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Grateloupia Turuturu (Halymeniaceae, Rhodophyta): The Correct Identity of the Invasive Species in the Atlantic Known as Grateloupia Doryphora as Inferred From Molecular and Morphological Evidence
Author(s) -
Gavio B.,
Fredericq S.
Publication year - 2002
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.1529-8817.38.s1.36.x
Subject(s) - biology , mediterranean sea , mediterranean climate , invasive species , ecology , oceanography , geology
Abstract Grateloupia doryphora (Montagne) Howe, originally described from Peru, has repeatedly been reported as an invasive species in Atlantic and Mediterranean waters. Various attempts to explain this species' route of invasion have, so far, been unsatisfying. In the present paper, we provide new evidence on the basis of comparative rbcL sequence analysis and morphology that this invasive species in the NE and NW Atlantic corresponds to G. turuturu Yamada, originally described from Japan. The true origin of this alga follows a well‐recognized trend of invasive marine organisms that have on various occasions colonized the Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea from Pacific NE Asia.