Chaetomorpha antennina

Chile central, Juan Fernandez, Isla de Pascua, Peru

Chaetomorpha antennina (Bory de Saint-Vincent) Kützing

Conferva antennina Bory de Saint-Vincent, 1804a:381; Bory de Saint-Vincent, 1804b:161.

Chaetomorpha antennina (Bory de Saint-Vincent) Kützing, 1847:166; Kützing, 1849:379; Collins, 1909b:324; Howe, 1914:37; Setchell and Gardner, 1920b:203; Setchell and Gardner, 1924a:713; Setchell and Gardner, 1930:136; Dawson, 1944:207; Dawson, 1945b:59; Taylor, 1945:52; Dawson, 1949:245, 251; Dawson, 1950c:149, figs. 6, 7; Dawson, 1951:52; Dawson, 1954a:3; Dawson, 1959a:9, 12; Dawson, 1959c:4; Dawson and Beaudette, 1959:18, 20; Dawson, 1961b:376; Dawson, 1961c:403, pl. 1: figs 7, 8; Dawson, 1962b:172, fig. 8 (right); Huerta-Múzquiz and Tirado-Lizárraga, 1970:126; Norris, 1973:3, 19; Abbott and Hollenberg, 1976:101, fig. 58; Huerta-Múzquiz, 1978:338–340; Stewart and Stewart, 1984:140; Huerta-Múzquiz and Mendoza-González, 1985:42; Mendoza-González and Mateo-Cid, 1985:22; Mendoza-González and Mateo-Cid, 1986:419; Salcedo-Martínez et al., 1988:82; Sánchez-Rodríguez et al., 1989:39; Dreckmann et al., 1990:24, 37; Mateo-Cid and Mendoza-González, 1991:27; Mendoza-González and Mateo-Cid, 1992:24; Mateo-Cid and Mendoza-González, 1992:24; González-González, 1993:443; Stout and Dreckmann, 1993:4; Servière-Zaragoza et al., 1993:482; Mateo-Cid and Mendoza-González, 1994a:52; Mateo-Cid and Mendoza-González, 1994b:44; León-Tejera and González-González, 1994:493; Mendoza-González et al., 1994:112; González-González et al., 1996:278; Silva et al., 1996b:229, 234; Mendoza-González and Mateo-Cid, 1996:75, 87, pl. 25, figs. 109, 110; Pacheco-Ruíz and Zertuche-González, 1996a:432; León-Alvarez et al., 1997:397; Galindo-Villegas et al., 1997:4; Mateo-Cid and Mendoza-González, 1997:56; Servière-Zaragoza et al., 1998:169, 176, 178; Bucio-Pacheco and Dreckmann, 1998:44; Aguila-Ramírez et al., 1998:511; Yoshida, 1998:54; Mendoza-González and Mateo-Cid, 1998:25, 27; Mendoza-González et al., 1999:61; León-Tejera and González-González, 2000:237; Mateo-Cid et al., 2000a:69; Carballo et al., 2002:752; Abbott and Huisman, 2004:66, fig. 18A–D; Pedroche et al., 2005:35–36; Hernández-Herrera et al., 2005:146; Dreckmann et al., 2006:154; Servière-Zaragoza et al., 2007:7; Pacheco-Ruíz et al., 2008:201.

Conferva media C. Agardh, 1824:100.

Cladophora media (C. Agardh) Kützing, 1849:380; Huerta-Múzquiz and Tirado-Lizárraga, 1970:120, 131, 135; Chávez B., 1972:268; Pedroche and González-González, 1981:64.

Cladophora pacifica Kützing, 1849:379 (see Collins 1909b:324; Howe, 1914:37).

Algae erect, tufted or clumped, of relatively stiff, uniseriate filaments, up to 10 cm tall, attached by an elongated basal cell with long slender rhizoids from proximal end. Upper cells 400–900 µm in diameter, 1–4 times as long as wide; basal cell of similar width but much longer, 5–9 mm in length. Basal cell usually with annular constrictions.

Fertile cells swollen and larger than vegetative cells.

HABITAT. On rocks, usually in shaded areas; high to low intertidal.

DISTRIBUTION. Gulf of California: Bahía de Los Ángeles to Bahía San Carlos; Isla San Ildefonso; Cabeza Ballena to Cabo Pulmo. Pacific coast: southern California to Chiapas; Isla San Benedicto (Islas Revillagigedo); Clipperton Island; El Salvador; Panamá; Galápagos Islands; Ecuador; Peru; Chile; Hawaiian Islands; China; Japan.

TYPE LOCALITY. Réunion Island (Bourbon Is.), Mascarene Islands, Indian Ocean.

Chaetomorpha antennina is a species of green algae of the family Cladophoraceae.

Chaetomorpha antennina est une espèce d'algues vertes marines de la famille des Cladophoraceae. Elle forme des touffes de filaments bien droits. Elle vit dans des eaux côtières sous climat tropical ou subtropical.