Predaea laciniosa Kraft 1984

Predaea laciniosa Kraft

Current name: Predaea laciniosa Kraft
Heron Island, QueenslandJ.M. Huisman

Publication Details
Predaea laciniosa Kraft 1984: 11, figs 25-35

Published in: Kraft, G.T. (1984). The red algal genus Predaea (Nemastomataceae, Gigartinales) in Australia. Phycologia 23: 3-20, 43 figs.

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Type Species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Predaea is Predaea masonii (Setchell & N.L.Gardner) G.De Toni.

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

Type Information
Type locality: Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia; (Kraft 1984: 11) Holotype: MELU; K15426 - Figs 25, 26 (Kraft 1984: 11) Notes: Type locality: Coral Gardens, Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Holotype MELU K15426 (South & Skelton, 2003: 728).

Origin of Species Name
Adjective (Latin), laciniate.

General Environment
This is a marine species.

Description
Thallus: gelatinous, slippery, soft to turgid, 2-5 cm high, pink to rose-red; branching irregular. Main axis to 1 cm thick, irregularly lobed, in more than one plane; apices bluntly rounded. Medulla of loosely arranged longitudinal filaments (2-3 µm diam.) within mucilaginous gel. Cortical filaments radial, dichotomously branched, deeply pigmented; cells ovoid, 4-5 µm diam.; gland cells spherical, intercalary, rare,13-26 µm diam. Spermatangia spherical, 2-3 µm diam., 1-2 terminal on apical or subapical cells. Cystocarps ovoid, 78-126 µm diam.; carposporangia ovoid to spherical, tightly packed, 4-8 µm diam. (http://biogeodb.stri.si.edu/pacificalgae/specie/110).

Habitat
Rare: on rocks, coral rubble, or crustose corallines; to 10 m deep.

Created: 09 November 1999 by M.D. Guiry.

Last updated: 16 January 2020

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