Lobophora sp. indet.

Fassbender, Nico, Stefanoudis, Paris V, Filander, Zoleka Nontlantla, Gendron, Gilberte, Mah, Christopher L, Mattio, Lydiane, Mortimer, Jeanne A, Moura, Carlos J, Samaai, Toufiek, Samimi-Namin, Kaveh, Wagner, Daniel, Walton, Rowana & Woodall, Lucy C, 2021, Reef benthos of Seychelles - A field guide, Biodiversity Data Journal 9, pp. 65970-65970 : 65970

Lobophora sp. indet.

Materials

Type status: Other material. Taxon: scientificName: Lobophora; kingdom: Plantae; phylum: Ochrophyta; class: Phaeophyceae; order: Dictyotales; family: Dictyotaceae; genus: Lobophora; scientificNameAuthorship: Agardh, 1894; Location: waterBody: Indian Ocean; country: Seychelles; locality: Aldabra W 1, Astove W 1, Alphonse N 1, D'Arros N 1 ; minimumDepthInMeters: 10 m; maximumDepthInMeters: 72 m; locationRemarks: First Descent : Seychelles Expedition ; Identification : identifiedBy: Nico Fassbender , Lydiane Mattio , Jeanne Mortimer , Paris Stefanoudis ; dateIdentified: 2019, 2020; identificationRemarks: identified only from imagery; Event : samplingProtocol: Submersible OR Remotely Operated Vehicle OR SCUBA; Record Level: basisOfRecord: Human observation

Notes

Brown fan-shaped blade with a firm texture. The creeping, ascendant or erect fonds can range from foliose to rounded and are attached to the substratum by rhizoids. Previously thought to be represented by only one species ( Lobophora variegata ), genetics ( Vieira et al. 2016) have recently revealed a much wider species diversity than conventional methods of identification, based on macromorphological characters alone (Fig. 10).