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Chaetomorpha aerea (Dillwyn) Kützing, 1849 
AphiaID: 145020

Classification: Biota > Plantae (Kingdom) > Viridaeplantae (Subkingdom) > Chlorophyta (Phylum) > Ulvophyceae (Class) > Cladophorales (Order) > Cladophoraceae (Family) > Chaetomorpha (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Chaetomorpha Kützing, 1845
Synonymised
taxa
  Chaetomorpha paucitatis Gilbert, 1965 (synonym)
Chaetomorpha princeps (Kützing) Kützing, 1845 (synonym)
Chaetomorpha variabilis (Kützing) Kützing, 1845
Chaetomorpha vasta Kützing, 1849 (synonym)
Chloronitum aerea (Dillwyn) Gaillon, 1828 (synonym)
Conferva aerea Dillwyn, 1806
Conferva princeps Kützing, 1843 (synonym)
Conferva variabilis Kützing, 1843 (synonym)
Conferva vasta Kützing, 1843 (synonym)
Sources  original description: Kützing, F.T. (1849). Species Algarum. F. A. Brockhaus: Lipsiae (Leipzig), Germany. VI-922 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

basis of record: Algaebase, available online at http://www.algaebase.org [details]

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]

basis of record: Silva, C., P. Basson & R. Moe (1996). Catalogue of the Benthic Marine Algae of the Indian Ocean. Volume 79 of University of California Publications in Botany (ISBN 0-520-09810-2). [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: Fredericq, S., T. O. Cho, S. A. Earle, C. F. Gurgel, D. M. Krayesky, L. E. Mateo-Cid, A. C. Mendoza-González, J. N. Norris, and A. M. Suárez. 2009. Seaweeds of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 187–259 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. I. Biodiversity, pp. 187-259. Texas A&M Univ. Press. [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: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Dutch borstelwier  [details]
Norwegian Bokmål fjærepyttsnøre  [details]
Norwegian Nynorsk fjørepyttsnøre  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Boulogne, Pointe de la Creche [details]
Dutch Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
Indian Ocean [details]
Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details]
Italy [details]
Kenya [details]
Marsdiep [details]
Mauritius [details]
Mediterranean Sea [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Pointe du Nid de Corbet [details]
Pointe du Riden [details]
South Africa [details]
South Africa (country) [details]
Tanzania [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Wimereux [details]
Links Published in AlgaeBase Logo AlgaeBase
To Barcode of Life
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (114 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To PESI
To ITIS
Notes  Species was mentioned in original list, but not in the final publication: Costello, M.J.; Emblow, C.; White, R. (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. Muséum national d'Histoire Naturelle: Paris, France. ISBN 2-85653-538-0. 463 pp. [details]

Diet: photosynthetic [details]

Distribution: Long Island Sound to Gulf of St. Lawrence [details]

Habitat: Known from rocky shores. [details]

Habitat: mid- to high littoral tide pools [details]

Morphology: Green colour from Chlorophyll a and b. [details]

Reproduction: general for group: asexual reproduction may be by fission (splitting), fragmentation or by zoospores (motile spores). Sexual reproduction may be isogamous (gametes both motile and same size); anisogamous (both motile and different sizes-female bigger) or oogamous (female non-motile and egglike; male motile) [details]
Images 
Chaetomorpha aerea
Chaetomorpha aerea
added on 2008-03-19 - author: Ignacio Bárbara
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Chaetomorpha aerea
Chaetomorpha aerea
added on 2008-03-19 - author: Ignacio Bárbara
qualitystatus: not checked

Chaetomorpha aerea
Chaetomorpha aerea
added on 2008-03-19 - author: Ignacio Bárbara
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:145020
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Guiry, Michael D.
  
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  Citation: Guiry, Michael D. (2013). Chaetomorpha aerea (Dillwyn) Kützing, 1849. In: Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2013). AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway (taxonomic information republished from AlgaeBase with permission of M.D. Guiry). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=145020 on 2013-05-25
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