Dictyota ceylanica Kützing, 1859: 11

Coppejans, Eric, Leliaert, Frederik, Verbruggen, Heroen, de Clerck, Olivier, Schils, Tom, de Vriese, Thomas & Marie, Daniel, 2004, The marine green and brown algae of Rodrigues (Mauritius, Indian Ocean), Journal of Natural History 38 (23), pp. 2959-3020 : 3000-3001

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https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222930410001695024

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scientific name

Dictyota ceylanica Kützing, 1859: 11
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* Dictyota ceylanica Kützing, 1859: 11 , pl. 25, figure 1 View FIG

References: Cribb, 1954: 21, pl. 3, figure 9 View FIGS (~ D. divaricata ); Jaasund, 1970: 76–77, figures 2E, 3E, F, I View FIGS (~ D. divaricata Lamouroux and D. ceylanica ); Tseng, 1984: 192, pl. 97, figure 4 View FIGS (~ D. divaricata ); Coppejans et al., 1995b: figures 19, 21 View FIGS (~ D. divaricata and ~ D. cf. dichotoma (Hudson) Lamouroux var. intricata (C. Agardh) Greville ); De Clerck and Coppejans, 1997: 413–414; De Clerck, 2003: 52–57, figures 15, 16 View FIGS ; Littler and Littler, 2003: 168, top figure p. 169.

Type locality. Sri Lanka .

Voucher. HEC 14745 (zF), 22 September 2001, Grand Baie (s.s. 11) .

Ecology. Epilithic in the shallow subtidal zone.

Distribution. Australia, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Mauritius ( De Clerck, 2003: 52), Pakistan, Rodrigues (this paper), Seychelles, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Yemen.

* Dictyota friabilis Setchell, 1926: 91–92 , pl. 13, figures 4–7 View FIGS View FIGS , pl. 20, figure 1 View FIG

References: Dawson, 1954: 401, figure 16A, B View FIGS ; Womersley and Bailey, 1970: 290–291; Magruder and Hunt, 1979: 43, unnumbered pl.; Tseng, 1984: 194, pl. 98, figure 1 View FIG ; Coppejans et al., 1995b: figure 16 View FIGS (as D. sp. 4), Trono, 1997: 109, figure 75; De Clerck and Coppejans, 1997: 417; Payri et al., 2000: 132,

figure p. 133; De Clerck, 2003: 89–93, figures 28, 29 View FIGS ; Littler and Littler, 2003: 168, middle figure p. 169.

Type locality. Tafaa Point, Tahiti.

Vouchers. HEC 14808, 26 September 2001, Chaland (s.s. 8) ; HEC 14879, 1 October 2001, Totor (s.s. 9) .

Ecology. Epilithic between branches of acroporid corals at 15 m depth.

Distribution. Aldabra Islands, Bangladesh, Diego Garcia Atoll, Egypt, Kenya, Maldives, Malaysia, Mauritius ( De Clerck, 2003: 89), Réunion ( De Clerck, 2003: 89), Rodrigues (this paper), Saudi Arabia, Seychelles, Sri Lanka, Tanzania.

Unchecked data from literature

Dictyota dichotoma (Hudson) Lamouroux, 1809a: 42

Mentioned by Dickie (1877a) but not among our recent collection.

According to De Clerck (2003), this species does not occur in the tropical part of the Indian Ocean. Specimens identified as such belong to a variety of species, most commonly D. ciliolata Sonder ex Kützing and D. ceylanica Kützing.

Kingdom

Chromista

Phylum

Ochrophyta

Class

Phaeophyceae

Order

Dictyotales

Family

Dictyotaceae

Genus

Dictyota

Loc

Dictyota ceylanica Kützing, 1859: 11

Coppejans, Eric, Leliaert, Frederik, Verbruggen, Heroen, de Clerck, Olivier, Schils, Tom, de Vriese, Thomas & Marie, Daniel 2004
2004
Loc

Dictyota friabilis

SETCHELL, W. A. 1926: 92
1926
Loc

Dictyota ceylanica Kützing, 1859: 11

KUTZING, F. T. 1859: 11
1859
Loc

Dictyota dichotoma (Hudson)

LAMOUROUX, J. V. F. 1809: 42
1809
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