Gracilaria vermiculophylla (Ohmi) Papenfuss 1967

Publication Details
Gracilaria vermiculophylla (Ohmi) Papenfuss 1967: 101

Published in: Papenfuss, G.F. (1967). Notes on algal nomenclature - V. Various Chlorophyceae and Rhodophyceae. Phykos 5(1&2): 95-105.

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Type Species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Gracilaria is Gracilaria compressa (C.Agardh) Greville.

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

Basionym
Gracilariopsis vermiculophylla Ohmi

Type Information
Type locality: Gomejima, Akkeshi Bay (Lake Akkeshi), Kushiro Prov., Japan; (Terada & Yamamoto 2002: 216) Holotype: Ohmi 200; ix. 1955; HAK; (Terada & Yamamoto 2002: 216) Notes: Holotype: Ohmi 200, spermatangial. Isotype: Ohmi 201, cystocarpic, currently housed in herbarium at Faculty of Fisheries, Hokkaido University.

General Environment
This is a marine species.

Created: 22 March 1998 by M.D. Guiry.

Last updated: 24 October 2023

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Taxonomic note
Terada & Yamamota (2002) report that Gracilaria confervoides and G. verrucosa of Japanese authors together with Gracilariopsis rhodotricha sensu Ohmi (non Dawson) actually represent this species. - (11 May 2006) - G.M. Guiry

Distributional note
Thomsen et al. (2006: 139) note that the cylindrical form of Gracilaria that dominates Hog Island Bay, Virginia, is G. vermiculophylla (Ohmi) Papenfuss, an alien macroalga from the West Pacific. This form was referred to previously as G. verrrucosa (Hudson) Papenfuss (now a rejected name). Flat specimens from this area, formerly referred to as G. foliifera (Førsskal) Börgesen, are now referred to as G. tikvahiae McLachlan. Accidentally introduced into the Mediterranean (Verlaque et al. 2015: 167) with Manila clams (Tapes philippinarum) imported for farming from the Pacific. Restricted currently (2015) to the N Adriatic Sea in the Mediterranean Sea; first found in 2008. It has now been reported to be introduced into a number of locations in NE Atlantic, including Britain and Ireland and Norway, and in Virginia, USA. - (22 June 2006) - G.M. Guiry

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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 24 October 2023. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 05 April 2025

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