Ceramium flaccidum (Harvey ex Kützing) Ardissone 1871

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Subkingdom Biliphyta
Phylum Rhodophyta
Subphylum Eurhodophytina
Class Florideophyceae
Subclass Rhodymeniophycidae
Order Ceramiales
Family Ceramiaceae
Subfamily Ceramioideae
Tribe Ceramieae
Genus Ceramium

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cross-section and surface view, North of Galicia, Spain, 2016. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

cross-section, North of Galicia, Spain, 2015. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

cross-section and surface view, Ría de Ferrol, Galicia, Spain, 2015,. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

cross-section, North of Galicia, Spain, 2015. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

cross-section and surface view, Ría de Ferrol, Galicia, Spain, 2015,. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

Gayella flaccida, Ría de A. Coruña, Galicia, Spain, 2013, Ignacio Bárbara" . Ignacio Bárbara. © Igancio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

Hawaii; scale 200 µm. J.M. Huisman. © J.M. Huisman.

Panama. Saboga-Las Perlas. In situ image showing the filamentous puff of G. flaccidium growing on coral tip that was previously damaged.. D.S. Littler. © Diane Littler (littlerd@si.edu).

Panama. Filaments with alternately branching and slightly incurved tips.. D.S. Littler. © Diane Littler (littlerd@si.edu).

Panama. Joint showing rhizoid initiated from major joint cells.. D.S. Littler. © Diane Littler (littlerd@si.edu).

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Ceramium flaccidum (Harvey ex Kützing) Ardissone KwaZulu-Natal
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Publication details
Ceramium flaccidum (Harvey ex Kützing) Ardissone 1871: 40

Published in: Ardissone, F. (1871). Rivista dei Ceramii della flora italiana. Nuovo Giornale Botanico Italiano 3: 32-50.
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Type species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Ceramium is Ceramium virgatum Roth.

Status of name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Gayliella flaccida (Harvey ex Kützing) T.O.Cho & L.J.McIvor

Basionym
Hormoceras flaccidum Harvey ex Kützing

Type information
Type locality: Ad oras britannicas prope Kilkee [Kilkee, Co. Clare, Ireland] (Kützing 1862: 21). Lectotype: "Harv. in litt." [W.H. Harvey]; L 940.265.55 (Maggs & Hommersand 1993: 59). Notes: Syntypes: L, BM, TCD.

Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), flaccid, not able to hold up its own weight (Stearn 1973).

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Ceramium gracillimum Griffiths & Harvey ex Harvey 1848

Nomenclatural notes

Womersly (1998: 410) and De Barros-Barreto et al. (2006) cite the authority as (Kützing) Ardossone. - (20 Oct 2006) - Wendy Guiry

Taxonomic notes
John et al. (2004) cite Ceramium gracillimum (Kütz.) Griffiths & Harv. and C. papenfussianum Simons as synonyms of this species.

Habitat notes
Widespread in tropical to cold temperate waters; 50 cm depth, on Laurencia and a hydroid, the former growing on the latter; on Caulerpa sertularioides; on Chondrophycus papillosus community; in Caulerpa racemosa community; on Sargassum (Lipkin & Silva 2002). Epiphytic on a wide variety of algae, and epilithic on bedrock and pebbles, on damp surfaces near extreme low water and in pools up to mid-tide level, occasionally on strongly wave-exposed shores, more frequently at moderately to extremely sheltered sites, particularly those with some tidal currents (Maggs & Hommersand 1993). Common near low tide level and in wave-washed pools, on rock or epiphytic (especially on Haliptilon (Womersley 1998). - (4 Jun 2010) - Wendy Guiry

General environment
This is a marine species.

Habitat
Common near low tide level and in wave-washed pools, on rock or epiphytic, especially on Corallina (Womersley 1978: 236).

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Source of current name
Cho, T.O., Boo, S.M., Hommersand, M.H., Maggs, C.A., McIvor, L. & Fredericq, S. (2008). Gayliella gen. nov. in the tribe Ceramieae (Ceramiaceae, Rhodophyta) based on molecular and morphological evidence. Journal of Phycology 44: 721-738, 11 figs.

Key references
Barros-Barreto, M.B., McIvor, L., Maggs, C.A. & Ferreira, P.C.G. (2006). Molecular systematics of Ceramium and Centroceras (Ceramiaceae, Rhodophyta) from Brazil. Journal of Phycology 42: 905-921.

Dawes, C.J. & Mathieson, A.C. (2008). The seaweeds of Florida. pp. [i]- viii, [1]-591, [592], pls I-LI. Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida.

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.

Maggs, C.A. & Hommersand, M.H. (1993). Seaweeds of the British Isles. Volume 1. Rhodophyta. Part 3A. Ceramiales. pp. [i]-xv, 1-444, 129 figs, map. London: HMSO.

Womersley, H.B.S. (1978). Southern Australian species of Ceramium Roth (Rhodophyta). Australian Journal of Botany 29: 205-257, 15 figs.

Womersley, H.B.S. (1998). The marine benthic flora of southern Australia - Part IIIC. Ceramiales - Ceramiaceae, Dasyaceae. pp. [1]-535, 235 figs, 4 col. figs in 2 pls. Canberra & Adelaide: Australian Biological Resources Study & State Herbarium of South Australia.

Created: 17 May 1996 by M.D. Guiry

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