Jania 
squamata (Linnaeus) J.H.Kim, Guiry & H.-G.Choi

Jania 
squamata (Linnaeus) J.H.Kim, Guiry & H.-G.Choi

Jania 
squamata (Linnaeus) J.H.Kim, Guiry & H.-G.Choi

Jania 
squamata (Linnaeus) J.H.Kim, Guiry & H.-G.Choi

Jania 
squamata (Linnaeus) J.H.Kim, Guiry & H.-G.Choi

Jania 
squamata (Linnaeus) J.H.Kim, Guiry & H.-G.Choi

Jania 
squamata (Linnaeus) J.H.Kim, Guiry & H.-G.Choi

Jania 
squamata (Linnaeus) J.H.Kim, Guiry & H.-G.Choi

Jania 
squamata (Linnaeus) J.H.Kim, Guiry & H.-G.Choi

Jania 
squamata (Linnaeus) J.H.Kim, Guiry & H.-G.Choi

Jania 
squamata (Linnaeus) J.H.Kim, Guiry & H.-G.Choi

Jania squamata
(Linnaeus) J.H.Kim, Guiry & H.-G.Choi

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Species Details

Class: Florideophyceae
Genus: Jania J.V. Lamouroux
Species: Jania squamata
Authority: (Linnaeus) J.H.Kim, Guiry & H.-G.Choi
Description:

Fronds characteriatically pink with whitish tips (above), calcified, articulated, regularly pinnate, to 200 mm long, axis compressed, repeatedly pinnate from and entangles stoloniferous base, more abundantly and regularly branched than C. officinalis. Articulations relatively large, distinctly shield-shaped, often arrow-shaped.

Original publication: Kim, J.H., Guiry, M.D., Oak, J.H., Choi, D.-S., Kang, S.-H., Chung, H. & Choi, H.-G. (2007). Phylogenetic relationships within the tribe Janieae (Corallinales, Rhodophyta) based on molecular and morphological data: a reappraisal of Jania. Journal of Phycology 43: 1310-1319.


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Name History Adjective (Latin), furnished with scales
Biogeography Middle Western Mediterranean Sea: France, Italy; North Adriatic Sea: Italy; Middle Eastern Mediterranean Sea: Greece; North Eastern Mediterranean Sea: Greece.
Life Cycle

Gametangial conceptacles: spermatangial conceptacles are rare, outside diameter not recorded; carposporangial conceptacles, 150 µm in diameter x 180 µm high.

Tetra/bisporangial conceptacles: pedunculate, fusiform, corniculate; 420-750 µm in diameter outside.

References Johansen, H.W., Irvine, L.M. & Webster, A.M. (1973). Haliptilon squamatum (L.) comb. nov., a poorly known British coralline alga. British Phycological Journal 8: 212 only.


Habitat: Marine species, mostly epiphytic on Cystoseira species in lower-shore pools on moderately wave-exposed coasts. Occasionally on rock. Rare.
Type information:

Basionym: Corallina squamata Linnaeus

Type locality: “Oc. Europaeo” (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996: 234).

Specimens
( 8 record(s) available )
Type Number Species Date Coastal Station

(O)

3038 Jania squamata (Linnaeus) J.H.Kim, Guiry & H.-G.Choi 2009-08-28 S. Martinho do Porto, Portugal

(H) 

4137 Jania squamata (Linnaeus) J.H.Kim, Guiry & H.-G.Choi 2011-10-01 Praia Norte, Viana do Castelo, Portugal

(O)

4169 Jania squamata (Linnaeus) J.H.Kim, Guiry & H.-G.Choi 2012-08-06 Playa de la Arena, Tenerife, Spain

(O)

4182 Jania squamata (Linnaeus) J.H.Kim, Guiry & H.-G.Choi 2012-08-13 Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, Spain

(O)

4553 Jania squamata (Linnaeus) J.H.Kim, Guiry & H.-G.Choi 2016-08-08 Cala Domingos, Cales de Mallorca, Mallorca, Spain

(O)

4563 Jania squamata (Linnaeus) J.H.Kim, Guiry & H.-G.Choi 2016-08-08 Cala Domingos, Cales de Mallorca, Mallorca, Spain

(O)

4577 Jania squamata (Linnaeus) J.H.Kim, Guiry & H.-G.Choi 2016-08-08 Cala Domingos, Cales de Mallorca, Mallorca, Spain

(O)

4708 Jania squamata (Linnaeus) J.H.Kim, Guiry & H.-G.Choi 2023-07-18 S. Martinho do Porto, Portugal


Bibliography

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   Description and Photos
   PHYLOGENETIC RELATIONSHIPS WITHIN THE TRIBE JANIEAE (CORALLINALES RHODOPHYTA) BASED ON MOLECULAR AND MORPHOLOGICAL DATA: A REAPPRAISAL OF JANIA
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1975 specimens in MACOI collections
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