Journal article
Codium pulvinatum (Bryopsidales, Chlorophyta), a new species from the Arabian Sea, recently introduced into the Mediterranean Sea
R Hoffman, MJ Wynne, T Schils, J Lopez-Bautista, H Verbruggen
Phycologia | INT PHYCOLOGICAL SOC | Published : 2018
DOI: 10.2216/17-74.1
Abstract
Codium pulvinatum sp. nov. (Bryopsidales, Chlorophyta) is described from the southern shores of Oman and from the Mediterranean shore of Israel. The new species has a pulvinate to mamillate–globose habit and long narrow utricles. Molecular data from the rbcL gene show that the species is distinct from closely related species, and concatenated rbcL and rps3–rpl16 sequence data show that it is not closely related to other species with similar external morphologies. The recent discovery of well-established populations of C. pulvinatum along the central Mediterranean coast of Israel suggests that it is a new Lessepsian migrant into the Mediterranean Sea. The ecology and invasion success of the g..
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Funding Acknowledgements
RH is a VATAT-supported post-doctoral fellow at the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History and National Research, Tel Aviv University, Israel. MJW acknowledges funding from a grant to Hunting Technical Services, Ltd., U.K. from 'Darwin Initiative for the Survival of Species', administered by the British Government's Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (DETR), which supported collecting trips in 1999, 2000 and 2001, in collaboration with the Natural History Museum, Oman, the University of Michigan Herbarium, and the Natural History Museum, U.K. HV thanks Vanessa Rossetto Marcelino for carrying out molecular lab work. Funding was provided by the Australian Biological Resources Study (RFL213-08) and the Australian Research Foundation (FT110100585). TS gratefully acknowledges the financial support provided by the Flemish Fund for Scientific Research (project 3G014205) as well as the logistic and research support from Ghent University and the University of Guam. Finally, we thank the editor-in-chief Prof. Garbary and two anonymous reviewers for their useful comments on an earlier version of the manuscript.