TY - JOUR
T1 - Caulerpa wysorii sp. nov., a denuded Caulerpa (Chlorophyta) resembling C. sertularioides when ‘dressed’
AU - Sauvage, Thomas
AU - Wynne, Michael J.
AU - Draisma, Stefano G.A.
AU - Ortegón-Aznar, Ileana
AU - Mateo-Cid, Luz Elena
AU - Mendoza-González, A. Catalina
AU - Martínez-Daranas, Beatriz
AU - Fredericq, Suzanne
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 International Phycological Society.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Routine DNA barcoding with the chloroplast gene tufA identified novel records of an unknown and denuded (i.e. lacking branchlets) Caulerpa species previously reported from the Florida Middle Grounds. tufA barcoding not only confirmed the matching molecular identity of this taxon with several newly collected denuded specimens from shallow habitats of the Yucatán shelf, but also with a set of plumose specimens previously collected from mesophotic depths of the West Florida shelf and recorded as Caulerpa sertularioides. Sequencing of two additional, faster-evolving DNA markers, i.e. nuclear ITS and the newly tested chloroplast-encoded rpoA, each confirmed conspecificity of the above morphotypes and the molecular separation of the new taxon from C. sertularioides and filiform species found in the region, namely C. cupressoides f. denudata and C. fastigiata. In light of our sequencing results and review of the early taxonomic history of filiform Caulerpa, we propose the description of Caulerpa wysorii sp. nov. for this new species that exhibits two distinct morphotypes in currently available collections, i.e. filiform or plumose assimilators. We also subsume C. tongaensis within the broadly distributed C. fastigiata, whose lectotype is also designated herein. In addition to Caulerpa wysorii sp. nov., we discovered yet another unknown denuded species from the Campeche Banks represented by a single specimen thus far.
AB - Routine DNA barcoding with the chloroplast gene tufA identified novel records of an unknown and denuded (i.e. lacking branchlets) Caulerpa species previously reported from the Florida Middle Grounds. tufA barcoding not only confirmed the matching molecular identity of this taxon with several newly collected denuded specimens from shallow habitats of the Yucatán shelf, but also with a set of plumose specimens previously collected from mesophotic depths of the West Florida shelf and recorded as Caulerpa sertularioides. Sequencing of two additional, faster-evolving DNA markers, i.e. nuclear ITS and the newly tested chloroplast-encoded rpoA, each confirmed conspecificity of the above morphotypes and the molecular separation of the new taxon from C. sertularioides and filiform species found in the region, namely C. cupressoides f. denudata and C. fastigiata. In light of our sequencing results and review of the early taxonomic history of filiform Caulerpa, we propose the description of Caulerpa wysorii sp. nov. for this new species that exhibits two distinct morphotypes in currently available collections, i.e. filiform or plumose assimilators. We also subsume C. tongaensis within the broadly distributed C. fastigiata, whose lectotype is also designated herein. In addition to Caulerpa wysorii sp. nov., we discovered yet another unknown denuded species from the Campeche Banks represented by a single specimen thus far.
KW - C. denudata
KW - C. fastigiata
KW - C. longiseta
KW - C. nuda
KW - C. tongaensis
KW - Caulerpa cupressoides
KW - Cryptic species
KW - Endemic
KW - Mesophotic
KW - rpoA
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85100190072&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/00318884.2020.1862563
DO - 10.1080/00318884.2020.1862563
M3 - Artículo
AN - SCOPUS:85100190072
SN - 0031-8884
VL - 60
SP - 107
EP - 119
JO - Phycologia
JF - Phycologia
IS - 2
ER -