Polysiphonia
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|authority=Greville, 1823
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Polysiphonia, known as red hair algae,{{cite book |last1=Goemans |first1=Bob |title=The 'Living' Marine Aquarium Manual Basic And Advanced Husbandry For The 'Modern' Marine Aquarium |date=2012 |publisher=Salt Corner |isbn=978-0-615-60306-3 |url=https://www.saltcorner.com/LMAM/ShowChapter.php?ChapterID=18 |access-date=29 August 2024 |chapter=12 – Algae: the Good, Bad, and Ugly}} is a genus of filamentous red algae with about 19 species on the coasts of the British Isles{{cite book |author1=Maggs, C.A. |author2=Hommersand, M.H.|name-list-style=amp |year=1993 |title=Seaweeds of the British Isles. Volume 1: Rhodophyta |publisher=HMSO, London |isbn=978-0-11-310045-3 |oclc=28928653}} and about 200 species worldwide,Dickinson, C.I. 1963. British Seaweeds. The Kew Series including Crete in Greece, Antarctica and Greenland.{{cite web |url=http://www.algaebase.org/generadetail.lasso?genus_id=37461 |website=AlgaeBase |title=Polysiphonia Greville 1823: pl. 90 |author1=Norris, R.E. |author2=Guiry, M.D. |name-list-style=amp |date=2006-03-15}}{{cite book |author=Stegenga, H., Bolton,J.J. & Anderson,R.J.|year=1997| title=Seaweeds of the South African West Coast |publisher=Bolus Herbarium Number 18}} Its members are known by a number of common names.Recorded common names are olann dhearg, craonach, cúnach triosgar, cluaisíní, mileara, millreacha, salata tou yialou (σαλάτα του γιαλού) and lobster horns. It is in the order Ceramiales and family Rhodomelaceae.{{cite book |author=Abbott, I.A. & Hollenberg,G.J. |year=1976 |title=Marine Algae of California |publisher=Stanford University Press, California |isbn=978-0-8047-0867-8 |oclc=180623827}}
Description
Polysiphonia is a red alga, polysiphonous and usually well branched, with some plants reaching a length of about 30 cm. They are attached by rhizoids or haptera to a rocky surface or other alga. The thallus (tissue) consists of fine branched filaments each with a central axial filament supporting pericentral cells.Newton, L. 1931. A Handbook of the British Seaweeds. British Museum The number of these pericentral cells (4–24) is used in identification.{{Cite book |author=van den Hoek, C., Mann,D.G. & Jahns,M.H. |year=1995 |title=Algae: An Introduction to Phycology |publisher=Cambridge University Press, Cambridge |isbn=978-0-521-30419-1 |oclc=28182088}}{{cite journal |url=http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/indexmag.html?http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artmar99/red.html |title=Polysiphonia, a red alga |author=Parmentier,Jan |journal=Micscape Magazine |year=1999}}{{cite web |url=http://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/b-online/d44/polysiph.htm |title=Polysiphonia nigrescens |date=2003-07-31 |publisher=University of Hamburg |website=Botanik online |author=von Sengbusch,Peter |access-date=2007-05-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070501015617/http://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/b-online/d44/polysiph.htm |archive-date=2007-05-01 |url-status=dead }} Polysiphonia elongata{{cite web |author=Guiry,M.D. |date=2004-09-23 |website=AlgaeBase |title=Polysiphonia echinata Harvey |url=http://www.algaebase.org/speciesdetail.lasso?species_id=173&sk=40&from=results}} shows a central axial cell with 4 periaxial cells with cortical cells growing over the outside on the older fronds. Its cuticle contains bromine.{{Cite journal| first1= M. E. E.| last2=Roomans | first2=G. M.| first3=A. V. | title = Bromine in the Cuticle of Polysiphonia Nigrescens: Localization and Content| last1= Pedersén| last3=Hofsten| journal = Journal of Phycology | volume = 17 | pages = 105–108| year = 1981 | doi = 10.1111/j.0022-3646.1981.00105.x}}
Features used in identification include the number of pericentral cells, the cortication of main branches, constriction of young branches at their base, whether the branching dichotomous or spiral, and the width and length of thalli.
Distribution and ecology
Species have been recorded from Europe, Australia and New Zealand, North America and South America, islands in the Pacific Ocean, South Africa, southwest Asia, Japan, Greenland and Antarctica.
The species are entirely marine, found growing on rock, other algae, mussels or limpets and artificial substrata etc. from mid-littoral to at least 27 m depth. Many species are abundant in rock pools. Polysiphonia lanosa is commonly found growing on Ascophyllum nodosum.{{cite web |url=http://www.marlin.ac.uk/species/Polysiphonialanosa.htm |title=Polysiphonia lanosa |publisher=Marine Life Information Network for Britain & Ireland |access-date=2007-05-09 |archive-date=2010-02-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100206192533/http://www.marlin.ac.uk/species/Polysiphonialanosa.htm |url-status=dead }}
Reproduction and life cycle
The life-cycle of the red algae has three stages (triphasic). In Polysiphonia it consists of a sequence of a gametangial, carpospoangial and tetrasporangial phases.Smith, G.M. 1955. Cryptogamic Botany Algae and Fungi. Volume 1. Second Edition. p.337{{cite book |author=Dixon,P.D. |year=1973 |title=Biology of Rhodophyta |publisher=Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh |isbn=978-0-05-002485-0 |oclc=944032}}{{page needed|date=May 2021}} Male (haploid) plants (the male gametophytes) produce spermatia and the female plants (the female gametophytes) produce the carpogonium (the haploid carpogonium) which remains attached to the parent female plant. After fertilization the diploid nucleus migrates and fuses with an auxiliary cell. A complex series of fusions and developments follow as the diploid zygote develops to become the carposporophyte, this is a separate phase of the life-cycle and is entirely parasitic on the female, it is surrounded by the haploid pericarp of the parent female plant. The diploid carpospores produced in the carposporangium when released are non-motile, they settle and grow to form filamentous diploid plants similar to the gametophyte. This diploid plant is the tetrasporophyte which when adult produced spores in fours after meiosis. These spores settle and grow to become the male and female plants thus completing the cycle.{{page needed|date=May 2021}}{{cite book |author1=Mondragon, J. |author2=Mondragon, J. |name-list-style=amp |year=2003 |title=Seaweeds of the Pacific Coast |publisher=Sea Challengers, California |isbn=978-0-930118-29-7 |oclc=50912900}}{{page needed|date=May 2021}}
Species
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The species currently recognized are:
- P. abscissa
- P. abscissoides
- P. acanthina
- P. acuminata
- P. adamsiae
- P. adriatica
- P. amphibolis
- P. anisogona
- P. anomala
- P. arachnoidea
- P. arctica
- P. aterrima
- P. atlantica
- P. atra
- P. atricapilla
- P. australiensis
- P. azorica
- P. bajacali
- P. banyulensis
- P. barbatula
- P. baxteri
- P. beaudettei
- P. beguinotii
- P. bicornis
- P. biformis
- P. bifurcata
- P. binneyi
- P. blandii
- P. boergesenii
- P. boldii
- P. breviarticulata
- P. brevisegmenta
- P. brodiei
- P. caespitosa
- P. callithamnioides
- P. cancellata
- P. capucina
- P. carettia
- P. caspica
- P. castagnei
- P. castelliana
- P. ceramiaeformis
- P. cladorhiza
- P. coacta
- P. codicola
- P. collinsii
- P. confusa
- P. constricta
- P. corymbosa
- P. crassa
- P. crassicollis
- P. crassiuscula
- P. curta
- P. dasyoeformis
- P. daveyae
- P. decipiens
- P. decussata
- P. delicatula
- P. denudata
- P. derbesii
- P. deusta
- P. devoniensis
- P. dichotoma
- P. dotyi
- P. dumosa
- P. echigoensis
- P. echinata
- P. elongata - lobster horns
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- P. elongella
- P. erythraea
- P. exilis
- P. fernandeziana
- P. fibrata
- P. fibrillosa
- P. figariana
- P. flabelliformis
- P. flabellulata
- P. flexella
- P. flexicaulis
- P. flocculosa
- P. foeniculacea
- P. foetidissima
- P. forfex
- P. fracta
- P. fragilis
- P. fucoides
- P. funebris
- P. furcellata
- P. fuscorubens
- P. gonatophora
- P. gracilis
- P. guadalupensis
- P. guernisacii
- P. hancockii
- P. hapalacantha
- P. haplodasyae
- P. hassleri
- P. havanensis
- P. havaniensis
- P. hemisphaerica
- P. hendryi
- P. herpa
- P. hirta
- P. hochstetteriana
- P. hockstetteriana
- P. homoia
- P. howei
- P. implexa
- P. incompta
- P. indigena
- P. infestans
- P. isogona
- P. japonica
- P. johnstonii
- P. kampsaxii
- P. kappannae
- P. kieliana
- P. kotschyana
- P. kowiensis
- P. lanosa
- P. letestui
- P. macounii
- P. marchantae
- P. masonii
- P. mollis
- P. morrowii
- P. mottei
- P. muelleriana
- P. namibiensis
- P. nathanielii
- P. neglecta
- P. nhatrangense
- P. nhatrangensis
- P. nigra
- P. nigrescens
- P. nizamuddinii
- P. opaca
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- P. ornata
- P. orthocarpa
- P. pacifica
- P. paniculata
- P. paradoxa
- P. parthasarathyi
- P. parvula
- P. pentamera
- P. perforans
- P. pernacola
- P. perriniae
- P. platycarpa
- P. plectocarpa
- P. plectrocarpa
- P. polychroma
- P. polyspora
- P. porrecta
- P. propagulifera
- P. pseudovillum
- P. pulvinata
- P. quadrata
- P. ramentacea
- P. requienii
- P. rhododactyla
- P. rhunensis
- P. rigidula
- P. rudis
- P. saccorhiza
- P. sadoensis
- P. sanguinea
- P. scopulorum
- P. senticulosa
- P. sertularioides
- P. setigera
- P. shepherdii
- P. simplex
- P. simulans
- P. sinicola
- P. sonorensis
- P. sparsa
- P. sphaerocarpa
- P. spinosa
- P. stricta
- P. strictissima
- P. stuposa
- P. subtilissima
- P. subulata
- P. subulifera
- P. succulenta
- P. tapinocarpa
- P. teges
- P. tenerrima
- P. tenuistriata
- P. tepida
- P. tokidae
- P. tongatensis
- P. tripinnata
- P. triton
- P. tsudana
- P. tuberosa
- P. tuticorinensis
- P. unguiformis
- P. upolensis
- P. urbana
- P. urbanoides
- P. urceolata
- P. utricularis
- P. virgata
- P. yonakuniensis
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Notes
References
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External links
- [http://www.algaebase.org/search/pictures/?currentMethod=imgs&fromSearch=yes&displayCount=20&query=Polysiphonia Images] of Polysiphonia at Algaebase
- {{cite web |url=http://www.mbari.org/staff/conn/botany/reds/Sarah/index.htm |title=Polysiphonia |author=Sarah Skine |year=2000 |publisher=Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute |access-date=2007-05-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070417214142/http://www.mbari.org/staff/conn/botany/reds/Sarah/index.htm |archive-date=2007-04-17 |url-status=dead }}
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