On reproduction in Crouania pumila (Callithamniaceae, Rhodophyta), a new record for the Red Sea
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Razy Hoffman
Razy Hoffman is the manager of the herbarium of marine and freshwater plants, Cyanobacteria and aquatic parasitic fungi at The Steinhardt Museum of Natural History in Tel Aviv University, Israel. He obtained his PhD from Bar-Ilan University in 2012. His main research interests focus on algal and seagrass diversity, taxonomy, systematic and ecology as well as the commercial potential of these groups. D’s research covers topics in marine ecology, seaweed biology and evolution but mostly on the effects of invasive and alien species and climate changes on the marine environment.
Abstract
The minute red alga Crouania pumila (Callithamniaceae: Rhodophyta), recently described from the Caribbean Sea, is reported for the first time from the Red Sea, approximately 12,000 km from the type locality, based on microscope slide specimens collected 40 years ago by Dr. Yaacov Lipkin. These samples contribute new information regarding the reproduction of this algal species.
About the author
Razy Hoffman is the manager of the herbarium of marine and freshwater plants, Cyanobacteria and aquatic parasitic fungi at The Steinhardt Museum of Natural History in Tel Aviv University, Israel. He obtained his PhD from Bar-Ilan University in 2012. His main research interests focus on algal and seagrass diversity, taxonomy, systematic and ecology as well as the commercial potential of these groups. D’s research covers topics in marine ecology, seaweed biology and evolution but mostly on the effects of invasive and alien species and climate changes on the marine environment.
Acknowledgments
This manuscript is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Yaacov Lipkin (1935–2019). The author wishes to thank two anonymous reviewers for their comments and suggestions that improved this paper.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- In this issue
- Physiology and ecology
- Isolate-specific resistance to the algicidal bacterium Kordia algicida in the diatom Chaetoceros genus
- Microalgal blooms in a eutrophic estuary (Golden Horn, Sea of Marmara) following a remediation effort
- Temporal succession of community structure and biphase ratio in a natural population of Ulva spp. (Chlorophyta) attached to Pyropia rafts in the Yellow Sea, China
- Taxonomy/phylogeny and biogeography
- Phylogenetic relationships within the genus Hypnea (Cystocloniaceae, Rhodophyta): convergent evolution and its implications in the infrageneric classification
- New records of the rare deep-water alga Sebdenia monnardiana (Rhodophyta) and the alien Dictyota cyanoloma (Phaeophyceae) and the unresolved case of deep-water kelp in the Ionian and Aegean Seas (Greece)
- Some rarely reported deep-water macroalgal species from Bonaire, Caribbean Sea, including Verdigellas discoidea sp. nov. (Palmophyllaceae, Chlorophyta) based on submersible collections
- On reproduction in Crouania pumila (Callithamniaceae, Rhodophyta), a new record for the Red Sea
- New record of the rare brown alga Dictyota hauckiana from Vietnam
- Solar irradiation as an alternative bleaching process for agar extracted from Gracilariopsis heteroclada in Iloilo, Philippines
- Annual reviewer acknowledgement
- Reviewer acknowledgement Botanica Marina volume 62 (2019)
