Seaweeds of the South African South Coast

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Order Cladophorales

Family Cladophoraceae

Chaetomorpha antennina (Bory de Saint-Vincent) Kützing 1847: 166

Plants leaf-green to dark green, a few to 8 cm tall, in brush-like tufts, attached by stoloniferous rhizoids. Individual filaments straight, rather rigid, unbranched, septate. Basal cells characteristically elongated, up to 7.5 mm long, thick-walled, with annulations near base. Cells 400-750 µm in diameter, 700-1000 µm long, becoming broader to barrel-shaped distally. Distal cells often losing contents via spore release, becoming transparent.

Collections, ecology and regional distribution

Recorded from Hluleka to northern Kwazulu-Natal (45-58). Epilithic in the eulittoral and shallow sublittoral zones.

World distribution: widespread in the temperate and tropical Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans (Guiry & Guiry 2012).

Type locality: Réunion (Silva et al. 1996).

 

Chaetomorpha antennina - empty cell walls where spores released

 

References:

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

Kützing, F.T. (1847). Diagnosen und Bemerkungen zu neuen oder kritischen Algen. Botanische Zeitung 5: 1-5, 22-25, 33-38, 52-55, 164-167, 177-180, 193-198, 219-223.

Silva, P.C., Basson, P.W. & Moe, R.L. (1996). Catalogue of the benthic marine algae of the Indian Ocean. University of California Publications in Botany 79: 1-1259.

 

Cite this record as:

Anderson RJ, Stegenga H, Bolton JJ. 2016. Seaweeds of the South African South Coast.
World Wide Web electronic publication, University of Cape Town, http://southafrseaweeds.uct.ac.za; Accessed on 19 December 2024.