| Genus: |
Tricleocarpa Huisman & Borowitzka |
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Description: |
Taxonomic notes
According to Silva et al. (1996), the name Galaxaura spongiosa has been misapplied to this species by G. Martens (1868: 25, 86-87). |
| Name History |
Adjective (Latin), cylindrical. |
| References |
Afonso-Carrillo, J., Pérez, L., Sansón, M. & Reyes, J. (1998). Observaciones en Tricleocarpa cylindrica con el microscopio electrónico de barrido (Rhodophyta, Galaxauraceae). Vieraea 26: 87-91, 6 figs. Braune, W. (2008). Meeresalgen. Ein Farbbildführer zu den verbreiteten benthischen Grün- Braun- und Rotalgen der Weltmeere. pp. [1]-596, 266 pls. Ruggell: A.R.G. Gantner Verlag. Dawes, C.J. & Mathieson, A.C. (2008). The seaweeds of Florida. pp. [i]- viii, [1]-591, [592], pls I-LI. Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida. Huisman, J.M. & Townsend, R.A. (1993). An examination of Linnaean and pre-Linnaean taxa referable to Galaxaura and Tricleocarpa (Galaxauraceae, Rhodophyta). Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Botany 113: 95-101, 2 figs, 2 tables. Huisman, J.M. & Womersley, H.B.S. (1994). Family Galaxauraceae Parkinson 1983: 608. In: The marine benthic flora of southern Australia. Rhodophyta - Part IIIA. (Womersley, H.B.S. Eds), pp. 99-118. Canberra: Huisman, J.M. (2006). Tricelocarpa. In: Algae of Australia Nemaliales. (Huisman, J.M. Eds), pp. 24-28. Canberra: Australian Biological Resources Study. Silva, P.C., Basson, P.W. & Moe, R.L. (1996). Catalogue of the benthic marine algae of the Indian Ocean. University of California Publications in Botany 79: 1-1259. Skelton, P.A. & South, G.R. (2007). The benthic marine algae of the Samoan Archipelago, South Pacific, with emphasis on the Apia District. Nova Hedwigia Beihefte 132: 1-350. Wang, W.-L., Liu, S.-L. & Lin, S.-M. (2005). Systematics of the calcified genera of the Galaxauraceae (Nemaliales, Rhodophyta) with an emphasis on Taiwan species. Journal of Phycology 41: 685-703. |
| Habitat: |
Commonly found in tropical and subtropical seas (Huisman & Womersley 1994: 118). Usually on rocks thinly covered with sand, at depths ranging from intertidal rock pools to 15 m (Huisman (2006: 25). |
| Type information: |
Type species
This is the type species (holotype) of the genus Tricleocarpa. Basionym
Corallina cylindrica J.Ellis & Solander Type information
Type locality: West Indies (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996: 116). Notes: Huisman & Womersley (1994: 116) notes that the type is lost; lectotypified by Ellis & Solander, 1786, pl. 22, fig.4 (see Papenfuss et al., 1982: 416). |
