Notas corológicas sobre algas rojas gelatinosas efímeras de los fondos de las Islas canarias
- Afonso Carrillo, Julio Manuel
- San Gil Hernández, Carlos Alberto
- Sansón Acedo, Marta
- Betancor Pérez, Jorge Juan (coord.)
ISSN: 1130-4723
Year of publication: 2007
Volume: 19
Issue: 3-4
Pages: 67-74
Type: Article
More publications in: Revista de la Academia Canaria de Ciencias: = Folia Canariensis Academiae Scientiarum
Abstract
Chorological data on three species of marine red algae are presented. They are characterized by life cycles with heteromorphic alternance of generations and seasonal growth of gelatinous macroscopic gametophytes, which have been very rarely reported in the Canary Islands. The new locality in La Palma where Reticulocaulis mucosissimus was found, represents the second finding in the Atlantic Ocean of a species that was known exclusively from Hawaii and the Sea of Arabia. Itonoa marginifera, a northeastern Atlantic species previously reported from Lanzarote, Fuerteventura y La Palma, is identified for the first time in Tenerife. The finding in Lanzarote oi Predaea huismanii represents the second report in the Atlantic Ocean of a species originally described for Australia and previously collected in a single locality of Tenerife.