Caulerpa falcifolia Harvey and Bailey (Chlorophyta) from Sibutu Island, Tawi-Tawi, a new record for the marine algal flora of the Philippines
Keywords:
green algae, morphology, seaweed, taxonomyAbstract
The marine flora of the Philippines is among the most diverse in the Indo-West Pacific region. Among the most prominent and speciose genera is Caulerpa, currently represented by about 50 species, varieties and forms in the country. A beautiful, distinctive species, Caulerpa falcifolia Harvey and Bailey, originally described from Tonga, is herein reported as a new additional member to the growing number of Caulerpa species recorded from the Philippines. Samples were collected from the littoral zone off Sibutu Island in the province of Tawi-Tawi and are herein described, illustrated and compared with morphologically similar species.
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Belton, G.S., Prud’homme van Reine, W.F., Huisman, J.M., Draisma, S.G.A. and Gurgel, C.F.D. 2014. Resolving phenotypic plasticity and species designation in the morphologically challenging Caulerpa racemosa-peltata complex (Caulerpaceae, Chlorophyta). Journal of Phycology, 50: 32–54.
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Calvert, H.E. 1976. Culture studies on some Florida species of Caulerpa: Morphological responses to reduced illumination. British Phycological Journal, 11: 203-214.
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Cordero, P.A. 1980. Taxonomy and distribution of Philippine useful seaweeds. National Research Council of the Philippines Bulletin, 81: 1-78.
Draisma, S.G.A., Prud’homme van Reine, W.F.P., Sauvage, T., Belton, G.S., Gurgel, C.F.D., Lim, P.E. and Phang, S.M. 2014. A re-assessment of the infra-generic classification of the genus Caulerpa (Caulerpaceae, Chlorophyta) inferred from a time-calibrated molecular phylogeny. Journal of Phycology, 50: 1020-1034.
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Harvey, W.H. and Bailey, J.W. 1851. [Dr. Gould presented, in behalf of Professors W.H. Harvey of Trinity College, Dublin, and J.W. Bailey of West Point, descriptions of seventeen new species of Algae collected by the United States Exploring Expedition.]. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, 3: 370-373.
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Horstmann, U. 1978. Nearshore macroalgae culture in tropical developing countries. The Philippine Scientist, 15: 67-75.
Horstmann, U. 1983. Cultivation of the green alga, Caulerpa racemosa, in tropical waters and some aspects of its physiological ecology. Aquaculture, 32: 361-371.
Kazi, M.A., Reddy, C.R.K. and Jha, B. 2013. Molecular phylogeny and barcoding of Caulerpa (Bryopsidales) based on the tufa, rbcL, 18S rDNA and ITS rDNA genes. PLoS ONE, 8(12): E82438.
Lewis, J.A. 1987. Checklist and bibliography of benthic marine macroalgae recorded from northern Australia III. Chlorophyta. Department of Defense. Defense Science and Technology Organisation. Materials Research Laboratories, Melbourne, Victoria, Report MRL-R-1063, 56 pp
Meñez, E.G. and Calumpong, H.P. 1982. The genus Caulerpa from Central Visayas, Philippines. Smithsonian Contributions to Marine Sciences, 17: 1-32.
Olsen, J.L., Valero, M., Meusnier, S., Boele-Bos, S. and Stam, W.T. 1998. Mediterranean Caulerpa taxifolia and C. mexicana (Chlorophyta) are not conspecific. Journal of Phycology, 34: 850-856.
Payri, C. 2007. Revised checklist of marine algae (Chlorophyta, Rhodophyta and Ochrophyta) and seagrasses (marine angiosperms) of New Caledonia. In: Payri, C. and Richer de Forges, B. (Eds) Compendium of Marine Species from New Caledonia, 2nd ed., Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Noumea, 95-112.
Price, I.R. 2011. A taxonomic revision of the marine green algal genera Caulerpa and Caulerpella (Chlorophyta, Caulerpaceae) in northern (tropical and subtropical) Australia. Australian Systematic Botany, 24: 137–213
Silva, P.C., Meñez, E.G. and Moe, R.L. 1987. Catalog of the benthic marine algae of the Philippines. Smithsonian Contributions to Marine Sciences, 27: 1-179.
Svedelius, N. 1906. Reports on the marine algae of Ceylon. No. 1. Ecological and systematic studies of the Ceylon species of Caulerpa. Ceylon Marine Biological Laboratory Reports, 2: 81-144.
Taylor, W.R. 1960. Marine Algae of the Eastern Tropical and Subtropical Coasts of the Americas. The University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 870 pp.
Taylor, W.R. 1975. A noteworthy variant Caulerpa. Contributions from the University of Michigan Herbarium, 11: 77-79.
Thiers, B. [continuously updated]. Index Herbariorum: A global directory of public herbaria and associated staff. New York Botanical Garden's Virtual Herbarium. Available from: http:// sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/, (24 July 2018).
Trono, G.C. Jr. 1997. Field Guide & Atlas of the Seaweed Resources of the Philippines. Bookmark, Makati City, 301 pp.
Trono, G.C. Jr. 2004. Field Guide & Atlas of the Seaweed Resources of the Philippines, Volume 2. Bureau of Agricultural Research and Marine Environment and Resources Foundation, Inc., Quezon City, 261 pp.
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TAHIL, A.A. and LIAO, L.M. 2019. Caulerpa falcifolia Harvey and Bailey (Chlorophyta) from Sibutu Island, Tawi-Tawi, a new record for the marine algal flora of the Philippines. Tropical Natural History. 19, 1 (Mar. 2019), 1–7.
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