Blidingia ramifera (Bliding) Garbary & L.B.Barkhouse

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Chlorophyta
Class Ulvophyceae
Order Ulvales
Family Kornmanniaceae
Genus Blidingia

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Publication details
Blidingia ramifera (Bliding) Garbary & L.B.Barkhouse 1987: 259

Original publication: Garbary, D.J. & Barkhouse, L.B. (1987). Blidingia ramifera (Bliding) stat. nov. (Chlorophyta): a new marine alga for eastern North America. Nordic Journal of Botany 7: 359-363.

Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Blidingia is Blidingia minima (Nägeli ex Kützing) Kylin.

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

Basionym
Blidingia minima var. ramifera Bliding

Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), branch-bearing (Stearn 1973).

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Blidingia minima var. ramifera Bliding 1963

General environment
This is a marine species.

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Blidingia minima var. ramifera Bliding)
Arctic: Canada (Arctic) (Lee 1980).

Europe: Adriatic (Giaccone 1978, Gallardo et al. 1993), Spain (Ballesteros & Romero 1982, Gallardo et al. 1985, Gallardo et al. 1993, Flores-Moya et al. 1995).

South-west Asia: Levant states (Gallardo et al. 1993).

(as Blidingia ramifera (Bliding) Garbary & L.B.Barkhouse)
Europe: Ireland (Guiry 2012), Italy (Furnari, Cormaci & Serio 1999), Spain (Bárbara, Cremades & Pérez-Cirera 1995, Bárbara & Cremades 1996, Bárbara & Cremades 1996, Calvo & Bárbara 2002, Peña & Bárbara 2002, Bárbara et al., 2003, Bárbara et al. 2005), Veneto (Sfriso, A.).

Central America: México (Pacific) (Pedroche et al. 2005).

Key references
Lindstrom, S.C., Hanic, L.A. & Golden, L. (2006). Studies of the green alga Percursaria dawsonii (=Blidingia dawsonii comb. nov., Kornmanniaceae, Ulvales) in British Columbia. Phycological Research 54(1): 40-56, 3 tables, 19 figs.

Pedroche, F.F., Silva, P.C., Aguilar-Rosas, L.E., Dreckmann, K.M. & Aguilar-Rosas, R. (2005). Catálogo de las algas marinas bentónicas del Pacífico de México. I. Chlorophycota. pp. i-viii, 17-146. Ensenada, México: Universidad Autónoma de Baja California.

Sfriso, A. (2011). Chlorophyta multicellulari e fanerogame acquatiche. Ambiente di transizione italiani e litorali adiacenti. pp. [1]-318, pls 1-94. Bologna: Arpa Emilia-Romagna.

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

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=Blidingia&Species=ramifera

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 23 August 1996 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 11 June 2012 by Michael Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 715 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.)

Garbary, D.J. & Barkhouse, L.B. (1987). Blidingia ramifera (Bliding) stat. nov. (Chlorophyta): a new marine alga for eastern North America. Nordic Journal of Botany 7: 359-363.

Linking to this page: http://www.algaebase.org/search/species/detail/?species_id=930

Citing AlgaeBase
Cite this record as:
Michael Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2013. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org; searched on 24 May 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:76606