University Herbarium, UC Berkeley: Indian Ocean Catalogue

IOC entry for Catenella caespitosa

CAULACANTHACEAE

Note: This family is circumscribed herein in accordance with P. Gabrielson (1980) and P. Gabrielson & Hommersand (1982: 45).

Catenella Greville, nom. cons.

Catenella caespitosa (Withering) L. Irvine

Ulva caespitosa Withering, 1776: 735 (type locality: Anglesey, Wales).

Catenella caespitosa (Withering) L. Irvine, 1976: 590.—Coppejans & Gallin, 1989: 52, tables 4, 7.— Shameel & J. Tanaka, 1992: 49.— Coppejans & De Schryver, 1993: 381.

Taxonomic synonyms:

Fucus repens Lightfoot, 1777: 961–962 (type locality: Musselburgh, Midlothian, Scotland).

Catenella repens (Lightfoot) Batters, 1902: 69.—S. Dixit, 1966: 15.— Sreekumaran et al., 1969: tables 4, 5.— V. Krishnamurthy & H. Joshi, 1970: 22.— Islam, 1974a: 19, pl. 5: figs. 5–8, photomicrograph A2.— Islam, 1974b: 88.— V. Krishnamurthy & Subbaramaiah, 1974: 265.— Islam, 1976: 56, pl. 52: figs. 301–304.— Gogate, Shah, & Unni, 1978: table 1.— Salam & Khan, 1979a: 43.— Salam & Khan, 1979b: 99, pl. I: figs. 1, 2.— Untawale, Dhargalkar, & Agadi, 1983: [33].— Chennubhotla, Kaliaperumal, & Kalimuthu, 1987a: 108–109.

Fucus opuntia Goodenough & Woodward, 1797: 107, 219–220 (type locality: Tenby, Pembroke, Wales).

Catenella opuntia (Goodenough & Woodward) Greville, 1830: lxiii.—G. Martens, 1870c: 260.— G. Martens, 1871a: 172.— Schmitz, 1895a: 139.— Schmitz, 1895b: 27.— Schröder, 1912: 300.— Post, 1936: 73–78.— Post, 1939b: 34–35.— P. Anand, 1943b: 46–47, fig. 32.— Biswas, 1943: 112.— Post, 1957a: 107–111.— Isaac, 1958: 18, 20, 21.— Isaac & Chamberlain, 1958: 149, fig. 19.— Pocock, 1958: 26.— Post, 1959: 503.— Plante, 1965: 236.— Salim, 1965: 196.— Post, 1966: 147–149.— S. Dixit, 1968: 20.— Isaac, 1968: 4.— W. Isaac & F. Isaac, 1968: 25.— Post, 1968a: 108, fig. 9.— Post, 1968b: 300–301, 306 ff.— Lawson, 1969: 332, 336.— Hartnoll, 1976: 8.— Jaasund, 1977c: 422.— Brown & Jarman, 1978: 1254.— Knutzen & Jaasund, 1979: 3.— Lawson, 1980: 36.— Moorjani, 1980b: 458, fig. 2.— Oyieke & Ruwa, 1987: 82, 84, 92.

INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: Bangladesh, India, Kenya, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mozambique, Pakistan, Singapore, Tanzania, Thailand.

Note: The synonymy results from proposals made by Batters (1902: 69) and L. Irvine (1976: 590).