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NOTES ON THE MARINE ALGAE OF THE BERMUDAS. 3. AVRAINVILLEA SYLVEARLEAE, DISCOSPORANGIUM MESARTHROCARPUM, AND PEYSSONNELIA VALENTINII
Author(s) -
Schneider Craig W.,
Searles Richard B.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
journal of phycology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.85
H-Index - 127
eISSN - 1529-8817
pISSN - 0022-3646
DOI - 10.1046/j.1529-8817.1998.340180.x
Subject(s) - biology , algae , taxon , temperate climate , ecology , oceanography , mediterranean climate , mediterranean sea , zoology , geology
Three species of marine algae are reported from the Bermuda islands for the first time, Avrainvillea sylvearleae D. S. Littler et Littler, Discosporangium mesarthrocarpum (Menegh.) Hauck, and Peyssonnelia valentinii Yonesh. et Boudour. The presence of Avrainvillea sylvearleae in Bermuda prompted a taxonomic reinvestigation of North Carolina specimens attributed recently to that taxon, and we find them better placed in A. longicaulis f. laxa D. S. Littler et Littler. The report of the eastern Atlantic/Mediterranean Discosporangium mesarthrocarpum is the first from the western Atlantic Ocean and joins only 12 other amphi‐Atlantic species with strictly warm‐temperate zone distributions. Peyssonnelia valentinii is discovered for the first time outside of Brazil.