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Reassessment of branched Lithophyllum spp. (Corallinales, Rhodophyta) in the Caribbean Sea with global implications
Hernandez-Kantun, J.J.; Gabrielson, P.; Hughey, J.R.; Pezzolesi, L.; Rindi, F.; Robinson, N.M.; Peña, V.; Riosmena-Rodriguez, R.; Le Gall, L.; Adey, W. (2016). Reassessment of branched Lithophyllum spp. (Corallinales, Rhodophyta) in the Caribbean Sea with global implications. Phycologia 55(6): 619-639. https://dx.doi.org/10.2216/16-7.1
In: Phycologia. International Phycological Society: Odense. ISSN 0031-8884; e-ISSN 2330-2968, more
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Keywords
    Lithophyllum congestum (Foslie) Foslie, 1900 [WoRMS]; Lithophyllum daedaleum Foslie & M.Howe, 1906 [WoRMS]; Lithophyllum kaiseri (Heydrich) Heydrich, 1897 [WoRMS]; Lithophyllum neocongestum; Lithophyllum platyphyllum (Foslie) Foslie, 1900 [WoRMS]; Lithophyllum pseudoplatyphyllum
    Marine/Coastal
Author keywords
    Algal ridges; Lithophyllum congestum; Lithophyllum daedaleum;Lithophyllum kaiseri; Lithophyllum neocongestum sp nov.; Lithophyllumplatyphyllum; Lithophyllum pseudoplatyphyllum sp nov.; psbA; rbcL;Sequencing type material; Systematics
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  • Hernandez-Kantun, J.J.
  • Gabrielson, P.
  • Hughey, J.R.
  • Pezzolesi, L.
  • Rindi, F., more
  • Robinson, N.M.
  • Peña, V., more
  • Riosmena-Rodriguez, R.
  • Le Gall, L.
  • Adey, W.
Abstract
    Plastid-encoded rbcL and psbA sequences from branched, Caribbean Sea Lithophyllum specimens indicate that four species are present, not one. Short (263 base pairs) rbcL sequences from an isolectotype of L. kaiseri (Gulf of Suez) and the holotypes of L. congestum, L. daedaleum and L. platyphyllum (Caribbean Sea) show that L. congestum and L. daedaleum are conspecific with L. kaiseri, the last having nomenclatural priority. Lithophyllum platyphyllum, currently considered a synonym of L. congestum, is recognised as a valid species. Lithophyllum stictaeforme, originally described from the Mediterranean Sea, is not conspecific with L. kaiseri (as L. congestum) as previously suggested. Lithophyllum neocongestum sp. nov. and L. pseudoplatyphyllum sp. nov. are proposed. Together with L. platyphyllum, these three branched species are so far endemic to the Caribbean Sea. This is the first report, documented by DNA sequence data, of a coralline species (L. kaiseri) widespread through the tropical Indo-West Pacific Oceans, Red Sea and Caribbean Sea.
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