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Abstract:
Parviphycus albertanoae sp. nov. was described from the southern Adriatic Sea, Italy on the basis of morphological and molecular data. The new species formed dense tufts at the upper intertidal level on rocky substrata, exposed to intense wave action. Distinctive morphological characters were compressed upright axes closely arising from short stolons, numerous first-order branches and clavate tetrasporangial sori at main and lateral apices. Phylogenetic analysis of mitochondrial cox1 and plastid rbcL sequence data revealed that P. albertanoae was clearly separated from the congeners of the genus, corroborating the morphological distinctness.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We thank Drs G. Alongi and E. Cecere for providing liquid-preserved material from Sicily and Apulia, Prof. G. Furnari for his critical reading of the manuscript and the associate editors Drs F. Leliaert and J. Huisman for their useful suggestions. This work was supported by a Fondo Ateneo of the University of Bari, Italy, to AB and a Korean Research Foundation Grant (2013-0699) to SMB.
SUPPLEMENTARY DATA
Supplementary data associated with this article can be found online at http://dx.doi.org/10.2216/13-176.1.s1.