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A Preliminary Phylogenetic Analysis of the Phyllophoraceae, Gigartinaceae and Petrocelidaceae (Rhodophyta) in the North Atlantic and North Pacific

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Evolutionary Biogeography of the Marine Algae of the North Atlantic

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Abstract

A preliminary cladistic analysis, using 71 characters and 64 taxa of carrageenan-containing algae from the Atlantic and Pacific, indicates that the Phyllophoraceae, Gigartinaceae and Petrocelidaceae are a monophyletic group of red algae. The cladogram is consistent with present familial concepts. Despite the loosely filamentous construction of most entities referred to the Gigartinaceae and the Petrocelidaceae, it appears that the Petrocelidaceae and the Phyllophoraceae may be more closely related, particularly regarding the formation of a sterile cell on the carpogonial branch, and the frequent production of tetrasporangia on crustose tetra-sporophytes that are similar in construction. At the generic level, many entities are poorly defined, with too much emphasis being placed on the form of the thallus as a generic character. Within the Gigartinaceae, precise studies of carposporophyte development and the mode of formation of tetrasporangia are necessary before a final generic scheme can be proposed. Within the Phyllophoraceae, the genus Phyllophora appears to be polyphyletic, and Phyllophora traillii is referred to the genus Erythrodermis as Erythrodermis traillii (Holmes ex Batters) comb. nov. The recent removal of the type species of Ahnfeltia from the Phyllophoraceae means that species of Gymnogongrus-like Phyllophoraceae previously referred to Ahnfeltia, should be removed to another genus. The cladogram is consistent with the notion that species of Gigartinaceae, Petrocelidaceae and Phyllophoraceae presently in the Adantic arose through vicariant speciation events distinguishing: (1) the north Atlantic and north Pacific (via the Arctic); (2) separating the North Pacific and North Atlantic (via the Tethys); and (3) distinguishing the warm eastern Pacific and warm western Atlantic (on either side of Central America).

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  1. Department of Botany, University College Galway, The National University of Ireland, Galway, Republic of Ireland

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Guiry, M.D., Garbary, D.J. (1990). A Preliminary Phylogenetic Analysis of the Phyllophoraceae, Gigartinaceae and Petrocelidaceae (Rhodophyta) in the North Atlantic and North Pacific. In: Garbary, D.J., South, G.R. (eds) Evolutionary Biogeography of the Marine Algae of the North Atlantic. NATO ASI Series, vol 22. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75115-8_14

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