Lithothamnion glaciale

Lithothamnion glaciale is the botanical name for a species of multicellular red algae of the genus Lithothamnion, subfamily Melobesioideae.

Description

Lithothamnion glaciale grows as an encrusting, chalky thallus, deep reddish in colour and up to 20cm in diameter and 4mm thick. It develops simple cylindrical branches growing to 15mm long and 4mm in diameter.^[1][2]

Reproduction

These algae are dioecious, with domed spermatangial conceptacles, carpogonial conceptacles and carposporangial conceptacles.^[1]

Habitat

Epilithic on rock in low-littoral pools and in the sublittoral to 34m.^[1]

References

Lithothamnion glaciale Kjellman, 1883 é o nome botânico de uma espécie de algas vermelhas pluricelulares do gênero Lithothamnion, subfamília Melobesioideae.

• São algas marinhas encontradas na Europa, Ásia, América do Norte, árctico e Austrália.

Sinonímia

• Lithothamnion colliculosum Foslie, 1891
• Lithothamnion roseum Batters, 1893
• Lithothamnion colliculosum f. densum Foslie, 1895
• Lithothamnion flabellatum f. granii Foslie, 1895
• Lithothamnion battersii Foslie, 1896
• Lithothamnion granii (Foslie) Foslie, 1905
• Lithothamnion glaciale f. pusillum Foslie, 1905
• Lithothamnion glaciale var. colliculosum (Foslie) Rosenvinge, 1917
• Lithothamnion glaciale var. grani (Foslie) Rosenvinge, 1917
• Lithothamnion glaciale f. colliculosum (Foslie) Rosenvinge ex Suneson, 1943
• Lithothamnion glaciale f. grani (Foslie) Rosenvinge, 1943

Referências

• Kjellman, F.R. (1883). The algae of the Artic Sea. A survey of the species, together with an exposition of the general characters and the development of the flora. Kungliga Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Handlingar 20(5): 1-351, 31 plates.
• South, G. R. and I. Tittley. (1986). A checklist and distributional index of the benthic marine algae of the North Atlantic Ocean. Huntsman Marine Laboratory. St. Andrews, New Brunswick. 76 p.
• Yoshida, T. (1998). Marine algae of Japan. pp. 25 + 1222. Tokyo: Uchida Rokakuho Publishing.
• Sears, J.R. (ed.). (1998). NEAS keys to the benthic marine algae of the northeastern coast of North America from Long Island Sound to the Strait of Belle Isle. Northeast Algal Society. 163 p.
• Blake, C. & Maggs, C.A. (2003). Comparative growth rates and internal banding periodicity of maerl species (Corallinales, Rhodophyta) from northern Europe. Phycologia 42: 606-612.
• Adey, W.H., Chamberlain, Y.M. & Irvine, L.M. (2005). An SEM-based analysis of the morphology, anatomy and reproduction of Lithothamnion tophiforme (Esper) Unger (Corallinales, Rhodophyta), with a comparative study of associated North Atlantic Arctic/Subarctic Melobesioideae. Journal of Phycology 41: 1010-1024.

Ver também

• Lista de espécies do gênero Lithothamnion