Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

The genera Lithothamnium, Leptophytum (nov. gen.) and Phymatolithon in the Gulf of Maine

  • Published:
Hydrobiologia Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Summary

This paper is the fourth of a series covering the crustose corallines of the Gulf of Maine. Information on anatomy, cytology and the development of the reproductive structures is presented to show that Lithothamnium and Leptophytum (new genus) are distinct from Clathromorphum and Phymatolithon. An additional species, P. lenormandi, is placed in Phymatolithon. The reproductive patterns and geographic and bathymetric distributions of the five species involved are presented and discussed.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Similar content being viewed by others

Literature

  • Adey, W. H. - 1964 - The genus Phymatolithon in the Gulf of Maine. Hydrobiologia XXIV, 1–3: 377–420.

    Google Scholar 

  • Adey, W. H. - 1965 - The genus Clathromorphum in the Gulf of Maine. Hydrobiologia XXVI, 3–4: 539–573.

    Google Scholar 

  • Adey, W. H. - 1966 - The genus Pseudolithophyllum in the Gulf of Maine. Hydrobiologia. XXVII, 3–4: 479–497.

    Google Scholar 

  • Areschoug, J. E. - 1852 - Corallinaceae. In J. Agardh, Species genera et ordines Algarum, vol. 2: pt. 2, 377–720. Lund.

  • Børgeson, F. - 1902 - The Marine Algae of the Faeröes, p. 339–352, figs. 51–110. Bot. of the Faeroes, pt. 2. Copenhagen.

  • Dawson, E. Y. - 1960 - Marine red algae of Pacific Mexico, Part 3, Cryptonemiales, Corallinaceae subf. Melobesioideae. Pacific Naturalist 2, 1: 11–25.

    Google Scholar 

  • De Toni, G. B. - 1905 - Sylloge algarum omnium hucusque cognitarum. 4, 4: 1523–1973.

    Google Scholar 

  • Farlow, W. G. - 1881 - The marine algae of New England. Rep. U.S. Comm. Fish & Fisheries for 1879, Appendix A—1: 1–210. (1882).

  • Foslie, M. H. - 1891a - Contribution to knowledge of the marine algae of Norway. I. East-Finmarken. Tromso Mus. Aarsheft. 13: 186 pp.

  • Foslie, M. H. - 1891b - Contribution to knowledge of the marine algae of Norway. II. Species from different tracts. Tromso Mus. Aarsheft. 14: 36–58.

    Google Scholar 

  • Foslie, M. H. - 1895 - The Norwegian forms of Lithothamnium. K. Norske Vidensk. Selk. Skr. 1894: 29–208.

    Google Scholar 

  • Foslie, M. H. - 1898 - Systematical survey of the Lithothamnia. K. Norske Vidensk. Selk. Skr. 1898, 2: 1–7.

    Google Scholar 

  • — 1901 - Rev. systematical survey of the Melobesieae. Ibidem 1900, 5: 22 pp.

  • Foslie, M. H. - 1905 - Remarks on northern Lithothamnia. K. Norske Vidensk. Selk. Skr. 1905, 3: 1–138.

    Google Scholar 

  • Foslie, M. H. - 1906 - Algolgiske Notiser II. K. Norske Vidensk. Selk. Skr. 1906, 2: 1–28.

    Google Scholar 

  • Foslie, M. H. - 1908 - Algolgiske Notiser V. K. Norske Vidensk. Selk. Skr. 1908, 7: 1–20.

    Google Scholar 

  • — 1929 - Contributions to a Monograph of the Lithothamnia. Ed. by H. Printz, 60 pp. Trondheim.

  • Hamel, G. & Lemoine, M. - 1953 - Corallinacées de France et d'Afrique du Nord. Arch. Mus. nat. Hist. naturelle VII, 1: 15–136.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hauk, F. - 1885 - Die Meeresalgen Deutschlands und Oesterreichs. 575 pp., 236 figs., 6 pls. Leipzig.

  • Heydrich, F. - 1900 - Die Lithothamnien von Helgoland. Wiss. Meeresuntersuch., (Abt. Helgoland). N.F. 4: 63–82.

    Google Scholar 

  • Heydrich, F. - 1911 - Die Lithothamnien von Roscoff. Ber. D. bot. Ges. 29, 2: 26–33.

    Google Scholar 

  • Howe, M. A. - 1927 - Hudson Bay Algae. Rep. Canadian Arctic Exped. 1913–1918, 4 (Botany): 18–29.

    Google Scholar 

  • Johnson, J. H. - 1961 - Limestone Building Algae and Algal Limestones. 297 pp., 139 pls., 14 tables. Boulder, Colorado.

  • Johnson, H. - 1901 - The marine algae of Iceland. I. Rhodophyceae. Bot. Tidsskr. 24, 2: 127–155.

    Google Scholar 

  • Johnson, H. - 1904 - The marine algae of East Greenland. Meddl. Gronl. 30: 1–73.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kjellman, F. R. - 1883 - The algae of the Arctic Sea. K. Svensk. Vet. Akad. Handl. 20, 5: 1–349.

    Google Scholar 

  • Knight, M. & Parke, M. - 1931 - Manx Algae. Mem. Liverpool Mar. Biol. Comm. 30: 1–147.

    Google Scholar 

  • Lemoine, M. - 1911 - Structure anatomique des Melobesiées. App. à la class. Ann. Inst. Oceanogr. 2, 2: 1–213.

    Google Scholar 

  • Lemoine, M. - 1923 - Répartition des algues calcaires dans la Manche occidentale, d'apres les draguages du “Pourquoi-Pas.” Bull. Mus. Hist. nat. 1923, 6: 462–469.

    Google Scholar 

  • — 1931a - Les algues Melobesiées de la région de St. Servan. Bull. Lab. Mar. St. Servan 7: 21 pp.

  • Lemoine, M. - 1931b - In: Otto Schmidt, Die marine Vegetation der Azoren. Bibl. Bot. Stuttgart 1931: 61–64.

  • Lund, S. - 1959 - The marine algae of east Greenland I., Taxonomic Part. Meddel. om Gronl. 156, 1: 247 pp.

  • Masaki, T. & Tokida, J. - 1961 - Studies on the Melobesioideae of Japan, V. Bull. Fac. Fish., Hokkaido Univ. 12, 3: 161–165.

    Google Scholar 

  • Mazza, A. - 1922 - Saggio di Algologia Oceanica. III, Corall. pp. 1075–1257. Padua.

    Google Scholar 

  • Rosanoff, S. - 1866 - Recherches anatomiques sur les Melobesiées. Mem. Soc. imp. Sci. nat. Math. Cherbourg 12: 1–112.

    Google Scholar 

  • Rosenvinge, L. K. - 1899 - Deux memoires Sur les algues marines du Groenland. Meddel. Gronl. 20: 1–125.

    Google Scholar 

  • Rosenvinge, L. K. - 1910 - On the marine algae from Northeast Greenland. Meddel. Gronl. 43: 93–133.

    Google Scholar 

  • Rosenvinge, L. K. - 1917 - The marine algae of Denmark. Part 2. Rhodophyceae 2 (Cryptonemiales). D. kongl. Danske Vid. Selsk. Skr., Nat. og Math., 7 Raekke VII 2: 155–283.

    Google Scholar 

  • — 1926 - Marine algae collected by Dr. H. G. Simmons, wnd. Norw. Arct. Exp., 1898–1902. Rep. of 2nd. Norw. Arctic Exp. 1898–1902, 37: 40 pp.

  • Rosenvinge, L. K. - 1935 - The distribution of the Rhodophyceae in the Danish waters. D. kongl. Danske Uid. Selsk. Skr., Nat. og. Math., 9 Raekke VI, 2: 1–43.

    Google Scholar 

  • Solms-Laubach, G. - 1881 - Die Corallineen Algen des Golfes von Neapel. Fauna und Flora des Golf. v. Neapel IV: 62 pp.

  • Stromfelt, H. F. G. - 1886 - Om algvegetationen vid Islands Kuster. Göteborgs kngl. Vet. och Vitt. Samh. Handl., Ny. tid. 21, 2, 21: 89 pp.

  • Suneson, S. - 1943 - The structure, life-history and taxonomy of the Swedish Corallinaceae. Lunds Univ. Arsskr., N.F., Avd. 2, 39, 9: 66 pp.

  • Taylor, W. R. - 1957 - Marine Algae of the Northeastern Coast of North America. 427 pp., 60 pls., Ann Arbor.

  • Zinova, A. D. - 1955 - Rhodophyceae of Northern Seas in the U.S.S.R. (In Russian). 219 pp. Moscow.

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Division of Paleobotany, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C

    Walter H. Adey

Authors
  1. Walter H. Adey
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Additional information

The necessary field work for this study was made possible by the generous support of: The American Petroleum Institute, The Geological Society of America and the ONR (through the Department of Geology and Geophysics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Adey, W.H. The genera Lithothamnium, Leptophytum (nov. gen.) and Phymatolithon in the Gulf of Maine. Hydrobiologia 28, 321–370 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00130389

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00130389

Keywords

Search

Navigation