Porolithon
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| Genus: | Porolithon Foslie, 1909
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| Porolithon onkodes Foslie 1909
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Porolithon is a genus of coralline red algae.[1] although more species have been recently proposed. The Porolithon are the primary reef building algae. When coral reefs reach sea level, many corals break under the high energy impact of the waves, while coralline red algae, primarily Porolithon, continuing building and cementing the reef structure.[2]
Taxonomy
[edit]Porolithon was a member of the family Corallinaceae until 2018 when it was moved into a new family Porolithaceae.[3][4][5] The genus currently comprises 24 species, although more have been recently proposed based on genomic analyses.[6]
The type species of this genus, Porolithon onkodes, was originally described in 1897 as Lithothamnion onkodes by Franz Heydrich, but subsequently moved to Porolithon in 1909.[7]
Species
[edit]Accepted species in the genus are:[8]
- Porolithon aequinoctiale (Foslie) Foslie
- Porolithon antillarum (Foslie & M.Howe) Foslie & M.Howe
- Porolithon castellum E.Y.Dawson
- Porolithon colliculosum Masaki
- Porolithon imitatum R.A.Townsend & G.W.Saunders
- Porolithon improcerum (Foslie & M.Howe) M.Howe
- Porolithon maneveldtii R.A.Townsend & Huisman
- Porolithon marshallense W.R.Taylor
- Porolithon oligocarpum (Foslie) W.H.Adey
- Porolithon onkodes (Heydrich) Foslie
- Porolithon penroseae R.A.Townsend & P.W.Gabrielson
- Porolithon praetextatum (Foslie) Foslie
- Porolithon sandvicense (Foslie) Foslie
- Porolithon sonorense E.Y.Dawson
References
[edit]- ^ "WoRMS: Porolithon". World Register of Marine Species.
- ^ Lee, Robert Edward (1999). Phycology. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-63883-6.
- ^ Townsend, R.A. & Huisman, J.M. (2018). 'Coralline algae'. In: Algae of Australia. Marine benthic algae of north-western Australia. 2. Red algae. (Huisman, J.M. Eds), pp. 86-97, 105-137, 143-146. Canberra & Melbourne: ABRS & CSIRO Publishing.
- ^ Peña, Viviana; Vieira, Christophe; Braga, Juan Carlos; Aguirre, Julio; Rösler, Anja; Baele, Guy; De Clerck, Olivier; Le Gall, Line (2020-09-01). "Radiation of the coralline red algae (Corallinophycidae, Rhodophyta) crown group as inferred from a multilocus time-calibrated phylogeny". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 150: 106845. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2020.106845. ISSN 1055-7903.
- ^ Wynne, Michael J.; Schneider, Craig W. (2022-04-01). "Fifth addendum to the synoptic review of red algal genera". Botanica Marina. 65 (2): 141–151. doi:10.1515/bot-2021-0093. ISSN 1437-4323.
- ^ Gabrielson, Paul W.; Hughey, Jeffery R.; Diaz‐Pulido, Guillermo (2018-06-19). "Genomics reveals abundant speciation in the coral reef building alga Porolithon onkodes (Corallinales, Rhodophyta)". Journal of Phycology. 54 (4): 429–434. doi:10.1111/jpy.12761. ISSN 0022-3646.
- ^ Guiry, M.D.; Guiry, G.M. "Porolithon onkodes". AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. Retrieved 2024-09-29.
- ^ Guiry, M.D.; Guiry, G.M. "Porolithon". AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. Retrieved 28 September 2020.
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