Biology:Ceramium diaphanum

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Short description: Species of alga

Ceramium diaphanum
Ceramium diaphanum.jpg
Nineteenth-century museum specimen
Scientific classification edit
(unranked): Archaeplastida
Division: Rhodophyta
Class: Florideophyceae
Order: Ceramiales
Family: Ceramiaceae
Genus: Ceramium
Species:
C. diaphanum
Binomial name
Ceramium diaphanum
(Lightfoot) Roth 1806[1]
Subspecies
  • Ceramium diaphanum arachnoides C.Agardh
  • Ceramium diaphanum aucklandicum J.D.Hooker & Harvey
  • Ceramium diaphanum capense Simons
  • Ceramium diaphanum capricornu (Reinsch) Foslie 1893
  • Ceramium diaphanum corticatulostrictum Kylin
  • Ceramium diaphanum corticatulum H.E.Petersen
  • Ceramium diaphanum decipiens Schiffner
  • Ceramium diaphanum elegans (Roth) Roth 1806
  • Ceramium diaphanum fastigiatum (Roth) Trevisan
  • Ceramium diaphanum gracile Ardissone
  • Ceramium diaphanum herbaceum (Roth) Roth
  • Ceramium diaphanum indicum Feldmann-Mazoyer 1952
  • Ceramium diaphanum minor P.L.Crouan & H.M.Crouan 1865
  • Ceramium diaphanum patentissima Foslie
  • Ceramium diaphanum pilosum (Roth) C.Agardh
  • Ceramium diaphanum pulcher Shperk
  • Ceramium diaphanum radiculosum (Grunow) H.E.Petersen
  • Ceramium diaphanum rigidum A.W.Griffiths & Harvey
  • Ceramium diaphanum serpens Montagne
  • Ceramium diaphanum strictotenuissimum (H.E.Petersen) Kylin
  • Ceramium diaphanum strictum Celan & Serbanescu 1969
  • Ceramium diaphanum typicum H.E.Petersen
  • Ceramium diaphanum virescens Lyngbye
  • Ceramium diaphanum zostericola acrocarpum (Kutzing) Feldmann-Mazoyer 1941
  • Ceramium diaphanum zostericola H.E.Petersen
Synonyms
  • Ceramium elegans (Roth) Ducluzeau, accepted as Ceramium diaphanum var. elegans (Roth) Roth, 1806
  • Conferva elegans Roth, 1797,[2] accepted as Ceramium diaphanum var. elegans (Roth) Roth, 1806

Ceramium diaphanum is a species of marine red algae (or Rhodophyta).

Description

This small filamentous alga grows attached, or unattached, in masses reaching 20 cm across. The branches grow pseudochotomously the tips are strongly coiled in. It is corticated only at the nodes between the axial cells and form clear cortical bands. The rhizoids are multicellular.[3]

Reproduction

The full life history is not yet confirmed. Tetraspores have been recorded in groups on the nodes.[3]

Habitat

Growing as attached or unattached clumps on other algae and Zostera at low littoral to 3 m deep.[3]

Distribution

Widely distributed in Ireland, England and Scotland.[3]Isle of Man.[4] Reported from Norway and United States of America .[3]

References

  1. ↑ Roth, A.G. (1806). Catalecta botanica quibus plantae novae et minus cognitae describuntur atque illustrantur. Fasciculus tertius cum tabulis aenaeis XII. pp. [i-viii], [1]-350,
  2. ↑ Roth, A.W. (1797). Catalecta botanica quibus plantae novae et minus cognitae describuntur atque illustrantur. Fasc. 1. pages 1-244. Lipsiae (Leipzig) in Bibliopolo I.G. Mülleriano. (description page 199, pl. 5, fig. 4)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Maggs, C.A. and Hommersand, M.H. 1993. Seaweeds of the British Isles. Volume 1 Rhodophyta Part 3A Ceramiales. The Natural History Museum, London. ISBN:0-11-310045-0
  4. ↑ Hardy, F.G. and Guiry, M.D. 2003. A Check-list and Atlas of Seaweeds of Britain and Ireland The British Phycological Society . ISBN:0-9527115-16

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q25990415 entry




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