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- Title
The first detection of the invasive macroalga Codium fragile subsp. fragile (Suringar) Hariot in Western Australia.
- Authors
McDonald, Justin I.; Huisman, John M.; Hart, Felicity N.; Dixon, Rainbo R. M.; Lewis, John A.
- Abstract
Codium fragile subsp. fragile (Suringar) Hariot is a large, dichotomously branched green alga that has invaded many temperate locations around the globe. Despite its wide distribution and pest status, there are few accounts of Codium fragile subsp. fragile that provide morphological descriptions, including illustrations, for comparison. In 2008, a seaweed sample suspected to be Codium fragile subsp. fragile was collected from Albany, Western Australia. As this taxon superficially resembles other local erect and dichotomously branching Codium species, a detailed morphological and molecular analysis of the suspect alga was conducted. Investigations confirmed the identity of this alga as the invasive subspecies Codium fragile subsp. fragile. This represents the first record of this species in Western Australia.
- Subjects
WESTERN Australia; EASTERN Hemisphere; CODIUM; CODIACEAE; GREEN algae; PHYSIOLOGY
- Publication
BioInvasions Record, 2015, Vol 4, Issue 2, p75
- ISSN
2242-1300
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3391/bir.2015.4.2.01