Bibliographic Detail
Coppejans, E., Leliaert, F., Verbruggen, H., Prathep, A. & De Clerck, O., 2011
Reference:
Coppejans, E., Leliaert, F., Verbruggen, H., Prathep, A. & De Clerck, O. (2011). Rhipidosiphon lewmanomontiae sp. nov. (Bryopsidales, Chlorophyta), a calcified udoteacean alga from the central Indo-Pacific based on morphological and molecular investigations. Phycologia 50(4): 403-412.
Publication Date:
2011
Abstract:
A new species of the green algal genus Rhipidosiphon, Rhipidosiphon lewmanomontiae sp. nov., is described after material
from the Mu Ko Tha Lae Tai area (SE Thailand) and Okinawa (Japan) on the basis of morphology and molecular
analyses. The new species grows epilithically, just under the low water mark and is occasionally exposed at spring low
tide. It differs mainly from the other known species, the Indo-Pacific Rhipidosiphon javensis and the western Atlantic
Rhipidosiphon floridensis, by the presence of a rhizoidal pseudocortex surrounding the monosiphonous stipe and the
presence of intercalary siphon constrictions. A similar pseudocortex has been described in juvenile stages of some
Udotea species, but in this genus, the stipe is polysiphonous and possesses a cortex of lateral appendages in the adult
phase.
