Lithophyllum longense (Corallinales, Rhodophyta): a species with a widespread Indian Ocean distribution

G.W. Maneveldt; P.W. Gabrielson; R.A. Townsend; J. Kangwe

doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.419.2.2

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Lithophyllum longense (Corallinales, Rhodophyta): a species with a widespread Indian Ocean distribution

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Lithophyllum longense (Corallinales, Rhodophyta): a species with a widespread Indian Ocean distribution

G.W. Maneveldt, P.W. Gabrielson, R.A. Townsend and J. Kangwe

Phytotaxa, Vol.419(2), pp.149-168

2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.419.2.2

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Abstract

Lithophyllum longense is characterized from Long Reef, Western Australia, Australia and from Chwaka Bay, Zanzibar Island, Tanzania. Both plastid markers psbA and rbcL confirm that L. longense is a distinct species despite its being morpho-anatomically nearly indistinguishable from several other fruticose Lithophyllum species, differing in only one (from L. atlanticum, L. platyphyllum, L. sublicatum, L. yemenense) or two (from L. affine, L. incrustans, L. kotschyanum, L. neocongestum, L. kaiseri, L. pseudoplatyphyllum, L. subreduncum) character states. This is only the second tropical Lithophyllum species and the fourth tropical species confirmed by DNA sequencing to be widely distributed in the Indo-West Pacific.

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Title: Lithophyllum longense (Corallinales, Rhodophyta): a species with a widespread Indian Ocean distribution
Authors/Creators: G.W. Maneveldt (Author/Creator) - University of the Western Cape
P.W. Gabrielson (Author/Creator) - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
R.A. Townsend (Author/Creator) - Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions
J. Kangwe (Author/Creator) - Tanzania Fisheries Research Institute
Publication Details: Phytotaxa, Vol.419(2), pp.149-168
Publisher: Magnolia Press
Identifiers: 991005541949707891
Murdoch Affiliation: Murdoch University
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article

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