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Gibsmithia hawaiiensis Doty 1963

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

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

Palau Islands, West Pacific, 40 m deep. 22 Nov 2002. Hideo Ohba. © Palau International Coral Reef Center.

Hawaii; cartilagionus basal stalk; scale is 5 mm. 12 Aug 2011. J.M. Huisman. © J.M. Huisman.

KwaZulu-Natal. Heroen Verbruggen. © Heroen Verbruggen (heroen.verbruggen@gmail.com).

western outer slope, South Scott Reef, Western Australia, at 15 m depth. John Huisman. © John Huisman (j.huisman@murdoch.edu.au).

Heron I., Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia; in the middle of Wistari Channel at 36m depth.. 15 Aug 2011. John Huisman. © John Huisman (j.huisman@murdoch.edu.au).

Montebello Islands, Western Australia. John Huisman. © John Huisman (j.huisman@murdoch.edu.au).

Pacific Islands. 08 Dec 2004. Peter Skelton. © ORDA and Peter Skelton (skeltonp@bigpond.net.au).

Gibsmithia hawaiiensis Doty Montebello Islands, Western Australia
© John Huisman (j.huisman@murdoch.edu.au)

Publication details
Gibsmithia hawaiiensis Doty 1963: 458, figs 1-17

Published in: Doty, M.S. (1963). Gibsmithia hawaiiensis gen. n. et sp. n. Pacific Science 17(4): 458-465, 17 figs.
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Type species
This is the type species (holotype) of the genus Gibsmithia.

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

Type information
Type locality: Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaiian Islands (Doty 1963: 148). Holotype: BISH MSD 19263 (Yoshida 1998: 670). Notes: Type locality: Kaneohe Bay, Oahu, Hawaiian Islands (South & Skelton, 2003: 727).

Synonym(s)
No synonyms are currently included in AlgaeBase.

Taxonomic notes
According to Gabriel et al. (2016: 1), "Genetic distances suggest that G. hawaiiensis represents a complex of five cryptic species, with no difference observed in the external morphology corresponding to separate lineages." - (12 Oct 2016) - M.D. Guiry

General environment
This is a marine species.

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Key references
Gabriel, D., Driasma, S.G.A., Sauvage, T., Schmidt, W.E., Schils, T., Lim, P.-E., Harris, J. & Fredericq, S. (2016). Multilocus phylogeny reveals Gibsmithia hawaiiensis (Dumontiaceae, Rhodophyta) to be a species complex from the Indo-Pacific, with the proposal of G. eilatensis sp. nov. Phytotaxa 277(1): 1-20, 8 figs.

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.

Kraft, G.T. (1986). The genus Gibsmithia (Dumontiaceae, Rhodophyta) in Australia. Phycologia 25: 423-447.

N'Yeurt, A.D.R. & Payri, C.E. (2010). Marine algal flora of French Polynesia III. Rhodophyta, with additions to the Phaeophyceae and Chlorophyta. Cryptogamie Algologie 31: 3-205.

Created: 21 March 1998 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 12 October 2016 by M.D. Guiry

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References
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Doty, M.S. (1963). Gibsmithia hawaiiensis gen. n. et sp. n. Pacific Science 17(4): 458-465, 17 figs.
Gabriel, D., Draisma, S.G.A., Schmidt, W.E., Schils, T., Sauvage, T., Maridakis, C., Gurgel, C.F.D., Harris, D.J. & Fredericq, S. (2017). Beneath the hairy look: the hidden reproductive diversity of the Gibsmithia hawaiiensis complex (Dumontiaceae, Rhodophyta). Journal of Phycology 53(6): 1171-1192.
Gabriel, D., Driasma, S.G.A., Sauvage, T., Schmidt, W.E., Schils, T., Lim, P.-E., Harris, J. & Fredericq, S. (2016). Multilocus phylogeny reveals Gibsmithia hawaiiensis (Dumontiaceae, Rhodophyta) to be a species complex from the Indo-Pacific, with the proposal of G. eilatensis sp. nov. Phytotaxa 277(1): 1-20, 8 figs.

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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 14 April 2021.

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