''Clymene coleana'', formerly known as ''Porphyra cinnamomea'', is a red alga species in the family
Bangiaceae
Bangiaceae is a family of red algae in the order Bangiales. It contains laver, used to make laverbread, and various species in the genus of ''Pyropia'' are used to make nori.
Genera
Bangiaceae currently contains between 20 and 22 accepted gener ...
. It is the only species in the
monotypic
In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon. A monotypic species is one that does not include subspecies or smaller, infraspecific taxa. In the case of genera, the term "unisp ...
genus ''Clymene.'' This species is
endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found only in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also foun ...
to New Zealand.
Taxonomy
The genus name of ''Clymene'' is named after a
Greek mythology
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nymph,
Clymene (mother of Phaethon)
In Greek mythology, Greek and Roman mythology, Clymene or Klymene (; ) is an Oceanid nymph who was loved by the sun-god Helios and became the mother by him of Phaethon and the Heliades. In most versions, Clymene is the one to reveal to Phaethon ...
.
Morphology and habitat
In winter ''C. coleana'' is grey in colour but in summer it bleaches to a golden colour.
It has fine finger like lobes and has cells in a single layer and is
monoecious
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.
With ''
P. cinnamomea'', ''
P. rakiura'' and ''
P. virididentata'', this species can be distinguished by
morphology
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Disciplines
*Morphology (archaeology), study of the shapes or forms of artifacts
*Morphology (astronomy), study of the shape of astronomical objects such as nebulae, galaxies, ...
, such as the microscopic arrangement of cells along their
thallus
Thallus (: thalli), from Latinized Greek (), meaning "a green shoot" or "twig", is the vegetative tissue of some organisms in diverse groups such as algae, fungi, some liverworts, lichens, and the Myxogastria. A thallus usually names the entir ...
margin, their thallus shape, size and colour, as well as geographical,
ecological
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and seasonal
distribution patterns, and importantly,
chromosome
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numbers, which in this species n = 4.
Finally, these four species are distinguished by a particular
nucleotide
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sequence at the
18S rDNA locus
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Mathematics and science
* Locus (mathematics), the set of points satisfying a particular condition, often forming a curve
* Root locus analysis, a diagram visualizing the position of r ...
.
This species inhabits the upper parts of the intertidal zone on rock substrata on open coasts.
It has fine finger like lobes and in winter is a grey colour. In summer however it bleaches to a golden colour.
Distribution
This species is endemic to New Zealand and can be found on the coastline of the North, South and Chatham Islands.
References
Further reading
*Nelson, W. A., J. E. Broom, and T. J. Farr. doi:10.2216/i0031-8884-42-3-308.1, "Pyrophyllon and Chlidophyllon (Erythropeltidales, Rhodophyta): two new genera for obligate epiphytic species previously placed in Porphyra, and a discussion of the orders Erythropeltidales and Bangiales." Phycologia 42.3 (2003): 308–315.
*Deng, Yinyin, et al. "Cytological observations and rbcL, nrSSU gene sequence analyses of filamentous Bangiales (Rhodophyta) from China." Journal of Applied Phycology 27.3 (2014): 1355–1363.
External links
AlgaeBase
Bangiophyceae
Species described in 2011
Taxa named by Wendy Nelson
Algae of New Zealand
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