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Caulerpa serrulata J. Agardh 1837
Authors/Creators
- 1. Escuela de Biología, Centro de Investigación en Ciencias del Mar y Limnología (CIMAR), Universidad de Costa Rica, San Pedro, San José, 11501 - 2060, Costa Rica.
- 2. Department of Biology, Marine Biology & Environmental Science, Roger Williams University, 1 Old Ferry Road, Bristol, Rhode Island 02809, USA.
- 3. Programa de Investigación en Botánica Marina, Departamento de Biología Marina, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Sur, Carretera al sur Km 5.5, La Paz, C. P. 23080, México.
- 4. Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Exactas, Universidad del Valle, Cali, A. A. 25360, Colombia.
- 5. School of BioSciences, University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia. & Phycology Research Group, Ghent University, Krijgslaan 281 (S 8), 9000 Ghent, Belgium.
Description
Caulerpa serrulata (Forsskål) J. Agardh 1837:174 (Figure 7 A,B)
Type Locality: −Mokha, Yemen.
Description: −Erect to prostate thallus. Compressed assimilators, with white spoted in the field, twisted in random directions, with marginal serrations, (1.2–) 2.2–2.6 (–4.5) cm high, (1.7–) 2.7–3.1 (–4.9) mm wide. Dichotomous branching. Stolons creeping, (0.5–) 0.7–0.8 (–1.1) mm diameter.
Habitat: −Rocky and dead coral, between 5–15 m deep.
Distribution in the ETP: − Costa Rica: Isla del Coco, Panama: Golfo de Chiriquí. Appear to have restricted distribution to these localities.
References: − Wysor 2004, Fernández 2008, Fernández & Alvarado 2008, Fernández-García et al. 2011, Littler & Littler 2010.
Notes
Published as part of Fernández-García, Cindy, Wysor, Brian, Riosmena-Rodríguez, Rafael, Salamanca, Enrique Peña- & Verbruggen, Heroen, 2016, DNA-assisted identification of Caulerpa (Caulerpaceae, Chlorophyta) reduces species richness estimates for the Eastern Tropical Pacific, pp. 185-204 in Phytotaxa 252 (3) on page 196, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.252.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/13676171
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- Cites
- Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.13676197 (DOI)
- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.11646/phytotaxa.252.3.2 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/13676171 (URL)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFD9FF91FFF45730FFD6A33DFFF1354D (URL)
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- J. Agardh
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Chlorophyta
- Order
- Bryopsidales
- Family
- Caulerpaceae
- Genus
- Caulerpa
- Species
- serrulata
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Caulerpa serrulata Agardh, 1837 sec. Fernández-García, Wysor, Riosmena-Rodríguez, Salamanca & Verbruggen, 2016
References
- Agardh, J. G. (1837) Novae species algarum, quas in itinere ad oras maris rubri collegit Eduardus Ruppell; cum observationibus nonnullis in species rariores antea cognitas. Museum Senckenbergianum 2: 169 - 74.
- Wysor, B. (2004) An annotated list of marine Chlorophyta from the Pacific coast of the Republic of Panama. Nova Hedwigia 78: 209 - 241. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1127 / 0029 - 5035 / 2004 / 0078 - 0209
- Fernandez, C. & Alvarado, J. J. (2008) Chlorophyta de la costa Pacifica de Costa Rica. Revista de Biologia Tropical 56 (Suppl. 4): 149 - 162.
- Fernandez-Garcia, C., Riosmena-Rodriguez, R., Wysor, B., Tejada, O. & Cortes, J. (2011) Checklist of the Pacific Marine Macroalgae of Central America. Botanica Marina 54: 53 - 73. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1515 / bot. 2011.001