Rhipilia Kützing, 1858
Lectotype species: Rhipilia tomentosa Kützing
Original publication: Kützing, F.T. (1858). Tabulae phycologicae; oder, Abbildungen der Tange. Vol. VIII pp. i-ii, 1-48, 100 plates. Nordhausen: Gedruckt auf kosten des Verfassers (in commission bei W. Köhne).
Request PDFType designated in: Gepp, A. & Gepp, E.S. (1911). The Codiaceae of the Siboga Expedition including a monograph of Flabellarieae and Udoteae Siboga-Expeditie Monographie LXII. pp. 1-150, 22 pls. Leiden: E.J. Brill.
Description: Thallus consists of clavate, flabellate, or infundibuliform uncalcified fronds. Blades are composed of a multi-layered meshwork of interwoven dichotomous to irregularly branched siphons, some of which are shorter and end in 2-6 blunt to spine-like processes, or "tenaculae", that attach tips to adjacent siphons of blades. Siphons may be constricted in the vicinity of branching. Genus heteroplastic. Species distinctions are based on habit, siphon diameters, positions, numbers and shapes of tenaculae, and presence and location of siphon constrictions. Rhipilia differs from Avrainvillea by its tenacular attachments, and its complete lack of differentiation into a distinct cortex and medulla. Mechanisms of reproduction have not been reported. Emended description (Lagourgue & Payri, 2021: 1463).
Information contributed by: J. Kraft. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2024-11-04 by M.D. Guiry.
Taxonomic status: This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Gender: This genus name is currently treated as feminine.
Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Cremen, C.M., Leliaert, F., West, J.[A.], Lam, D.W., Shimada, S. Lopez-Bautista, J.M. & Verbruggen, H. (2019). Reassessment of the classification of Bryopsidales (Chlorophyta) based on chloroplast phylogenomic analyses. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 130: 397-405, 2 figs.
Comments: Geographic distribution as known is mostly tropical in western Atlantic and western Pacific Oceans, with R. pusilla (Womersley) Ducker possibly occurring in warm temperate waters of southern Australia. Within site distribution includes seagrass meadows, and the reef slope; vertical range is about -0.5m to at least -30 m.
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Descriptions of chrysophyte genera were subsequently published in J. Kristiansen & H.R. Preisig (eds.). 2001. Encyclopedia of Chrysophyte Genera. Bibliotheca Phycologica 110: 1-260.
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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 04 November 2024. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 23 November 2024
