WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Porphyra umbilicalis (Linnaeus) Kützing, 1843

Porphyra umbilicalis (Linnaeus) Kützing, 1843
AphiaID: 144437

Classification: Biota > Plantae (Kingdom) > Biliphyta (Subkingdom) > Rhodophyta (Division) > Rhodophyceae (Class) > Bangiophycidae (Subclass) > Bangiales (Order) > Bangiaceae (Family) > Porphyra (Genus)

Status

accepted

Record
status

Checked by Taxonomic Editor

Rank

Species

Parent

Porphyra C. Agardh, 1824

Sources

basis of record: Guiry, M.D. (2001). Macroalgae of Rhodophycota, Phaeophycota, Chlorophycota, and two genera of Xanthophycota, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 20-38 (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source: Linkletter, L.E. 1977. A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B. 68 p. [details]

additional source: Sears, J.R. (ed.). 1998. NEAS keys to the benthic marine algae of the northeastern coast of North America from Long Island Sound to the Strait of Belle Isle. Northeast Algal Society. 163 p. [details]

additional source: South, G. R. and I. Tittley. 1986. A checklist and distributional index of the benthic marine algae of the North Atlantic Ocean. Huntsman Marine Laboratory. St. Andrews, New Brunswick. 76 p. [details]

additional source: Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source: Check list of Antarctic and Subantarctic Seaweeds by Wiencke C & Clayton MN, 2002. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source: Vanderperren, J.-P. (1991). Report Natural History Archive 1990 [Verslag Natuurhistorisch Archief 1990]. De Strandvlo 11(3): 65-75 (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 73 [details]

additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

Vernacular
Names

Language	Name
Dutch	navelwier	[details]
Dutch	purperwier	[details]
English	laver	[details]
French	porphyre	[details]

Environment

marine

Distribution

Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Boulogne, Pointe de la Creche [details]
De Panne [details]
Duinbergen [details]
Dutch Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Knokke [details]
Mediterranean Sea [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Pointe aux Oies (point) [details]
Pointe du Nid de Corbet [details]
Wimereux [details]
Zeebrugge [details]
Zeeland [details]

Links

To AlgaeBase
To GenBank
Marine Life Information Network - UK
To Barcode of Life (42 barcodes)
To ITIS

Notes

Diet: photosynthetic [details]

Distribution: Long Island Sound to Strait of Belle Isle [details]

Habitat: on rock or epiphytic, preferring shaded areas [details]

Morphology: Red colour results from the dominance of the pigments phycoerythrin and phycocyanin; this masks the other pigments, chlorophyll a (no chlorophyll b), beta-caratene and a number of unique xanthophylls. [details]

Reproduction: vegetative reproduction is rare; asexual reproduction is effected by the formation of various kinds of spores; Sexual reproduction is unique in this group due to their passive, non flagellated sperm cells (spermatia) [details]

Edit
history

Date	action	by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z	created	Guiry, M.D.

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Citation: Guiry, M.D. (2009). Porphyra umbilicalis (Linnaeus) Kützing, 1843. Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=144437 on 2010-07-30

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