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Phymatolithon atlanticum sp. nov. (Hapalidiales, Rhodophyta) from the northeast Atlantic Ocean
- Source :
- Phycologia. 60:200-209
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2021.
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Abstract
- Phymatolithon atlanticum is newly described from France and Northern Ireland (the United Kingdom) using both molecular (rbcL sequence data, concatenated psbA and COI-5P datasets) and morpho-anatomical analyses. The species shows sequence divergences from other Phymatolithon species by 10.7–15.3% in rbcL, 5.1–9.2% in psbA and 9.6–16.8% in COI-5P. Morpho-anatomically, P. atlanticum is encrusting to lumpy, has slightly sunken female conceptacles with raised rims, lacks buried conceptacles, has five to six rosette cells surrounding tetra/bisporangial conceptacle pores, and has tetra/bisporangial conceptacle roofs that are pitted with depressions as a result of the disintegration of rosette cells. This latter feature is what currently separates the species morpho-anatomically from all other species of Phymatolithon. The tetra/bisporangial conceptacle of P. atlanticum closely resembles those of Lithothamnion crispatum and Leptophytum bornetii and may well represent additional examples of convergent evolution in the non-geniculate coralline algae.
- Subjects :
- 0106 biological sciences
Conceptacle
Lithothamnion crispatum
biology
010604 marine biology & hydrobiology
Coralline algae
Plant Science
Aquatic Science
Phymatolithon
biology.organism_classification
010603 evolutionary biology
01 natural sciences
Rosette (botany)
Phylogenetics
Convergent evolution
Botany
Taxonomy (biology)
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 23302968 and 00318884
- Volume :
- 60
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Phycologia
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........03504d771fb96352d0d4db085c45aac3