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Rhizoclonium hieroglyphicum (C.Agardh) Kützing 1845

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Subkingdom Viridiplantae
Infrakingdom Chlorophyta infrakingdom
Phylum Chlorophyta
Subphylum Chlorophytina
Class Ulvophyceae
Order Cladophorales
Family Cladophoraceae
Genus Rhizoclonium

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Rhizoclonium hieroglyphicum (C.Agardh) Kützing
Prox. Collected by Melinda Lyons. In tufa deposits, Spanish Point, Co Clare, Ireland. 24 Apr 2012. © C.F.Carter (chris.carter at 6cvw.freeuk.com.

Rhizoclonium hieroglyphicum (C.Agardh) Kützing
Prox. Collected by Melinda Lyons. In tufa deposits, Spanish Point, Co Clare, Ireland. 24 Apr 2012. © C.F.Carter (chris.carter at 6cvw.freeuk.com.

 

Proselachista taeniiformis (Yamada) Y.-P.Lee & Garbary

Rhizoclonium hieroglyphicum (C.Agardh) Kützing Prox. Collected by Melinda Lyons. In tufa deposits, Spanish Point, Co Clare, Ireland
© C.F.Carter (chris.carter at 6cvw.freeuk.com

Publication details
Rhizoclonium hieroglyphicum (C.Agardh) Kützing 1845: 206

Published in: Kützing, F.T. (1845). Phycologia germanica, d. i. Deutschlands Algen in bündigen Beschreibungen. Nebst einer Anleitung zum Untersuchen und Bestimmen dieser Gewächse für Anfänger. pp. [i]-x, [1]-340 ['240']. Nordhausen: zu finden bei Wilh. Köhne.
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Type species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Rhizoclonium is Rhizoclonium juergensii (Mertens) Kützing.

Status of name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.

Basionym
Conferva hieroglyphica C.Agardh

Type information
Type locality: Carlsbad in udis speluncis rupium [Czech Republic] (Agardh 1827: 636).

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Conferva hieroglyphica C.Agardh 1827

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Rhizoclonium hieroglyphicum var. typicum De Toni
Rhizoclonium aponinum (Pollini) Kützing 1845
Microspora fontinalis (Berkeley) De Toni 1889

General environment
This is a marine species.

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Rhizoclonium hieroglyphicum (C.Agardh) Kützing)
Atlantic Islands: Iceland (Hallgrímsson 2007).

Europe: Balearic Islands (Cambra Sánchez, Álvarez Cobelas & Aboal Sanjurjo 1998), Belarus (Mikheyeva 1999), Britain (John 2002, Pentecost & Haworth 2021), Britain & Ireland (Whitton & al. 2003, John & al. 2011), Czech Republic (Czechia) (Kaštovský & al. 2018), Georgia (Barinova & al. 2011, Barinova & Kukhaleishvili 2014, Barinova & Kukhaleishvili 2017), Germany (Ludwig & Schnittler 1996, Mauch & Schmedtje 2003, Täuscher 2014, Täuscher 2016, Stutz & Mattern (eds) & al. 2018), Greece (Gerloff & Geissler 1974), Ireland (Adams 1908, West 1912, Guiry & al. 2007), Norway (Printz 1916), Poland (Wołowski & Kowalska 2009), Romania (Caraus 2017), Saxony (Germany) (Doege & al. 2022), Scandinavia (Karlason & al. 2018), Slovakia (Hindák & Hindáková 2016), Spain (Aboal & Llimona 1984, Aboal & Llimona 1984, Alvárez Cobelas & Gallardo 1986, Aboal 1988b, Aboal, Prefasi & Asencio 1996, Cambra Sánchez, Álvarez Cobelas & Aboal Sanjurjo 1998, Moreno et al. 2001, Cantoral Uiza & Aboal Sanjurjo 2001), Ukraine (Burova & al. 2011, Barinova & al. 2019, Tsarenko & al. 2024).

N. America: Arkansas (Smith 2010), Gulf of California (Norris, Aguilar-Rosas & Pedroche 2017), Illinois (Dillard & Tindall 1973), Laurentian Great Lakes (Prescott 1962, Prescott 1962), Mexico (Pedroche & Sentíes 2020), Missouri (Gier & Johnson 1954), Montana (Prescott & Dillard 1979), NE America (Saunders 2024), North America (Wehr & al. 2015), North Carolina (Whitford & Schumacher 1969), Northwest Territories (NT) (Sheath & Steinman 1982), Québec (QC) (Poulin & al. 1995), Saskatchewan (SK) (Hammer, Shamess & Haynes 1983), SE USA (Dillard 1989), Virginia (Forest 1954), West Virginia (McNeill 1948).

Central America: Mexico (Pacific) (Pedroche & al. 2005).

Caribbean Islands: Cuba (Comas 2009), Trinidad (West 1904).

S. America: Argentina (Tell 1985), Uruguay (Howe 1931).

Africa: Ghana (Smith, Smith & Nii Yemoh Annang 2015), Niger (Compère 1980), Sudan (Smith 2015).

Middle East: Iraq (Maulood & al. 2013), Israel (Barinova & al. 2006, Barinova & al. 2006, Barinova & Tavassi 2009, Barinova & al. 2004, Barinova & Smith 2022), Oman (El-Awamri & Hamed 2005), Turkey (Aysel 2005, Ersanli & Gönülol 2006, Taskin (ed.) & al. 2019).

South-west Asia: Bangladesh (Ahmed & al. 2008 ), India (Gupta 2012), Jammu & Kashmir (Lone & al. 2021), Jharkhand (Gupta 2021), Pakistan (Leghari et al. 2005, Zarina et al. 2007).

Asia: China (Hu & Wei 2006, Liu & Hu & al. 2012), Japan (Fukushima 1956, Hanyuda & al. 2002), Russia (Far East) (Medvedeva & Nikulina 2014), Tajikistan (Barinova & Niyatbekov 2018).

Australia and New Zealand: New South Wales (Day & al. 1995), New Zealand (Chapman, Thompson & Segar 1957), Queensland (Lewis 1987, Day & al. 1995, Phillips 1997, Phillips 2002, Bostock & Holland 2010), Victoria (Day & al. 1995).

Pacific Islands/Pacific Ocean: American Samoa (Skelton & al. 2004), Federated States of Micronesia (Lobban & Tsuda 2003, Lobban & Tsuda 2003, Tsuda 2006), French Polynesia (Pari & N'Yeurt 1999), Hawaiian Islands (Sherwood 2004), Samoan Archipelago (Skelton & South 1999).

Key references
Balkrishna, A. (2024). World herbal encyclopedia Volume 1. Algae [Acanthophora–Wrangelia]. pp. [i–xxxiii], 1–1136, numerous illustrations. Haridwar, Uttarakhand, India: Divya Prakashan.

Burova, O.V., Tsarenko, P.M., Kovalenko, O.V., Mikhailyuk, T.I., Petlovany, O.A., Lilitska, G.G. & Bilous, O.P. (2011). Ulvophyceae. In: Algae of Ukraine: diversity, nomenclature, taxonomy, ecology and geography. Volume 3: Chlorophyta. (Tsarenko, P.M., Wasser, S.P. & Nevo, E. Eds), pp. 20-61. Ruggell: A.R.A. Gantner Verlag K.-G.

Dillard, G.E. (1989). Freshwater algae of the southeastern United States, Part 2. Chlorophyceae: Ulotrichales, Oedogoniales. Bibliotheca Phycologica 83: [i-vi], 1-163, + 41 pls.

Hanyuda, T., Wakana, I., Arai, S., Miyaji, K., Watano, Y. & Ueda, K. (2002). Phylogenetic relationships within Cladophorales (Ulvophyceae, Chlorophyta) inferred from 18S rRNA gene sequences with special reference to Aegagropila linnaei. Journal of Phycology 38: 564-571.

Hu, H. & Wei, Y. (2006). The freshwater algae of China. Systematics, taxonomy and ecology. pp. [4 pls of 16 figs], [i-iv], i-xv, 1-1023. China: www.sciencep.com.

John, D.M. (2011). Phylum Chlorophyta. Order Cladophorales. In: The freshwater algal flora of the British Isles. An identification guide to freshwater and terrestrial algae. Second edition. (John, D.M., Whitton, B.A. & Brook, A.J. Eds), pp. 557-564. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Mathieson, A.C. & Dawes, C.J. (2017). Seaweeds of the Northwest Atlantic. pp. [i]-xi, 1-798, 109 pls. Amherst & Boston: University of Massachusetts Press.

Pedroche, F.F., Silva, P.C., Aguilar-Rosas, L.E., Dreckmann, K.M. & Aguilar-Rosas, R. (2005). Catálogo de las algas marinas bentónicas del Pacífico de México. I. Chlorophycota. pp. i-viii, 17-146. Ensenada, México: Universidad Autónoma de Baja California.

Prescott, G.W. (1962). Algae of the Western Great Lakes area. With an illustrated key to the genera of desmids and freshwater diatoms. Revised [Second] edition. pp. [i]-xiii, 1-977. Dubuque, Iowa: Wm. C. Brown Company Publishers 135 South Locust Street.

Saunders, G.W. (2024). NEAS keys to the benthic marine algae of the Northwest Atlantic and Canadian Arctic from Long Island Sound to Cambridge Bay 3rd edition, with the description of eight new species. Northeast Algal Society Contribution no. 3. pp. [i]-iv, 1–87. Bronx, New York: Northeast Algal Society.

Wehr, J., Sheath, R. & Kociolek, J.P. (2015). Freshwater algae of North America: ecology and classification. Ed. 2. pp. [1]-xvi, 1-1050. Amsterdam etc.: Elsevier, Academic Press.

Whitford, L.A. & Schumacher, G.J. (1969). A manual of the freshwater algae in North Carolina. Technical Bulletin of the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station 188: 1–313.

Zarina, G.R., Masud-ul-Hasan & Shameel, M. (2007). Taxonomic study of green macroalgae from Sialkot, Pakistan. International Journal of Phycology and Phycochemistry 3(2): 135-146.

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References
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Parodi, E.R. & Cáceres, E.J. (1993). Life history of freshwater populations of Rhizoclonium hieroglyphicum (Cladophorales, Chlorophyta). European Journal of Phycology 28: 69-74, 32 figs.

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