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Description: |
This species is small (4-5 mm high), heavily calcified, and forms intricately entwined clumps. The branches are pinkish-red color, regularly dichotomous, terete or slightly compressed, and slightly curve downward. Terminal segments are acuminate. This is an epiphytic species, decumbent on other seaweeds such as the species of Sargassaceae, growing in the subtidal zones along shorelines moderately exposed to water movement. Original publication: Lamouroux, J.V.F. (1816). Histoire des polypiers coralligènes flexibles, vulgairement nommés zoophytes. pp. [i]-lxxxiv, chart, [1]-560, [560, err], pls I-XIX, uncol. by author. Caen: De l'imprimerie de F. Poisson.
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Slender,cylindrical axes with symmetrical forked branchingBranching at 45 degree angles:joints are marked by a narrow line.Deep pink to purplish-pink in colour with pale tips. |
| Name History |
Participle B (Latin), adhering (Stearn 1973). |
| Biogeography |
Atlantic Is; Mediterranean; SW and SE Atlantic; Caribben; Indo-Pacific Oceans; Australia. |
| References |
Enríquez, S., Ávila, E. & Carballo, J.L. (2009). Phenotypic plasticity induced in transplant experiments in a mutualistic association between the red alga Jania adhaerens (Rhodophyta, Corallinales) and the sponge Haliclona caerulea (Porifera: Haplosclerida): morphological responses of the alga. Journal of Phycology 45: 81-90. Judson, B.L. & Pueschel, C.M. (2002). Ultrastructure of trichocyte (hair cell) complexes in Jania adhaerens (Corallinales, Rhodophyta). Phycologia 41: 68-78. Pueschel, C.M., Judson, B.L. & Wegeberg, S. (2005). Decalcification during epithallial cell turnover in Jania adhaerens (Corallinales, Rhodophyta). Phycologia 44: 156-162. |
| Habitat: |
Growing in the subtidal zones along shorelines moderately exposed to water movement. |
| Type information: |
Type locality: Mediterranean (?) (Lipkin & Silva 2002: 15). Notes: Type stated by Lamouroux to be from the Mediterranean Sea, but with some uncertainty. |
