Checklist of benthic marine algae and cyanobacteria of northern Portugal

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2009

Authors

Rita Araujo (Author) Other; Ignacio Barbara (Author) Other; Marta Tibaldo (Author) Other; Estibaliz Berecibar (Author) Other; Pilar D Diaz Tapia (Author) Other; Rui Pereira (Author) Other; Rui Santos (Author) Other; Isabel Sousa Pinto (Author) FCUP

Journal

Title: Botanica Marina

Vol. 52

Pages: 24-46

ISSN: 0006-8055

Publisher: Walter De Gruyter

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Scientific classification

FOS: Natural sciences > Earth and related Environmental sciences

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-003-NB9

DOI: 10.1515/bot.2009.026

Abstract (EN): The northern Portuguese coast is a biogeographic transition zone where many macroalgal species have their distribution limits; it is thus a particularly interesting region for investigating species distribution shifts. An updated and complete list of species for this region is not available in spite of its baseline importance for comparative studies with past and present data. Based on new records, literature references, and herbarium data, we provide an updated checklist of the benthic marine algae of the northern Portuguese coast. This checklist includes 346 species: 26 Cyanobacteria, 200 Rhodophyta, 70 Ochrophyta, and 50 Chlorophyta. From these, 21 species are new records for the Portuguese coast (Lyngbya aestuarii, Lyngbya semiplena, Microcoleus acutirostris, Myxosarcina gloeocapsoides, Aiolocolax pulchella, Antithamnion densum, Antithamnion villosum, Antithamnionella spirographidis, Dasya sessilis, Furcellaria lumbricalis, Neosiphonia harveyi, Porphyrostromium boryanum, Chorda filum, Dictyopteris ambigua, Sphacelaria rigidula, Undaria pinnatifida, Vaucheria coronata, Vaucheria velutina, Ulothrix implexa, Ulva scandinavica, and Umbraulva olivascens) and 33 were recorded for the first time in the north of Portugal. Alien species have increased in number and extended their distribution range over the last 10 years in the study area. Distribution shifts of northern cold water species with southern distribution limit in the north of Portugal were not consistent among species.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 23