Porphyra inaequicrassa Perestenko 1980
Current name:
Porphyra inaequicrassa Perestenko
Plants growing on Chorda filum. Peter the Great Bay, Russia. (Photo O.S. Belous). - 29 February 2012. Eduard and Tamara Titlyanova (etitlyanov@mail.ru)
Publication Details
Porphyra inaequicrassa Perestenko 1980: 29 (key), 31, 193; figs 27, 28
Published in: Perestenko, L.P. (1980). Vodorosli Zaliva Petra Velikogo [The seaweeds of Peter the Great Bay]. pp. 231, 404 figures. Leningrad: NAUKA Leningradskoe Otdelenie.
Request PDFPublication date: 1980
Type Species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Porphyra is Porphyra purpurea (Roth) C.Agardh.
Status of Name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Type Information
Type locality: Furugelmi I., Peter the Great Bay, Siberia; (Perestenko 1980: 31) Type: A.N. Golikov; May. 16, 1965; on Chorda filum at 2.5 - 5 m depth; (Perestenko 1980: 31)
General Environment
This is a marine species.
Description
Thallus blade-like, growing in dense groups, reddish-purple, elongate-oval, widely-lanceolate, (8)935 cm long, 2.57 cm wide, monostromatic, (17)2138(85) m thick; sessile, with small disc-like attachment; cordate or rosette-like at base; margins undulate, lobed, entire or sometimes cleft. Cells from surface disordered, roundish, roundish-polygonal, rectangular, (15)1922.5×(15)22.531 m. In transverse section, cells palisade-like, of equal diameter or transversely elongate, 19.533×1556 m. Cell walls thick, to 12 m thick, becoming thinner to the margins. Plant dioecious. Spermatangia and gametangia develop along the margins thickening to 70 m. Growing on sandy-gravel bottom, in shallow bays and epiphytic on Chorda filum, intertidal to upper subtidal (35 m deep).
Note: This species is potential as human food.
Distribution: Low boreal, Pacific species. Okhotsk Sea, Sea of Japan.
Key Characteristics
This species is potential as human food.
Created: 10 October 1998 by M.D. Guiry.
Last updated: 26 October 2016
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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 26 October 2016. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 19 April 2024
