Chondria bullata N'Yeurt & Payri 2009
Publication Details
Chondria bullata N'Yeurt & Payri 2009: 20, figs 25-32
Published in: N'Yeurt, A.D.R. & Payri, C.E. (2009). Four new species of Rhodophyceae from Fiji, Polynesia and Vanuatu, South Pacific. Phycological Research 57: 12-24.
Type Species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Chondria is Chondria tenuissima (Withering) C.Agardh.
Status of Name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Type Information
Type locality: Nihiru Atoll (16°41'60''S, 142°49'60''W), Tuamotu, French Polynesia; (N'Yeurt & Payri 2009: 22) Holotype: J. Orempuller; 01 October 1995; UPF; 423 S37 (N'Yeurt & Payri 2009: 22) Notes: Paratypes. Abokisa Island, Santo, Vanuatu, 22 August
2006, -35 m, leg. C. E. Payri, Geoffray and J. L.
Menou, VU 731; Malo Island, Santo, Vanuatu, 31
August 2006, -18 m, leg. C. E. Payri, Geoffray and J.
L. Menou, IRD 3791; Nagelelevu Island, Fiji, 20 May
2007, leg. C. E. Payri, -20 m, IRD 2347, IRD 2348.
Other material examined. Palmerston Atoll, Cook
Islands, 25 May 1974, leg. G.N. MacRaild, WELT
CI439a.
Origin of Species Name
Adjective (Latin), bullate, blistered or pukered (Stearn 1973).
Description
Thallus to 30 mm long, creeping, terete and irregularly
branched. Primary axes (400) 545–600 (720) µm
in diameter; secondary axes (280) 320–360 (384) µm
in diameter, unconstricted at the base, clavate shaped,
with truncate apices. Trichoblasts scarce,
but when present terminal in groups of three to eight
and dichotomously branched, 160–400 µm high,
composed of cylindrical cells 50–60 µm long and
25–40 µm in diameter. Axial cell terete,
30–40 µm in diameter, surrounded by five elongate to
ovoid pericentral cells 70–80 µm in diameter.
Surface cells (28) 32–48 (56) µm in diameter, isodiametric
to lenticular in shape, markedly protruding
by 5–16 mm throughout the thallus, especially
in younger apical portions. Tetrasporangia
immersed in subapical portions of fertile branchlets,
50–120 µm in diameter, tetrahedrally divided and laterally
attached to parent cell. Gametangial
plants unknown.
Created: 18 February 2009 by M.D. Guiry.
Last updated: 12 December 2013
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Antoine N'Yeurt in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 12 December 2013. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 29 March 2024