Spirophycus acicularis A.J.K.Millar 2000

Publication Details
Spirophycus acicularis A.J.K.Millar 2000: 88, figs. 1-24

Published in: Millar, A.J.K. (2000). Spirophycus acicularis, a new red algal genus and species in the Lophothalieae (Rhodomelaceae, Ceramiales) from eastern Australia. Phycologia 39: 87-95.

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Type Species
This is the type species (holotype) of the genus Spirophycus.

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

Type Information
Type locality: Approximately 100 m south east of rock platform at Minnie Water (29°47'S, 153°18'E), New South Wales, Australia; (Millar 2000: 88) Holotype: A.J.K. Millar & K.L. Christian; 3 June 1998; Growing on stalks of polychaete tube worms, at 12 m depth; NSW; 425832 (Millar 2000: 88) Notes: Solitary islands Marine Park, on the northern New South Wales coast of eastern Australia, near Coff Harbour Millar 2000: 87)

Origin of Species Name
Adjective B (Latin), acicular, i.e., narrow, stiff, pointed like a needle (Stearn 1973).

General Environment
This is a marine species.

Description
Thalli erect, to 30 mm tall, subdichotomously branched, ecorticate; polysiphonous segments to 60 µm x 60 µm near apices, up to 240 µm broad x 100 µm long in median parts, to 200 µm long x 600 µm broad at base. Trichoblasts narrow at bases (up to 20 µm in diameter), inflated in median portions (60- 100 µm diameter), to 2 3 cells in length ( 3 mm), tapering to pointed apical cell; scar cells to 70 µm in diameter; not all periaxial cells of the spermatangial branches producing mother cells and thus spermatangia.

Created: 09 July 2006 by M.D. Guiry.

Last updated: 25 April 2011

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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 25 April 2011. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 19 March 2024

 
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