Woelkerlingia sterreri C.W.Schneider & M.J.Wynne 2008
Publication Details
Woelkerlingia sterreri C.W.Schneider & M.J.Wynne 2008: 305, figs 1-12
Published in: Schneider, C.W. & Wynne, M.J. (2009 '2008'). Notes on the marine algae of the Bermudas. 10. Woelkerlingia sterreri sp. nov. (Rhodophyta, Wrangeliaceae), a first record of the genus in the western Atlantic. Caribbean Journal of Science 44: 303-310, 12 figs.
Request PDFType Species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Woelkerlingia is Woelkerlingia minuta Alongi, Comaci & G.Furnari.
Status of Name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Type Information
Type locality: Tobacco Bay, St George’s Island, Bermuda, western Atlantic (32° 23.333’N, 64° 40.733’W); (Schneider & Wynne 2009: 305) Holotype: C.W. Schneider and C.E. Lane 03-52-4; 8.x.2003; on a discarded piece of nylon rope from 3 m; MICH; (Schneider & Wynne 2009: 305) Notes: Isotypes CAT, MSM, NY, US, Herb. CWS].
Eponomy
Named for Dr. Wolfgang Sterrer, former director of the Bermuda Natural History Museum, a marine zoologist
General Environment
This is a marine species.
Description
Plants decumbent and erect, prostrate axes producing erect branches to
2-3 mm tall from median positions on dorsal surfaces of axial cells, and attaching by unicellular
rhizoids with digitate haptera issuing
centrally from the ventral surfaces of
the same cells; prostrate axial
cells 24-34 µm diam. and 30-106 µm long;
erect axes simple to sparingly, unilaterally
and irregularly branched, branches arising
from the distal ends of bearing cells; erect axes composed of cells 17-24 µm
diam. and 65-100 (-120) µm long, of same
diameter from base to apex; apical cells often
cytoplasmically dense; sporangia terminal
on 1(-2)-celled, oppositely to irregularly
produced lateral branches on distal ends of
erect axial cells; sporangial branches in median
portions of erect axes; sporangia tetrahedrally
divided or further dividing
into 8-16 spores; sporangia
obovoid to globose, 24-43 µm in diameter;
gametophytes dioecious, spermatangia
borne terminally in compact heads on erect
branches; female fertile filament terminal
on an erect branch, later overtopped
by a subtending branch; female
fertile filaments comprised of 2 or 3 cells, the
basal cell bearing the carpogonial branch and
affiliated cells; carposporophytes
unknown.
Created: 17 April 2009 by M.D. Guiry.
Last updated: 17 April 2009
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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 17 April 2009. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 18 May 2025
