Padina terricolor Ni-Ni-Win, M.Uchimura & H.Kawai 2010

Publication Details
Padina terricolor Ni-Ni-Win, M.Uchimura & H.Kawai 2010: 145, 147, figs 8, 9, 28-32

Published in: Ni-Ni-Win, Hanyuda, T., Arai, S., Uchimura, M., Prathep, A., Draisma, S.G.A., Soe-Htun & Kawai, H. (2010). Four new species of Padina (Dictyotales, Phaeophyceae) from the western Pacific Ocean, and reinstatement of Padina japonica. Phycologia 49: 136-153.

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Type Species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Padina is Padina pavonica (Linnaeus) Thivy.

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

Type Information
Type locality: Genka, Okinawa Island, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan; (Ni-Ni-Win & al. 2010: 147) Holotype: M. Uchimura ; 22 June 2007; subtidal up to 20 m deep; SAP; 106499 (Ni-Ni-Win & al. 2010: 147)

General Environment
This is a marine species.

Description
Thalli circular or semicircular, with entire margin, wider than tall at up to 6 cm wide and 4 cm tall, rarely split when young, becoming shallowly split into fan-shaped segments (2–2.5 cm wide) when older, rigid in texture, grayish brown on inferior surface, grayish white on superior surface, moderately to heavily calcified on both surfaces except for hair lines, covered with long fibrous hairs from the base to 1–2 cm upward, attached by a discoidal holdfast, two cells thick throughout; cells of superior surface nearly 1.5 times as tall as those of inferior surface; Vaughaniella stages present. Concentric hair lines alternating between both surfaces in unequal distance (2–3 mm apart on each surface), forming reddish-brown line at the upper end of a broad depressed line (0.1–0.15 mm wide) on inferior surface, but a red narrow line on superior surface. Thalli dioecious. Oogonia and tetrasporangia obovate, 36.25 ± 3.58 µm wide, 52.5 ± 2.56 µm long, and 84.75 ± 3.76 µm wide, 172.75 ± 2.55 µm long, respectively, in continuous lines adjacent to hair lines distally on inferior surface, and covered with persistent indusium. Antheridial sori in broken lines or patches near hair lines distally on inferior surface, without indusium.

Created: 05 May 2010 by M.D. Guiry.

Last updated: 21 February 2012

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G.M. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 21 February 2012. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 28 March 2024

 
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