Ptilota serrata Kützing 1847

Current name: Ptilota serrata Kützing
Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick, CanadaCoastal Imageworks (colinba@interchange.ubc.ca)

Publication Details
Ptilota serrata Kützing 1847: 36

Published in: Kützing, F.T. (1847). Diagnosen und Bemerkungen zu neuen oder kritischen Algen. Botanische Zeitung 5: 1-5, 22-25, 33-38, 52-55, 164-167, 177-180, 193-198, 219-223.

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Type Species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Ptilota is Ptilota plumosa C.Agardh.

Status of Name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.

Type Information
Type locality: Neu-Fundland [Newfoundland]; (INA 1996) Type: Lenormand; L?; Notes: Neotype information: Specimen GWS007679 in UNB, collected by L. LeGall, H. Kucera, D. McDevit & J. Utge on 25 July 2006 from St. Brides, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada; neotype DNA barcode: GWS007679 (GenBank accession KU381883) (Bruce & Saunders, 2016: 47, figs 17, 18).

Origin of Species Name
Adjective (Latin), serrated, saw-edged with teeth pointing forwards (Stearn 1983).

General Environment
This is a marine species.

Created: 03 August 1996 by M.D. Guiry.

Last updated: 08 December 2020

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Distributional note
"The only COI sequence of Pserrata available in genBank (AY970640) comes from a specimen from the Pacific coast of Canada. This is actually a different species, P. filicina A. Agardh, and is correctly referred to a s such in BOLD (Gary Saunders, personal communication)." (Rueness, 2010: 383). Rueness also notes that four geographically widely separated specimens from eastern Canada, temporarily labeled as P. serrata species 1 in BOLD , have COI sequences identical with P. gunneri from Europe, strongly suggesting that this species in fact is present on western Atlantic coasts. - (26 February 2013) - G.M. Guiry

Habitat notes
mostly found on rocks, less often on macroalgae in low intertidal zone, as well as subtidal to 20 m (Bruce and Saunders, 2016: 47). - (07 February 2017) - G.M. Guiry
Found at depths of 10-12 m (Selivanova & Zhigadlova 2009). - (10 May 2010) - G.M. Guiry

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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 08 December 2020. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 05 April 2025