Marine Benthic Algae of the Russian coasts of Bering Sea

O.N. Selivanova
TABLE 1

List of marine algae of the western coasts of the Bering Sea (from Ozernoi Gulf to Dezhnev Bay, including Karaginskii Island)

Higher taxa (orders within divisions) are arranged in the table according to their systematic position, with families within the orders, genera within the familes and species within the genera given in alphabetic order. A dash in the column "Depths" means the absence of data.
Names are included in the table with corrections, where it is possible, in conformity with modern taxonomic data. The original information of the other authors in the case I do not accept their interpretation of the species is given in the column ‘Outdated, misapplied or incorrect species name'.
Twenty species new for the flora of the area studied are marked with an asterisk (*) in the table in a gray-shaded row. Species among those 20 that are recorded from the Far Eastern seas of Russia for the first time are marked by double asterisks (**) in a green (or darker) shaded row. The new species of Phycodrys is marked with a triple asterisk and shaded pink.

Notes

1. It is quite possible that this species is conspecific with Enteromorpha muscoides (Clemente y Rubio) Cremades, however I retain the old name until I have opportunity to examine type specimens.
2. I identified this species as Ulvaria splendens Rupr., not as U. obscura (Kütz.) Gayral var. blytii (Aresch.) Bliding in accordance with the interpretation of Vinogradova (1979), whose viewpoint on systematics of Chlorophyta dominates in Russian literature.
3. I preferred the generic name Spongomorpha versus Acrosiphonia because according to Wille (1899), species with uninucleate cells should be assigned to Spongomorpha; S. duriuscula falls into this group.
4. Halopteris dura (Rupr.) Sinova is cited by Russian scientists with the authorship of Sinova (e.g., Perestenko, 1980; Klochkova 1998) whereas in fact Sinova published another combination: Stypocaulon dura (Rupr.) Sinova (Sinova 1954: 273). The combination in Halopteris was published by Perestenko (1980: 165), who, however, credited the authorship of H. dura to Sinova.
5. Alaria marginata Postels & Rupr. in the Russian literature is considered to be a senior synonym of A. praelonga Kjellm. in accordance with Petrov's interpretation (Petrov 1973).
6. The name Halosaccion glandiforme is retained in this paper in spite of Perestenko's (1994) proposal to replace it by its later taxonomic synonym H. hydrophorum (Postels & Rupr.) Kütz. (basionym: Dumontia hydrophora Postels & Rupr.) because the type specimen of H. glandiforme, Ulva glandiformis Gmelin was lost forever. Still I consider this reason insufficient for the change of the species epithet and think it is expedient to retain widely accepted name H. glandiforme.
7. I identified this species as Palmaria mollis because morphology of our specimens was very close to that described by the authors of this species (van der Meer and Bird 1985). They drew attention to the fact that Palmaria stenogona (Perest.) Perest., widely recognized by Russian phycologists, is an extremely polymorphic species, and some of its forms are suggestive of P. mollis. Our studies confirm this suggestion.
8. Mazzaella cornucopiae or Iridaea cornucopiae has been widely reported from the northern Pacific. Perestenko (1994) stated that it had two forms: subsp. cornucopiae, distributed in the Sea of Okhotsk, Bering Sea, Kurile and Commander islands, and subsp. yendoi (Yamada & Mikami) Perest. (basyonym: Chondrus yendoi Yamada & Mikami) distributed in the southern Kurile Islands, Sakhalin, the Sea of Japan. Hughey et al. (2001), however, using chloroplast nucleotide sequences, found that the type specimen of Iridaea cornucopiae is conspecific with Iridaea laminarioides Bory, an alga native to Chile. These authors suspect that the type specimen of I. cornucopiae was collected in Chile and erroneously associated with plants collected in the North Pacific. They used the name Mazzaella parksii (Setch. & N.L.Gardner) Hughey, P.C.Silva, & Hommersand for the North Pacific entity.
9. I originally identified this alga as Turnerella glaphyra Perest. based on its original description (Perestenko 1976). T. glaphyra has been synonymized with T. septemtrionalis (Kjellm.) Schmitz (Perestenko 1994: 114). Septemtrionalis is the spelling originally used by Kjellman.
10. This species was listed originally as Ceramium strictum Harvey, however this name is illegitimate (Silva et al. 1996) and is replaced by the synonym, C. deslongchampii Chauvin ex Duby. It was recorded from the Russian part of the Sea of Japan by Perestenko (1994), and is now recorded from the Bering Sea for the first time.