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Mediterranean Lithophyllum stictiforme (Corallinales, Rhodophyta) is a genetically diverse species complex: implications for species circumscription, biogeography and conservation of coralligenous habitats
Pezzolesi, L.; Peña, V.; Le Gall, L.; Gabrielson, P.W.; Kaleb, S.; Hughey, J.R.; Rodondi, G.; Hernandez-Kantun, J.J.; Falace, A.; Basso, D.; Cerrano, C.; Rindi, F. (2019). Mediterranean Lithophyllum stictiforme (Corallinales, Rhodophyta) is a genetically diverse species complex: implications for species circumscription, biogeography and conservation of coralligenous habitats. J. Phycol. 55(2): 473-492. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jpy.12837
In: Journal of Phycology. Blackwell Science: New York. ISSN 0022-3646; e-ISSN 1529-8817, meer
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Trefwoorden
    Lithophyllum stictiforme (J.E. Areschoug) Hauck, 1877 [WoRMS]
    Marien/Kust
Author keywords
    biogenic habitats; biogeography; coralline algae; cox2; 3; cryptic species; ecosystem engineers; molecular phylogeny; psbA; rbcL

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  • Pezzolesi, L.
  • Peña, V., meer
  • Le Gall, L.
  • Gabrielson, P.W.
  • Kaleb, S.
  • Hughey, J.R.
  • Rodondi, G.
  • Hernandez-Kantun, J.J.
  • Falace, A.
  • Basso, D.
  • Cerrano, C.
  • Rindi, F.

Abstract
    Lithophyllum species in the Mediterranean Sea function as algal bioconstructors, contributing to the formation of biogenic habitats such as coralligenous concretions. In such habitats, thalli of Lithophyllum, consisting of crusts or lamellae with entire or lobed margins, have been variously referred to as either one species, L. stictiforme, or two species, L. stictiforme and L. cabiochiae, in the recent literature. We investigated species diversity and phylogenetic relationships in these algae by sequencing three markers (psbA and rbcL genes, cox2,3 spacer), in conjunction with methods for algorithmic delimitation of species (ABGD and GMYC). Mediterranean subtidal Lithophyllum belong to a well-supported lineage, hereby called the L. stictiforme complex, which also includes two species described from the Atlantic, L. lobatum and L. searlesii. Our results indicate that the L. stictiforme complex consists of at least 13 species. Among the Mediterranean species, some are widely distributed and span most of the western and central Mediterranean, whereas others appear to be restricted to specific localities. These patterns are interpreted as possibly resulting from allopatric speciation events that took place during the Messinian Salinity Crisis and subsequent glacial periods. A partial rbcL sequence from the lectotype of L. stictiforme unambiguously indicates that this name applies to the most common subtidal Lithophyllum in the central Mediterranean. We agree with recent treatments that considered L. cabiochiae and L. stictiforme conspecific. The diversity of Lithophyllum in Mediterranean coralligenous habitats has been substantially underestimated, and future work on these and other Mediterranean corallines should use identifications based on DNA sequences.

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