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Proposal of the Name vieillardii (Ku¨ tz.), n. comb., for a Large-Celled Tropical Chaetomorpha ()1

Michael J. Wynne2

Abstract: Type material of Bangia vieillardii Ku¨tz. from New Caledonia has been studied and determined to belong to the green algal genus Chaetomorpha. The name Chaetomorpha vieillardii (Ku¨tz.), n. comb., is effected, and this bino- mial is proposed to serve for what has previously been known in tropical seas as C. crassa. Genuine C. crassa (C. Agardh) Ku¨tz., based on European type speci- mens, has been treated by others to be conspecific with C. linum (O. F. Mu¨ll.) Ku¨tz.

The name Chaetomorpha crassa (C. Agardh) genetically distinct (see also Hanyuda et al. Ku¨tz. has been commonly applied to a large- 2002, Leliaert et al. 2003). This taxonomic celled, usually unattached filamentous green synonymy had been earlier suggested (Parke algal species of the genus occurring com- and Dixon 1976) on the basis of an unpub- monly in tropical and warm temperate waters. lished Ph.D. thesis (Price 1967). According The species was originally described by C. to Leliaert and Boedeker (2007) the so-called Agardh (1824, as Conferva crassa) from syn- tropical ‘‘C. crassa’’ has to be renamed because type localities in Italy and England. It has the type of C. crassa is based on European been distinguished from the widespread C. li- material. In this note I propose to offer an ap- num (O. F. Mu¨ll.) Ku¨tz. by the crisp (stiff and propriate name to be applied to this widely wiry) filaments and thicker walls in contrast occurring unattached tropical Chaetomorpha. to the rather lax filaments and thinner walls A paper by Millar and Prud’homme van in C. linum (Sartoni 1992, Littler and Littler Reine (2005) did much to clarify the uncer- 1997, Coppejans et al. 2009). Both species tain status of a number of species of benthic are reported to form clumps, often entangled marine algae that had been collected by Eu- with other algal species. Although cell dimen- ge´ne Vieillard in the period 1855–1867 from sions are usually reported to be greater in C. New Caledonia and described by Ku¨tzing. crassa than in C. linum (Littler and Littler Ku¨tzing described and validated some of the 2000), there is some overlap; filament diame- names of these Vieillard collections in an ob- ters in C. linum reach 1,000 mm (Leliaert and scure publication, which was printed as the Boedeker 2007). A recent treatment of Chae- Easter program of the secondary school tomorpha in Britain and Ireland (Leliaert and where he taught (Ku¨tzing 1863a). But this Boedeker 2007) came to the conclusion, publication was reprinted in the same year in based on unpublished data by Boedeker, that the journal Hedwigia (Ku¨tzing 1863b), facili- C. crassa is conspecific with C. linum, but the tating its dissemination. This communication tropical ‘‘C. crassa’’ is morphologically and will also clarify the status of Bangia vieillardii Ku¨tz.

1 Manuscript accepted 20 April 2010. materials and methods 2 University of Michigan Herbarium, 3600 Varsity Drive, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48108 (e-mail: mwynne Two isotypes of Bangia vieillardii in the Uni- @umich.edu). versity of Michigan Herbarium (mich) were studied in this report. A microimaging system (Epson Scan Ver. 1.28A, Seiko Epson Corp.) Pacific Science (2011), vol. 65, no. 1:109–115 doi: 10.2984/65.1.109 was used to capture an image of one of the : 2011 by University of Hawai‘i Press isotypes of Bangia vieillardii, and the software All rights reserved program Adobe Photoshop CS3 Version 10.0

109 110 PACIFIC SCIENCE . January 2011 was used to prepare Figure 1. The line draw- which are now deposited in the Nationaal ings were prepared using a camera lucida Herbarium Nederland (L). But regarding mounted on a standard research microscope Bangia vieillardii, Millar and Prud’homme (Zeiss). Author abbreviations of taxa are van Reine indicated that their material (the in accordance with Brummitt and Powell holotype) was ‘‘not well preserved’’ and (1992), and herbarium abbreviations are ac- ‘‘thus difficult to identify with certainty.’’ cording to Thiers (2010). Colleagues at Uni- Ku¨tzing’s (1863a,b) description of B. vieillar- versite´ de Caen (CN), Caen, France, and dii is the following: ‘‘B. trichomatibus crassis Muse´um national d’histoire naturelle (PC), setaceis, rigidis, cartilagineis, maxime curvatis Paris, France, were requested to check for et crispis, inaequaliter nodulosis, omnibus any material of Bangia (or Chaetomorpha) opacis; cellulis numerosissimis minoribus, vieillardii in their holdings. monogonimicis.—Neu-Caledoniae.’’ De Toni (1897) treated this taxon unchanged in results status but in the category of ‘‘Species mihi omnino ignotae aut valde dubiae.’’ Millar and Prud’homme van Reine (2005) I noticed that in mich there are two packets were able to examine many of the Vieillard of what clearly represent isotypes of Bangia collections of algae from New Caledonia, vieillardii, both Vieillard No. 2010 (Figure 1),

Figure 1. Isotype of Bangia vieillardii Ku¨tzing in mich. Chaetomorpha vieillardii (Ku¨tz.), n. comb. . Wynne 111

Loc. Wagap, Novelle Cale´donie, both dis- were observed. Such words in the protologue tributed by the ‘‘herb. Lenormand,’’ and as ‘‘crassis,’’ ‘‘rigidis,’’ ‘‘cartilagineis,’’ and both bearing the names ‘‘Bangia Vieillardii’’ ‘‘crispis’’ do conform to the concept of this and ‘‘Chaetomorpha Vieillardii (Kg.) Lenorm.’’ widespread ‘‘C. crassa’’ in need of a proper This latter name appears never to have been name. validated. The material in both isotypes is Eight isotypes of Bangia [Chaetomorpha] abundant and well preserved. This alga is vieillardii (collected by Vieillard) are present clearly a Chaetomorpha as Lenormand had in the Vieillard Herbarium in CN, all in thought. The simple filaments are slightly Vieillard’s handwriting with annotations by curving and loosely entangled. Cells mea- Lenormand: ‘‘E. Vieillard herb. De la Nelle sure 486–534(–568) mm in diameter and Cale´donie no. 2010’’ and ‘‘Chaetomorpha vieil- (486–)730–890(–1,020) mm in length, with a lardii Kg (nobis).’’ No material of B. vieillardii mean length/width ratio (LWR) of 1.0– was found in PC. 1.5(–1.8) (Figure 2). Cell walls appear thick, measuring 10–14 mm. The filaments are discussion slightly constricted at the septations. No ob- vious or distinctive basal attachment cells So-called Chaetomorpha crassa has been widely recorded from tropical seas including reports from Papua New Guinea (Coppejans et al. 1995, 2001b), Indonesia (Coppejans and Prud’homme van Reine 1992), Guam (Lob- ban and Tsuda 2003), Fiji (N’Yeurt at al. 1996, South and Skelton 2003), throughout the Indian Ocean (Silva et al. 1996), including the east coast of Africa ( Jaasund 1976, Sar- toni 1992, Coppejans et al. 2001a, Leliaert et al. 2003) and Sri Lanka (Børgesen 1936, Coppejans et al. 2009), the Philippines (Trono and Ganzon-Fortes 1980, Calum- pong and Men˜ ez 1997), Pacific Mexico (Pe- droche et al. 2005), Chile, Peru, Isla Juan Ferna´ndez and Easter Island (Ramı´rez and Santelices 1991), tropical West Africa ( John et al. 2003), and the tropical/subtropical west- ern Atlantic (Taylor 1960, Schnetter 1978, Ballantine and Wynne 1986, Schneider and Searles 1991, Littler and Littler 2000, Schneider 2003, Dawes and Mathieson 2008, Alves et al. 2009). But it has also been re- corded from warm temperate waters of Japan (Yoshida 1998) and Korea (Lee and Kang 1986). It is worth mentioning that this unat- tached tropical C. crassa has an economic role locally in the Indian Ocean, such as in Tanzania (Oliveira et al. 2005) and in the Philippines and other Southeast Asian sites, where it is used in the human diet (Zaneveld 1959, Trono and Ganzon-Fortes 1980). Figure 2. Camera lucida drawings of portions of fila- Measurements of the cell diameter in the ments (a, b)ofBangia vieillardii (¼ Chaetomorpha vieillar- type material of Bangia vieillardii compare dii) from isotype in mich. favorably with those reported for so-called 112 PACIFIC SCIENCE . January 2011

Chaetomorpha crassa: 600–700(–900) mm and Indian oceans, are distinctively coiled (Trono and Ganzon-Fortes 1980); 450–750 (Okamura 1912, Abbott and Hollenberg mm (Sartoni 1992); and 400–650 mm Coppe- 1976, Coppejans et al. 2009). jans et al. 2001b). According to Coppejans et According to Silva et al. (1996), Chaetomor- al. (2009), this widely occurring species can pha torulosa Ku¨tz. (Ku¨tzing 1845) is conspe- be easily distinguished from other unattached cific with C. crassa. Chaetomorpha torulosa is Chaetomorpha species by the coarser fila- regarded as a nomen novum, being based on ments. The cell size, however, does not the illegitimate name Conferva torulosa Ku¨tz. come close to the much larger size of the cells (Ku¨tzing 1845), with a type locality of Cro- in the attached species C. coliformis (Mont.) atia, Adriatic Sea. Silva et al. (1996) based Ku¨tz., occurring in southern Australia (Wom- that treatment on the authority of Ardissone ersley 1984), New Zealand (Adams 1994), (1886). The current treatment by Leliaert and Chile (Hooker 1847, as Conferva clavata and Boedeker (2007) of C. crassa as conspe- var. darwinii Hook. f. & Harv.). Chaetomorpha cific with C. linum also means that the coliformis has filaments with mature parts European-based C. torulosa is a taxonomic 1–4(–5) mm in diameter (Womersley 1984). synonym of C. linum. Similarly, the cell sizes of C. melagonium (F. In conclusion and in light of the informa- Weber & D. Mohr) Ku¨tz., a widely occurring tion presented here, the following transfer is attached species, are greater in width (about 1 effected: mm) and with a basal attachment cell 2–3 mm long (de Goe¨r and Noailles 2008, Leliaert Chaetomorpha vieillardii (Ku¨tz.) M. J. Wynne, et al. 2009). is a n. comb. cold-temperate Northern Hemisphere spe- basionym: Bangia vieillardii Ku¨tz., cies (records from South America, Australia, 1863a:10. and New Zealand need to be confirmed by holotype: L 939,271–939,279 (fide molecular data). The widespread tropical Millar and Prud’homme van Reine 2005). attached species C. antennina (Bory) Ku¨tz. is isotypes: In CN and MICH. distinguished by the basal cells having annu- lar constrictions and the characteristic brush- The name Chaetomorpha vieillardii is pro- like tufts (De Clerck et al. 2005, Coppejans posed as being available to apply for tropical et al. 2009). Chaetomorpha firma Levring is collections of Chaetomorpha with appropriate an attached, large-celled species but is distin- large cell sizes that had formerly been identi- guished by the very long basal cells (1–3 cm fied as C. crassa, now that that name has been in length), without annular constrictions; it treated as a taxonomic synonym of C. linum. is endemic to Chile and its oceanic islands (Levring 1941, Hoffmann and Santelices acknowledgments 1997). Thalli of C. robusta (Aresch.) Papenf. are large-celled, attached filaments, the distal I am grateful to Dr. Chantal Billard of Uni- cells becoming almost spherical and up to versite´ de Caen, France, and Dr. Bruno de about 2 mm in diameter (Simons 1976) and Reviers of Muse´um national d’histoire na- basal cells 5–12 mm long. This species is re- turelle, Paris, France, for their assistance in stricted to South Africa (Stegenga et al. 1997) searching for additional material of Bangia and Namibia (Rull Lluch 2002). Chaetomor- vieillardii. I also thank Jeff Nero of PC Helps pha moniligera Kjellm., with a distribution re- Support, LLC, Philadelphia, for his remote stricted to Japan and Korea, is also a species assistance in preparing the figures. with attached, large-celled filaments. Its fila- ments are fine, soft, and slender and attached Literature Cited by a discoid holdfast (Okamura 1929). Fi- nally, the attached, large-celled filaments of Abbott, I. A., and G. J. Hollenberg. 1976. C. spiralis Okamura, with a wide range in Marine algae of California. Stanford Uni- temperate and tropical waters of the Pacific versity Press, Stanford, California. Chaetomorpha vieillardii (Ku¨tz.), n. comb. . Wynne 113

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