Gracilaria multipartita (Clemente) Harvey 1846
Current name:
Gracilaria multipartita (Clemente) Harvey
Spain, Galicia, A Coruña, ría de A Coruña, 2004Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es)
Publication Details
Gracilaria multipartita (Clemente) Harvey 1846: pl. XV [15]
Published in: Harvey, W.H. (1846). Phycologia britannica, or, a history of British sea-weeds: containing coloured figures, generic and specific characters, synonymes, and descriptions of all the species of algae inhabiting the shores of the British Islands. pp. Text with plates, pls I-LXXVIII. London: Reeve & Benham.
Original description: 
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
Fucus multipartitus Clemente
Type Information
Type locality: Andalusia; (Athanasiadis 1996: 64) Lectotype: MA; (Rodríguez-Prieto et al. 2016: 452) Notes: cir. Algeciras, Tarifa et Gades (INA).
Origin of Species Name
Adjective (Latin), divided into many parts (Stearn 1983).
General Environment
This is a marine species.
Created: 13 May 1996 by M.D. Guiry.
Last updated: 05 November 2018
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Irish note
Only known from detached plants in Ireland. Formerly recorded as Gracilaria foliifera but this latter is an Indian Ocean species that apparently does not occur in the Atlantic (Guiry & Freamhainn 1985). See Steentoft & Farnham (1997). - (11 May 2006) - G.M. Guiry
Nomenclatural notes
Abbott (1995: 191) cites the authority for this species as J. Agardh. - (11 May 2006) - G.M. Guiry
Harvey (1846, pl. XV, expl. pl.) refers the combination to J. Agardh (Alg. med. 151, 1842) but it was not made there. - (17 February 2010) - M.D. Guiry
Taxonomic note
Formerly reported from the north-eastern Atlantic as Gracilaria foliifera, an Indian Ocean species that apparently does not occur in the Atlantic (Guiry & Freamhainn 1985). See, also, Steentoft & Farnham (1997). Lawson & John (1987) note that Bodard ( pers. comm.) believes that the West African plants referred to this species closely resemble the Canary Island plant identified as Gracilaria lacinulata by Børgesen (1929). Bodard (1966a) suggests that most of the Sénégal plants formerly called G. dentata should more correctly be referred to the European G. foliifera (now G. multipartita) and that some of the African and Canary plants which had been given this latter name may be a new, and as yet, undescribed species. John et a. (2004) cite Gracilaria corallicola Zanardini, G. foliifera (Forssk.) Børgesen and G. lacinulata (H. West) M. Howe as synonyms of this species. They refer to Hardy & Guiry (2003) for comments concerning the status of records of Gracilaria foliifera in the Atlantic Ocean. - (11 May 2006) - G.M. Guiry
Habitat note
subtidal and intertidal on rocks and shells in sand (Steentoft & Farnham, 1997) and subtidal on maërl bottoms (Rodríguez-Prieto et al. 2016). - (19 January 2017) - G.M. Guiry
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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 05 November 2018. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 01 April 2025
