Turbinaria Lamouroux

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 : 3009

Turbinaria Lamouroux

Turbinaria ornata (Turner) J. Agardh, 1848: 266

References: Taylor, 1964: 483–485, pl. 3, figures 1–6 ; Jaasund, 1976: 53, figure 105; Tseng, 1984: 242, pl. 122, figure 1 ; Lewmanomont and Ogawa, 1995: 87; Calumpong and Meñez, 1996: 137, unnumbered figure; Cribb, 1996: 63, figure p. 62; Trono, 1997: 155, figure 100; Payri et al., 2000: 148, figure p. 149; Skelton and South, 2002: 160, figure 19E ; Littler and Littler, 2003: 186, bottom figure p. 187.

Type locality. Not specified .

Voucher. HEC 14637, 18 September 2001, western side of Cotton Bay (s.s. 13).

Ecology. Epilithic in mid- to low intertidal rock pools.

Distribution. Aldabra Islands, Andaman Islands, Australia, Burma, Chagos Archipelago, Christmas Islands, Comores, Diego Garcia Atoll, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Laccadives, Madagascar, Malaysia, Maldives, Mauritius ( Børgesen, 1941: 65–66), Mozambique, Nicobar Islands, Réunion ( Jadin, 1935: 159), Rodrigues ( Dickie, 1877a: 6), Seychelles, Singapore, Somalia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Thailand.

Figures

FIG. 1. Sampling stations. See table 1 for a list of the stations and their GPS coordinates. Map redrawn from Wells (1988). The outer grey line represents the fringing reef.

FIGS 2–6. Chlorophyta. (2) Microdictyon tenuius, detail of branching and anastomosing patterns (HEC 14849). (3) Bryopsis pennata var. pennata, branchlets of last order contiguous and in a single plane (HEC 14796 p.p.). (4) Bryopsis pennata var. leprieurii, branchlets of last order interrupted and in a single plane (HEC 14757).(5) Bryopsis pennata var. secunda, branchlets of last order curved in one direction (HEC 14796 p.p.). (6) Chamaedoris delphinii (HEC 14617). Scale bars: 250 mm (2); 5 mm (3–5); 1 cm (6).

FIGS 19–24. Chlorophyta. (19) Caulerpa nummularia, proliferating from primary, peltate assimilator (HEC 14609 p.p.). (20) Rhipidosiphon javensis (HEC 14763). (21) Udotea sp. (HEC 14759). (22–24) Udotea palmetta (HEC 14817): (22) general morphology of large, fertile specimen; (23) gametangia growing from the blade surface; (24) gametangia growing from the blade margin. Scale bars: 2 mm (19, 20); 1 cm (21, 22); 1 mm (23); 500 mm (24).