalia elongata (L.) S. F. Gray on the north-east coast of England. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science 1: 233-243.
Ramon, E. (1973). Germination and attachement of zygotes of Himanthalia elongata (L.) S.F. Gray. Journal of Phycology 9: 445-449.
Reed, R.H., Wright, P.J., Chudek, J.A. & Hunter, G. (1995). Turnover of hexitols in the marine macroalga Himanthalia elongata (Phaeophyta, Fucales). European Journal Phycology 30: 169-177.
Russell, G. & Wareing, A.-M. (1979). The Herponema velutinum-Himanthalia elongata coincidence. British Phycological Journal 14: 128.
Salgado, J.M. & Niell, F.X. (1974). The structure of a population of epiphytes on Himanthalia elongata. Investigacion Pesquera 38: 305-324.
Stengel, D.B., Wilkes, R.J. & Guiry, M.D. (1999). Seasonal growth and recruitment of Himanthalia elongata (Fucales, Phaeophycota) in different habitats on the Irish west coast. European Journal of Phycology 34: 213-221, 6 figs.
Wright, P.J., Chudek, J.A., Foster, R., Davison, I.R. & Reed, R.H. (1985). The occurrence of altritol in the brown alga Himanthalia elongata. British Phycological Journal 20: 191-192.
Xavier Niell, F. (1984). Variación estacional de la concentración de clorofila a en los tejidos de tres macrófitos intermareales de la ría de Vigo (NO de España): Himanthalia elongata (L.) S.F. Gray, Saccorhiza polyscides (Light.) Batt. y Laminaria ochroleuca Pyl.. Investigacion Pesquera 48(1): 71-102.

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Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2013. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org; searched on 26 May 2013.

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