Chondria armata (Kützing) Okamura

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Subkingdom Biliphyta
Phylum Rhodophyta
Subphylum Eurhodophytina
Class Florideophyceae
Subclass Rhodymeniophycidae
Order Ceramiales
Family Rhodomelaceae
Tribe Chondrieae
Genus Chondria

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Dampier Archipelago. 25 May 2011. John Huisman. © John Huisman (j.huisman@murdoch.edu.au).

Tanzania. Katrin Østerlund. © Katrin Oesterlund (Katrin.Osterlund@uadm.uu.se). From: Oliveira, E., Österlund, K. & Mtolera, M.S.P. (2005). Marine Plants of Tanzania. A field guide to the seaweeds and seagrasses. pp. 267, Numerous coloured illustrations and line drawings. Stockholm: Botany Department, Stockholm University.

South Africa. Robert Anderson. © Robert Anderson (Robert.Anderson@uct.ac.za).

© ABC Taxa (eric.coppejans@ugent.be). From: Coppejans, E., Leliaert, F., Dargent, O., Gunasekara, R., & De Clerck, O. (2009). Sri Lankan Seaweeds Methodologies and field guide to the dominant species. Vol. 6 pp. 1-265.: ABC Taxa..

KwaZulu-Natal. Frederic Leliaert. © Frederik Leliaert (Frederik.Leliaert@ugent.be). From: De Clerck, O., Bolton, J.J., Anderson, R.J. & Coppejans, E. (2005). Guide to the seaweeds of KwaZulu-Natal. Scripta Botanica Belgica 33: 1-294. Purchase information.

South Africa. Robert Anderson. © Robert Anderson (Robert.Anderson@uct.ac.za).

Bundegi Reef, Western Australia.. John Huisman. © John Huisman (j.huisman@murdoch.edu.au). From: Huisman, J.M. (2000). Marine Plants of Australia. University of Western Australia Press, Nedlands, Western Australia..

Colaconema dasyae (F.S.Collins) Stegenga, I.Mol, Prud'homme van Reine & Lokhorst

Chondria armata (Kützing) Okamura Dampier Archipelago

Publication details
Chondria armata (Kützing) Okamura 1907: 69, pl. XVI: figs 9-19

Original publication: Okamura, K. (1907). Icones of Japanese Algae. Vol. I pp. 65-92, pls XVI-XX. Tokyo: The Author.

Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Chondria is Chondria tenuissima (Withering) C.Agardh.

Status of name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.

Basionym
Lophura armata Kützing

Type information
Type locality: Wagap, New Caledonia (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996: 479). Holotype: Vieillard; 1863; L 940,284-299 (barcode L 0055801) (Millar & Prud'homme van Reine 2005: 543). Notes: Holotype: Vieillard # 2089. Isotypes on L 040,284-300. Yoshida (1998: 1014) cites the lectotype (L 940.284.299).

Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), equipped, armed (Stearn 1973).

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Lophura armata Kützing 1866

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Rhodomela crassicaulis Harvey ex Svedelius 1906
Chondria armata var. plumaris Børgesen 1932

General environment
This is a marine species.

Distribution by country

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Lophura armata Kützing)
Pacific Islands: New Caledonia (Millar & Prud'homme van Reine 2005).

(as Chondria armata (Kützing) Okamura)
Africa: Kenya (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Bolton, Oyieke & Gwanda 2007), Mauritius (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Mozambique (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), South Africa (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, De Clerck, Tronchin & Schils 2005), Tanzania (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Oliveira, Österlund & Mtolera 2005).

Indian Ocean Islands: Laccadive Islands (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996).

South-west Asia: India (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Sahoo et al. 2001), Sri Lanka (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Coppejans et al. 2009).

Asia: China (Tseng 1984), Japan (Yoshida, Nakajima & Nakata 1990, Yoshida 1998), Taiwan (Huang 2000, Anon. 2012).

South-east Asia: Indonesia (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Myanmar (Burma) (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Philippines (Silva, Meñez & Moe 1987, Kraft et al. 1999), Vietnam (Tsutsui et al. 2005).

Australia and New Zealand: Lord Howe Island (Millar & Kraft 1993, Huisman 2000), New South Wales (Millar & Kraft 1993, Huisman 2000), Papua New Guinea (Littler & Littler 2003), Queensland (Lewis 1984, Cribb 1996, Phillips 1997, Phillips 2002, Bostock & Holland 2010), Western Australia (Huisman 2000, Huisman & Borowitzka 2003).

Pacific Islands: Fiji (N'Yeurt, South & Keats 1996, South & Skelton 2003), Solomon Islands (Womersley & Bailey 1970).

SAG Cultures

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 27 January 1998 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 08 October 2010 by M.D. Guiry

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References
(Please note: only references with the binomials in the title are included. The information is from the Literature database.)

Govenkar, M.B. & Wahidulla, S. (1999). Studies on the fatty acids of the red alga Chondria armata (Kütz.) Okamura. Botanica Marina 42: 3-5, 1 table.
Govenkar, M.B. & Wahidulla, S. (2000). Free sterols of the red alga Chondria armata (Kütz) Okamura. Botanica Marina 43: 201-204, 2 tables.
Maeda, M., Kodama, T., Tanaka, T., Yoshizumi, H., Takemoto, T., Nomoto, K. & Fujita, T. (1986). Structures of isodomoic acids, A, B and C, novel insecticidal amino acids from the red alga Chondria armata. Chem. Pharmaceut. Bull. 34: 4892-4895.
Takemoto, T. & Daigo, K. (1958). Constituents of Chondria armata and their pharmacological effects. Chem. Pharmaceut. Bull. 6: 578-580.
Takemoto, T., Daigo, K., Kondo, Y. & Kondo, K. (1966). Studies on the constituents of Chondria armata. VIII. On the structure of domoic acid. Yakugaku Zasshi 86: 874-877.
Thivy, F. & Sreenivasa Rao, P. (1964). On Chondria armata (Kütz.) Okamura var. plumaris Boergesen from Gujarat. Phykos 2: 15-18, 18 figs, Plate II.
Zaman, L., Arawaka, O., Shimosu, A., Onoue, Y., Nishio, S., Shida, Y.& Noguchi, T. (1997). Two new isomers of domoic acid from a red alga, Chondria armata. Toxicon 35: 205-212.

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Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2012. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org; searched on 30 March 2012.

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