View source for Biology:Colpomenia sinuosa

{{Short description|Species of seaweed}}
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| image = Colpomeniasinuosa.JPG
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| image_caption = Sea bubble (''Colpomenia sinuosa''), Cabrillo National Monument tidepools, San Diego, California, USA
| genus = Colpomenia
| species = sinuosa
| authority = (Mertens ex Roth) Derbès & Solier in Castagne 1851
| synonyms = 
* ''[[Earth:Ulva|Ulva]] sinuosa'' <small>Mertens ex Roth 1806</small>
* ''Encoelium sinuosum'' <small>(Mertens ex Roth) [[Biography:Carl Adolph Agardh|C.Agardh]] 1820</small>
* ''[[Biology:Soranthera|Soranthera]] leathesiæformis'' <small>H.Crouan & P.Crouan</small><ref name="Mazé">{{cite book|last1=Mazé|first1=Hippolyte|last2=Schramm|first2=A|title=Essai de classification des algues de la Guadeloupe|date=1905|publisher=Impr. du Gouvernement|location=Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe|page=131|edition=2nd|language=French|quote=876347352|hdl=2027/coo.31924000640767}}</ref><ref name=leathesiæformis>Natural History Museum (2014). Dataset: Collection specimens. Resource: Specimens. Natural History Museum Data Portal ( http://www.nhm.ac.uk/services/media-store/asset/4fc357cb75ba3e5b51a22b8bfcfc8ea945e5303a/contents/preview ). {{doi|10.5519/0002965}} Retrieved: 17:42 10 May 2018 (GMT)</ref><ref name="Barton">{{cite journal|last1=Barton|first1=Ethel Sara|title=On the Structure and Development of ''Soranthera'', Post. & Rupr.|journal=Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society|date=November 1898|volume=33|issue=234|pages=479–486|doi=10.1111/j.1095-8339.1898.tb00666.x|language=English|issn=1095-8339}}</ref>
* ''Stilophora sinuosa'' <small>(Mertens ex Roth) C.Agardh 1827</small>
* ''Asperococcus sinuosus'' <small>(Mertens ex Roth) Bory de Saint-Vincent 1832</small>
* ''Asperococcus sinuosus'' <small>(C.Agardh) [[Biography:Giovanni Zanardini|Zanardini]] 1841</small>
* ''[[Biology:Hydroclathrus|Hydroclathrus]] sinuosus'' <small>(Mertens ex Roth) Zanardini 1843</small>
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'''''Colpomenia sinuosa''''', [[Biology:Common name|commonly named]] the '''oyster thief''' or '''sinuous ballweed''', is a [[Biology:Brown algae|brown algae]] species in the genus ''[[Biology:Colpomenia|Colpomenia]]''. It is the [[Biology:Type species|type species]] of its genus and is widespread in tropical to  temperate zones around the world.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Nelson|first=W. A.|title=New Zealand seaweeds : an illustrated guide|publisher=Te Papa Press|year=2013|isbn=9780987668813|location=Wellington, New Zealand|pages=122|oclc=841897290}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite book|last=Huisman|first=John M.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/123040861|title=Hawaiian reef plants|date=2007|publisher=University of Hawaiʻi Sea Grant College Program|others=Isabella Aiona Abbott, Celia Marie Smith, University of Hawaii at Manoa. Sea Grant College Program|isbn=978-1-929054-04-6|location=Honolulu, Hawaiʻi|oclc=123040861}}</ref>

It is superficially similar to the ''[[Biology:Colpomenia peregrina|Colpomenia peregrina]]'' species and in older texts, such as Knight and Parke (1931), ''C. peregrina'' is referred to as ''C. sinuosa''.

''Colpomenia sinuosa'' contains the C6-C4-C6 [[Chemistry:Phenol|phenol]]ic compound {{chem name|colpol}}.<ref>Colpol, a New Cytotoxic C6-C4-C6 Metabolite from the Alga Colpomenia sinuosa. Dalia Green, Yoel Kashman and Ahron Miroz, J. Nat. Prod., 1993, volume 56, issue 7, pages 1201–1202, {{doi|10.1021/np50097a033}}</ref>

==Distribution==
This species is common in the intertidal and on reef flats, often growing on other algae or rocky substrates.<ref name=":1" /> In Hawaiʻi it is found from the mid intertidal to about 20m depth.<ref name=":1" /> It can be found in New Zealand in the northeastern coasts of the North Island, the Kermadec Islands, and the Marlborough Sounds.<ref name=":0" /> 

==References==
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==Further reading==
{{cite journal|last1=Lee|first1=Kyung Min|last2=Boo|first2=Sung Min|last3=Kain|first3=Joanna|last4=Sherwood|first4=Alison|title=Cryptic diversity and biogeography of the widespread brown alga Colpomenia sinuosa (Ectocarpales, Phaeophyceae)|journal=Botanica Marina|date=February 2013|volume=56|issue=1|pages=15–25|doi=10.1515/bot-2012-0211|s2cid=85090403 }}

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