Bibliographic Detail
Mendoza-González, A.C., Sentíes, A., Mateo-Cid, L.E., Díaz-Larrea, J., Pedroche, F.F. & Villanueva, R.A., 2011
Reference:
Mendoza-González, A.C., Sentíes, A., Mateo-Cid, L.E., Díaz-Larrea, J., Pedroche, F.F. & Villanueva, R.A. (2011). Ochtodes searlesii sp. nov. (Gigartinales, Rhodophyta), from the Pacific tropical coast of Mexico, based on morphological and molecular evidence. Phycological Research 59: 250-258.
Abstract:
Ochtodes searlesii Mendoza-González, Mateo-Cid et
Sentíes sp. nov. is described from Michoacán, tropical
Mexican Pacific, on the basis of comparative morphology
and rbcL sequence analysis. It is distinguished
from other Ochtodes species by its erect axes arising
from an encrusting base, its small terete fronds, regularly
dichotomously branched axes, and obliquely
divided zonate tetrasporangia. Phylogenetic analyses
showed that three Pacific Mexican samples, from
Caletilla, Zapote and La Majahuita (Michoacán), were
identical and formed a distinctive and well supported
Clade segregated from other species of Ochtodes from
Brazil, Cuba, Ecuador, Guadeloupe and Mexico. The
Mexican entity is morphologically distinct from other
Ochtodes species as well. On this basis we propose a
new Ochtodes species.
