Description: |
Filaments rigid, erect, setaceous, full dark-green, di-tri-chotomous; the axils very acute, the branches erect; articulations many times longer than broad; dissepiments only at the forking of the branches and ramuli. Original publication: Kützing, F.T. (1843). Phycologia generalis oder Anatomie, Physiologie und Systemkunde der Tange... Mit 80 farbig gedruckten Tafeln, gezeichnet und gravirt vom Verfasser. pp. [part 1]: [i]-xxxii, [1]-142 , [part 2:] 143-458, 1, err.], pls 1-80. Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus.
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Name History |
Adjective (Latin), pellucid, translucent but not hyaline |
Biogeography |
NE Atlantic (from Ireland and Britain to Morocco); Mediterranean; SW Atlantic (Brazil); NE Atlantic (South Africa); Indian Ocean (India); Australia. |
References |
Brodie, J., Maggs, C.A. & John, D.M. (2007). Green seaweeds of Britain and Ireland. pp. [i-v], vi-xii, 1-242, 101 figs. London: British Phycological Society. Burrows, E.M. (1991). Seaweeds of the British Isles. Volume 2. Chlorophyta. pp. xi + 238, 60 figs, 9 plates. London: Natural History Museum Publications. Hoek, C. van den (1963). Revision of the European species of Cladophora. Proefschrift...Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden. pp. xi, 248, 1 fig, 55 plates, 18 maps. Leiden: E. J. Brill. Loiseaux-de Goër, S. & Noailles, M.-C. (2008). Algues de Roscoff. pp. [1]-215, col. figs. Roscoff: Editions de la Station Biologique de Roscoff. |
Habitat: |
On the bottoms and sides of deep rock-pools, between tide marks, generally near low-water mark. |
Type information: |
Basionym: Conferva pellucida Hudson Type locality: Walney Island, Lancashire, England (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996: 778). Neotype: BM Designated by van den Hoek (1963) as one of three specimens ‘preserved under the name Conferva pellucida in Forster’s herbarium labelled “Hudson’s sale”’ (Archer 1963 |