Callithamnion

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Callithamnion
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Callithamnion corymbosum
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(unranked): Archaeplastida
Division: Rhodophyta
Class: Florideophyceae
Order: Ceramiales
Family: Callithamniaceae
Genus: Callithamnion
Lyngbye, 1819
Synonyms [1]
  • AristothamnionJ.Agardh, 1892
  • CeratothamnionJ.Agardh, 1892
  • DasythamnionNägeli, 1862
  • DorythamnionNägeli, 1861
  • LeptothamnionKützing, 1849
  • PhlebothamnionKützing, 1843

Callithamnion is a genus of algae belonging to the family Callithamniaceae. [2]

Contents

The genus was first described by Danish botanist Hans Christian Lyngbye in 1819, [2] [3] and the type species is Callithamnion corymbosum(Smith) Lyngbye., [2]

The genus has cosmopolitan distribution. [4] Species are found in Europe (including Norway and Great Britain, [5] ), Australia, [6] America (including Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina and Georgia), [7] Newfoundland (Canada), [8] Sri Lanka and South Africa. [9] [10]

The genus of Callithamnion has undergone 2 major changes in its history. Carl Nägeli (in 1861) transferred species without alternate branchlets to Antithamnion , Rhodochorton and Acrochaetium . [11] Then Genevieve Feldmann-Mazoyer in 1941 created genus Aglaothamnion for species having uninucleate cells, zig-zag carpogonial branches and lobed groups of carposporangia, and re-circumscribed Callithamnion. Aglaothamnion is now sometimes regarded as a synonym of Callithamnion with insufficient evidence for separate evolutionary lines of development. [2]

Description

Callithamnion species are a marine red alga that is monaxial (having only one axis) with free filaments and the thalli are usually small tufts. [12] They are also erect, up to 10 cm tall, with irregular branching and have multinucleate cells. [13] In most species are gametophytes and sporophytes are found throughout the year, but are usually only fertile in the late summer and autumn. [8]

Species

As accepted by WoRMS and AlgaeBase; [1] [2]

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References

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