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A Comment on Gracilaria verrucosa (Huds.) Papenf. (Rhodophyta: Gigartinales)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

C. J. Bird
Affiliation:
Atlantic Research Laboratory, National Research Council of Canada, 1411 Oxford Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, B3H 3Z1
J. P. van der Meer
Affiliation:
Atlantic Research Laboratory, National Research Council of Canada, 1411 Oxford Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, B3H 3Z1
J. McLachlan
Affiliation:
Atlantic Research Laboratory, National Research Council of Canada, 1411 Oxford Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, B3H 3Z1

Extract

The life histories of Gracilaria verrucosa from England and from Vancouver Island, Canada, were completed in culture. Although representatives of the two populations were morphologically and anatomically indistinguishable, their chromosome numbers differed markedly, being n = 32 for British material and n = 24 for western Canadian plants. It is propounded that the Vancouver Island plants are not authentic G. verrucosa and, moreover, that this name may have been applied erroneously in other reports of the species from localities distant from the British Isles (type locality).

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1982

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