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Description: |
Pale to dark purple thin, brittle, leafy calcified fronds, attached at base, margins free, lobed. Fronds semicircular, concentrically banded. Reproduction takes place in winter and spring in small, wart-like conceptacles. |
| Name History |
Adjective (Latin), like a lichen |
| Biogeography |
NE Atlantic (Ireland to Mauritania); Mediterranean |
| References |
Bressan, G. & Babbini, L. (2003). Biodiversità marina delle coste Italiane: Corallinales del Mar Mediterraneo: guida all deteminazione. Biologia Marina Mediterranea 10(Suppl. 2): 1-237. Garbary, D. & Veltkamp, C.J. (1980). Observations on Mesophyllum lichenoides (Corallinaceae, Rhodophyta) with the scannng electron microscope. Phycologia 19: 49-53. Sánchez, I., Fernández, C. & Arrontes, J. (2005). Long-term changes in the structure of intertidal assemblages following invasion by Sargassum muticum (Phaeophyta). Journal of Phycology 41: 942-949. Sartoretto, S. (1994). Structure and dynamic of a new bioconstruction of Mesophyllum lichenoides (Ellis) Lemoine (Corallinales, Rhodophyta). Compte Rendu Hebdomadaire des Séances de l’Académie des Sciences. Paris. Série D 317: 156-60, 3 figs, 2 tables. Wilks, K.M. & Woelkerling, W.J. (1995). An account of southern Australian species of Lithothamnion (Corallinaceae, Rhodophyta). Australian Systematic Botany 8: 549-583, 12 figs, 2 tables. Woelkerling, W.J. & Harvey, A. (1993). An account of southern Australian species of Mesophyllum (Corallinaceae, Rhodophyta). Australian Systematic Botany 6: 571-637, 31 figs, 5 tables. Woelkerling, W.J. & Irvine, L.M. (1986). The neotypification and status of Mesophyllum (Corallinaceae, Rhodophyta). Phycologia 25: 379-396. Woelkerling, W.J. & Irvine, L.M. (2007). The genus Mesophyllum (Hapalidiaceae, Corallinales, Rhodophyta): typification update. Phycologia 46: 230-231. |
| Habitat: |
Marine species, epiphytic on Corallina officinalis in tidal pools |
| Type information: |
This is the type species (lectotype) of the genus Mesophyllum Basionym: Corallium lichenoides J.Ellis Type locality: Not stated in protologue (Ellis 1768) but Ellis (1755) and Ellis & Solander (1786) cite Cornwall, England as the source material (Woelkerling & Irvine 1986: 392). Lectotype: Ellis 1768, pl. 17, fig. 9: Library of the Royal College of Surgeons, London (Woelkerling & Irvine 2007: 230). Notes: Woelkerling and Irvine (2007) note that the neotype (collected at Hannafore Point, West Looe, Conwall) of Woelkerling and Irvine (1986b) has to be superseded because ICBN rules governing the selection of types have changed. The 1768 illustration designated as lectotype does not provide sufficient anatomical or reproductive information to allow unequivocal identification at genus or species levels. Therefore, the unacceptable neotype of Mesophyllum lichenoides(J. Ellis) Me. Lemoine (BM: Algal Box Collection 1658, barcode 000568779BM) is designated as epitype. |
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