Chaetomorpha Kützing, 1845

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 : 2968-2969

Chaetomorpha Kützing

* Chaetomorpha brachygona Harvey, 1858: 87–88 , pl. XLVI A References: Taylor, 1928: 60; Sartoni, 1992: 297–299, figure 4D .

Syntype localities. Key West , Florida, USA ; mouth of Rio Bravo , border of Mexico and Texas, USA .

Vouchers. HEC 14782 (zF), 25 September 2001, Passe Grand Bassin (s.s. 3) ; HEC 14862, 30 September 2001, south-western part of the lagoon (s.s. 27) .

Ecology. Intertidal and infralittoral fringe, forming loose-lying tufts of intricated filaments mixed with other filamentous algae.

Distribution. Bangladesh, Diego Garcia Atoll, India, Indonesia (Bali), Kenya,

Maldives (Addu Atoll), Rodrigues (this paper), Somalia, Sri Lanka.

Figures

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).