Kappaphycus striatus (F.Schmitz) L.M.Liao 1996

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Subkingdom Biliphyta
Phylum Rhodophyta
Subphylum Eurhodophytina
Class Florideophyceae
Subclass Rhodymeniophycidae
Order Gigartinales
Family Solieriaceae
Genus Kappaphycus

• Uses and Compounds
• Aquaculture Data
• Taxonomy
• References
• Submit Feedback
• Submit Reference
• Links
• Genbank
• Index Nominum Algarum
• Google
• Biodiversity Heritage Library

Pictures

click on thumbnail for larger version.

Palau Islands, West Pacific. Hideo Ohba. © Palau International Coral Reef Center.

Palau Islands, West Pacific. Hideo Ohba. © Palau International Coral Reef Center.

Green color mutant. Palau Islands, West Pacific, 1 m deep. 07 Dec 2004. Hideo Ohba. © Palau International Coral Reef Center.

Palau Islands, West Pacific, 1 m deep. 07 Dec 2004. Hideo Ohba. © Palau International Coral Reef Center.

Hawaii; scale is 5 mm. 01 Jan 0001. J.M. Huisman. © J.M. Huisman.

Tanzania. Katrin Østerlund. © Katrin Oesterlund (Katrin.Osterlund@uadm.uu.se).

Kappaphycus striatus (F.Schmitz) L.M.Liao Palau Islands, West Pacific
© Palau International Coral Reef Center

Publication details
Kappaphycus striatus (F.Schmitz) L.M.Liao 1996: 158 (as 'striatum' )

Published in: Liao, L.M. (1996). Validation of names transferred to Kappaphycus Doty from Eucheuma J. Agardh (Rhodophyta: Solieriaceae). The Philippine Journal of Science 125(2): 158-160, no figs.
 Download PDF

Publication date: "April-June 1996"

Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Kappaphycus is Kappaphycus alvarezii (Doty) L.M.Liao.

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

Basionym
Eucheuma striatum F.Schmitz

Type information
Type locality: Zanzibar, Tanzania (Silva & al. 1996: 334). Holotype: Dr. Stuhlmann; Hamburg (Doty 1988: 173, 177). Notes: Doty (1988: 173, 177) notes that at Leiden there is an isotype received (Weber-van Bosse 1926) from H. Winkler of the Hamburg Herbarium and that there is a tiny isotype, an exsicattum, in the British Museum.

Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), striped or fluted.

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Eucheuma striatum F.Schmitz 1895

Nomenclatural notes
The ending is treated as masculine in accordance with the provision in the Vienna Code (Art. 62C): (c) Compounds ending in -ceras, -dendron, -nema, -stigma, -stoma, and other neuter words, are neuter. An exception is made for names ending in -anthos (or -anthus), -chilos (-chilus or -cheilos), and -phykos (-phycos or -phycus), which ought to be neuter, since that is the gender of the Greek words anthos, cheilos, and phykos, but are treated as masculine in accordance with botanical tradition. - (8 Dec 2009) - M.D. Guiry

Distributional notes
Introduced in Fiji (N'Yeurt et al., 1996) and Hawaiian Islands (Abbott, 1999).

General environment
This is a marine species.

Detailed distribution with sources (Click to Load)

Key references
Doty, M.S. (1988). Podromus ad systematica Eucheumatoideorum: a tribe of commercial seaweeds related to Eucheuma (Solieriaceae, Gigartinales). In: Taxonomy of economic seaweeds with reference to some Pacific and Caribbean species. (Abbott, I.A. Eds) Vol.2, pp. 159-207. La Jolla: California Sea Grant College Program [Report T-CSGCP-018].

Huisman, J.M., Abbott, I.A., Smith, C.M. (2007). Hawaiian reef plants. pp. [1]-264, numerous colour photographs. Honolulu: A publication of the University of Hawai'i Sea Grant College Program.

Mendoza, W.G., Ganzon-Fortes, E.T., Villanueva, R.D., Romero, J.B. & Montano, M.N.E. (2006). Tissue age as a factor affecting carrageenan quantity and quality in framed Kappaphycus striatum (Schmitz) Doty ex Silva. Botanica Marina 49: 57-64.

Silva, P.C., Basson, P.W. & Moe, R.L. (1996). Catalogue of the benthic marine algae of the Indian Ocean. University of California Publications in Botany 79: [i]-xiv, 1-1259.

Created: 19 January 1998 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 30 June 2020 by M.D. Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 5394 times since it was created.

Verification of data
Users are responsible for verifying the accuracy of information before use, as noted on the website Content page.

Linking to this page: http://www.algaebase.org/search/species/detail/?species_id=2814

Citing AlgaeBase
Cite this record as:
M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2021. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org; searched on 19 January 2021.