Bifurcaria bifurcata R.Ross
Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Chromista
Subkingdom Chromobiota
Infrakingdom Heterokonta
Phylum Heterokontophycophyta
Class Phaeophyceae
Order Fucales
Family Sargassaceae
Genus Bifurcaria
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Spain, Galicia, A Coruña, Ría de A Coruña, 2004, intertidal. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara.
Spanish Point, Co. Clare, Ireland; mid intertidal pools. 04 Aug 2004. Michael Guiry. © Michael Guiry.
Kilkee, Co. Clare, Ireland; upper-shore pools; fertile recpetacles. 25 Mar 2005. Michael Guiry. © Michael Guiry.
Kilkee, Co. Clare, Ireland; lower-shore rock. In Ireland, this species is only rarely found gowing outside of rock-pools in the md-intertidal. 25 Mar 2005. Michael Guiry. © Michael Guiry.
Black Head. M.D. Guiry. © M.D. Guiry.
Spain, Galicia, A Coruña, 2009. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara.
Bifurcaria bifurcata R.Ross Spain, Galicia, A Coruña, Ría de A Coruña, 2004, intertidal
Publication details
Bifurcaria bifurcata R.Ross 1958: 754
Original publication: Ross, R. (1958). The type species of Bifurcaria Stackhouse. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Botany 55: 753-754.
Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Bifurcaria is Bifurcaria tuberculata Stackhouse.
Status of name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), bifurcate.
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Fucus rotundatus Hudson
Fucus tuberculatus Hudson 1778
Fucus bifurcatus Velley 1792
Bifurcaria tuberculata Stackhouse 1809
Pycnophycus tuberculatus (Stackhouse) Kützing 1843
Ascophylla tuberculatum Kuntze 1891
General environment
This is a marine species.
Type information
Type locality: “Prope St Ives in Cornubia” (St Ives, Cornwall, England) (Stackhouse 1809).
Detailed distribution with sources
(as Bifurcaria tuberculata Stackhouse)
Ireland: Antrim (Adams 1907), Galway (Cotton 1912).
Europe: Britain (Newton 1931), Ireland (Adams 1907, Cotton 1912, Newton 1931), Spain (Miranda 1931).
Africa: Morocco (Gil-Rodriguez & Socorro Hernández 1986).
(as Bifurcaria bifurcata R.Ross)
Ireland: Antrim (Guiry 1978, Morton 1994), Clare (De Valéra 1962, Guiry 1978, De Valéra et al. 1979), Cork (Cullinane 1971, Guiry 1978), Donegal (De Valéra 1962, Guiry 1978, Morton 2003), Galway (De Valéra 1962, Guiry 1978, De Valéra et al. 1979), Kerry (Guiry 1978), Mayo (De Valéra 1962, Guiry 1978), Sligo (De Valéra 1962, Cullinane 1970, Guiry 1978).
Europe: Britain (Hardy & Guiry 2003), France (Cho et al. 2006, Dizerbo & Herpe 2007 
, Loiseaux-de Goër & Noailles 2008), Ireland (Cullinane 1971, Guiry 1978, De Valéra et al. 1979, Morton 1994), Netherlands (Stegenga & Mol 1983), Portugal (De Mesquita Rodrigues 1963, Ardré 1970, Araujo et al. 2009, Araújo, Bárbara & Sousa-Pinto in press), Spain (Pérez-Cirera & Maldonado 1982, Gallardo & Pérez-Cirera 1982, Fernández & Niell 1982, Fernández, Niell & Anadón 1983, Anadón 1983, Sierra & Fernández 1984, Anadón & Fernández 1986, Granja, Cremades & Barbara 1992, Bárbara & Cremades 1996, Veiga, Cremades & Bárbara 1998, Veiga Villar 1999, Peña & Bárbara 2002, Sánchez, Fernández & Rico 2003, Gorostiaga et al., 2004, Bárbara et al. 2005, Diaz-Tapia & Bárbara 2005, Sánchez & Fernández 2005, Sánchez et al 2005, Lobón et al. 2008, Viejo et al. 2008).
Africa: Western Sahara (John et al. 2004).
Nomenclatural notes
John et al. (2004) cite the authority for this species as (Velley) R. Ross.
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.
Delf, E.M. (1935). Liberation of oogonia in Bifurcaria and other members of the Fucaceae. New Phytologist 34: 245-259, 8 figs.
Gallardo Garciá, T. (2001). Bifurcaria Stackh. In: Flora phycologica iberica Vol. 1 Fucales. (Gómez Garreta, A. Eds), pp. 91-93. 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.
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 2350 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.)
Culioli, G., Daoudi, M., Ortalo-Magne, A., Valls, R. & Piovetti, L. (2001). (S)-12-hydroxygeranylgeraniol-derived diterpenes from the brown alga Bifurcaria bifurcata. Phytochemistry 57: 529-535.
De Valéra, M. (1962). Some aspects of the problem of the distribution of Bifurcaria bifurcata (Velley) Ross on the shores of Ireland, north of the Shannon Estuary. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 62B: 77-101.
Fernández, C., Niell, F.X. & Anadón, R. (1983). Comparación de dos comunidades de horizontes intermareales con abundancia de Bifurcaria bifurcata Ros. en las costas N y NO de España. Investigacion Pesquera 47(3): 435-455.
Hardy, F.G. & Moss, B.L. (1979). Notes on the attachment of zygotes and germlings of Bifurcaria bifurcata Ross (Phaeophyceae, Fucales) (Note). Phycologia 18: 164-165.
Le Lann, K., Jégou, C. & Stiger-Pouvreau, V. (2008). Effect of different conditioning treatments on total phenolic content and antioxidant activities in two Sargassacean species: Comparison of the frondose Sargassum muticum (Yendo) Fensholt and the cylindrical Bifurcaria bifurcata R. Ross. Phycological Research 56(4): 238-245.
Margalet, J.L. & Navarro M.J. (1990). Mapas de distribución de algas marinas de la Península Ibérica. I. Bifurcaria bifurcata R.Ross y Halydris siliquosa (L.) Lyngb. Botanica Complutensis 16: 99-107.
Valls, R., Piovetti, L., Banaigs, B., Archavlis, A. & Pellegrini, M. (1995). (S)-13-hydroxygeranylgeraniol-derived furanoditerpenes from Bifurcaria bifurcata. Phytochemistry 39: 145-149.
