Marine algal flora of São Miguel Island, Azores

Biodiversity Data Journal

Nuno Álvaro¹  Manuela Parente²  Andrea Botelho²  Sandra Monteiro²  Ana Costa²  Enric Ballesteros³  Roberto Resendes⁴  Pedro Afonso⁵  David Milla-Figueras⁵  William Farnham⁶  Robert Fletcher⁶  Edgar Rosas Alquicira⁷  Raul Neto⁸  Ian Tittley⁹  Joana Micael^1,10  Karla León-Cisneros^1,11  Eva Cacabelos^1,12  Afonso Prestes^1,12  Ana I Neto^1,12  Ignacio Moreu^1,12  José Azevedo^1,12  Rita Patarra^1,12 

[1] 10CCMMG (Centro do Clima Meteorologia e Mudanças Globais) & IITA-A (Instituto de Investigação e Tecnologias Agrárias e do Ambiente), Universidade dos Açores, Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias;CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, InBIO Laboratório Associado, Pólo dos Açores, Universidade dos Açores, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Departamento de Biologia;Centre d’Estudis Avançats de Blanes-CSIC;Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Departamento de Biologia, Universidade dos Açores;IMAR/Okeanos, Departamento de Oceanografia e Pescas, Universidade dos Açores;Institute of Marine Sciences, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Portsmouth;Lane Community College;N/A;Natural History Museum;Southwest Iceland Nature Research Centre (SINRC);Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Sur, Departamento Académico de Ciencias Marinas y Costeras;cE3c - Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes/Azorean Biodiversity Group, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Departamento de Biologia, Universidade dos Açores;

关键词: macroalgae;    Azores;    São Miguel Island;    new records;   

DOI  :  10.3897/BDJ.9.e64969

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The macroalgal flora of the Island of São Miguel (eastern group of the Azores archipelago) has attracted the interest of many researchers in the past, the first publications going back to the nineteenth century. Initial studies were mainly taxonomic, resulting in the publication of a checklist of the Azorean benthic marine algae. Later, the establishment of the University of the Azores on the Island permited the logistic conditions to develop both temporal studies and long-term research, and this resulted in a significant increase on research directed at the benthic marine algae and littoral communities of the Island and consequent publications.Prior to the present paper, the known macroalgal flora of São Miguel Island comprised around 260 species. Despite this richness, a significant amount of the research was never made public, notably Masters and PhD theses encompassing information regarding presence data recorded at littoral and sublittoral levels down to a depth of approximately 40 m around the Island, and the many collections made, which resulted in vouchers deposited in the AZB Herbarium Ruy Telles Palhinha and the LSM- Molecular Systematics Laboratory at the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of the University of the Azores.The present publication lists the macroalgal taxonomic records together with information on their ecology and occurrence around São Miguel Island, improving the knowledge of the Azorean macroalgal flora at local and regional scales.A total of 12,781 specimens (including some identified only to genus) belonging to 431 taxa of macroalgae are registered, comprising 284 Rhodophyta, 59 Chlorophyta and 88 Ochrophyta (Phaeophyceae). Of these, 323 were identified to species level (212 Rhodophyta, 48 Chlorophyta and 63 Ochrophyta), of which 61 are new records for the Island (42 Rhodophyta, 9 Chlorophyta and 10 Ochrophyta), 1 an Azorean endemic (Predaea feldmannii subsp. azorica Gabriel), 5 are Macaronesian endemisms (the red algae Botryocladia macaronesica Afonso-Carrillo, Sobrino, Tittley & Neto, Laurencia viridis Gil-Rodríguez & Haroun, Millerella tinerfensis (Seoane-Camba) S.M.Boo & J.M.Rico, Phyllophora gelidioides P.Crouan & H.Crouan ex Karsakoff and the green alga Codium elisabethiae O.C.Schmidt), 19 are introduced species (15 Rhodophyta, 2 Chlorophyta and 2 Ochrophyta), and 32 are of uncertain status (21 Rhodophyta, 5 Chlorophyta and 6 Ochrophyta).

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