WoRMS taxon details
Ulva rigida C.Agardh, 1823
AphiaID: 145990
AphiaID: 145990
| Classification: Biota > Plantae (Kingdom) > Viridaeplantae (Subkingdom) > Chlorophyta (Phylum) > Ulvophyceae (Class) > Ulvales (Order) > Ulvaceae (Family) > Ulva (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Ulva Linnaeus, 1753 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Letterstedtia petiolata J.Agardh, 1883 (synonym) Phycoseris gigantea var. perforata Kützing, 1849 (synonym) Phycoseris rigida (C.Agardh) Kützing, 1843 (synonym) Phycoseris ulva Sonder, 1845 (synonym) Ulva armoricana P.Dion, B.de Reviers & G.Coat, 1998 Ulva australis Areschoug, 1854 (synonym) Ulva lactuca var. rigida (C.Agardh) Le Jolis, 1863 (synonym) Ulva petiolata (J.Agardh) Womersley, 1956 (synonym) Ulva scandinavica Bliding, 1969 Ulva spathulata Papenfuss, 1960 (synonym) Ulva thuretii B.Föyn, 1955 (synonym) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Agardh, C.A. (1823). Species algarum. Lund, Sweden [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: Algaebase, available online at http://www.algaebase.org [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: 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: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [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 (from synonym): 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] [view taxon] additional source (from synonym): Streftaris, N.; Zenetos, A.; Papathanassiou, E. (2005). Globalisation in marine ecosystems: the story of non-indigenous marine species across European seas. Oceanogr. Mar. Biol. Ann. Rev. 43: 419-453 (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
| |||||||||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Forma Ulva rigida f. pacifica C.Agardh Forma Ulva rigida f. tropica Jaasund, 1976 Variety Ulva rigida var. fimbriata (Welwitsch) J.Agardh, 1883 Forma Ulva rigida f. laciniata J.Agardh, 1883 accepted as Ulva lactuca f. laciniata (J.Agardh) De Toni, 1889 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra [details] Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Boulogne, Digue du Nord (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Dutch Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Indian Ocean [details] Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details] Israeli part of the Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mauritius [details] Mediterranean Sea [details] Mozambique [details] North West Atlantic [details] Oostende (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Reunion [details] Seychelles [details] Somalia [details] South Africa (country) [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Wimereux (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||||||||
| Links | Published in AlgaeBase  To Barcode of Life (26 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (95 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (50 nucleotides; 41 proteins) To PESI To ITIS | |||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Diet: photosynthetic [details] Dimensions: up to 20 cm long but up to 1m when free-floating [details] Distribution: Long Island sound, Gulf of Maine to Strait of Belle Isle [details] Habitat: Known from the nearshore. [details] Habitat: intertidal zone and shallow sublittoral attached to any hard substrata or epiphytic, growing on the open coast or estuaries extending into brackish waters; low littoral to shallow sublittoral [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 |
| |||||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:145990 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
| |||||||||||||||||||
[Taxonomic tree] [Distribution map] [Google] [Google scholar] [Google images] | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Citation: Guiry, Michael D. (2013). Ulva rigida C.Agardh, 1823. 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=145990 on 2013-06-19 | ||||||||||||||||||||
 The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License |
