The Red Alga Genus Rhodospora (Bangiophycidae, Rhodophyta): First Report from North America
Johansen JR, Fucikova K, Fitzpatrick MH, Lowe RL. 2005. The Red Alga Genus Rhodospora (Bangiophycidae, Rhodophyta): First Report from North America. Journal of Phycology. 41(6):1281-1283
Article on the discovery of several populations of the red alga Rhodospora sordida Geitler in samples from seep walls in Tennessee. This species is thought to be an extremly rare alga. It was reported previously only on seep walls in Europe. The last published reports of the alga were made in the mid-1970s. A culture of the alga was was made from one other site in North America (a rock wall in Arkansas) in 1977, but no publication accompanied the find. Since discovering the alga in summer 2004, a second population was found in a seep wall in northeast Ohio. The authors suspect the species has a broader distribution than previously thought and has been overlooked and misidentified in previous studies.
- Type
- Journal Article
- Authors
- Johansen, Jeffery; Fucikova, Karolina; Fitzpatrick, Margaret; Lowe, Rex
- Units
- GRSM
- Keywords
- alga, All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory, ATBI, GRSM-00072, GRSM-00305, Rhodospora, subaerial