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Audouinella indica Garbary

  • 1. Instituto Oceanográfico, Universidad de Oriente, Cumaná 6101, Venezuela;
  • 2. School of Biosciences 2, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3010, Australia;
  • 3. Department of Zoology and Botany, São Paulo State University, S. Jose Rio Preto, São Paulo, Brazil

Description

Audouinella indica (Raikwar) Garbary

Garbary, 1987, p. 92.

Taxonomic synonyms: Acrochaetium indica Raikwar 1962, p.102, figs 1–18; Singh et al. 1983, p. 203, 37 figs in 6 Pls; Tiwari & Pandey 1983, p. 204. Pl. 1, figs 1–7, Pl. 2, figs 8–13, Pl.3, figs 14–19, Pl. 4, figs 20–24, Pl.5, figs 25–30, pl. 6, figs 31–37; Desikachary et al. 1990, Part II A, p. 76, fig. 12 J–O; Kumano 2002, p. 59, Pl. 30, figs 1–10; Pseudochantransia indica (Raikwar) Ott 2009, p. 378.

Distribution in India: Madhya Pradesh (Bichhia River at Rewa, dark bluish black to dirty coloured, appearing in Sep. and peaking in Nov.–Dec); Uttar Pradesh (Anarkali Tal, Bahraich district, on dead aquatic plants. Oct.).

Notes: This freshwater “ Acrochaetium ” species from India had been studied in detail over a number of years. Singh et al. (1983) observed for the first time what they called “gemmules”, as perennating bodies in the off-season warmer months. Based on observations for three years, Singh et al. (1983) were of the opinion that A. sarmaii and A. godwardensis were conspecific with A. indica, since there were no significant differences in vegetative morphology, anatomy or monsoporangial shape and size.

Notes

Published as part of Ganesan, E. K., West, John A. & Jr, Orlando Necchi, 2018, A catalogue and bibliography of non-marine (freshwater and estuarine) Rhodophyta (red algae) of India, pp. 1-48 in Phytotaxa 364 (1) on page 12, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.364.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13703374

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Garbary
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Rhodophyta
Order
Nemaliales
Family
Acrochaetiaceae
Genus
Audouinella
Species
indica
Taxon rank
species

References

  • Garbary, D. J. (1987) The Acrochaetiaceae (Rhodophyta): An Annotated Bibliography. Bibliotheca Phycologica 77: 1 - 267.
  • Raikwar, S. K. S. (1962) A new freshwater species of Acrochaetium (A. indica sp. nov.) Revue Algologique 6: 98 - 104.
  • Singh, S. P., Tiwari, G. L. & Pandey, D. C. (1983) Certain observations on Acrochaetium indica Raikwar. Bibliotheca Phycologica 66: 203 - 218.
  • Tiwari, S. K. & Pandey, D. C. (1983) Certain observations on Acrochaetium indica Raikwar. Bibliotheca Phycologica 66: 203 - 218.
  • Desikachary, T. V., Krishnamurthy, V. & Balakrishnan, M. S. (1990) Rhodophyta. vol. 1. Madras Science Foundation, Madras, 279 pp.
  • Kumano, S. (2002) Freshwater Red Algae of the World. Biopress, Bristol, UK, 375 pp.
  • Ott, F. D. (2009) Handbook of the taxonomic names associated with the non-marine Rhodophycophyta. J. Cramer, Germany, 969 pp.