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Deep-water macroalgae from the Canary Islands: new records and biogeographical relationships

Helgoländer Meeresuntersuchungen volume 47, pages 125–143 (1993)Cite this article

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Due to the geographical location and paleobiogeography of the Canary Islands, the seaweed flora contains macroalgae with different distributional patterns. In this contribution, the biogeographical relations of several new records of deep-water macroalgae recently collected around the Canarian archipelago are discussed. These areBryopsidella neglecta (Berthold) Rietema,Discosporangium mesarthrocarpum (Meneghini) Hauck,Hincksia onslowensis (Amsler et Kapraun) P. C. Silva,Syringoderma floridana Henry,Peyssonnelia harveyana J. Agardh,Cryptonemia seminervis (C. Agardh) J. Agardh,Botryocladia wynnei Ballantine,Gloiocladia blomquistii (Searles) R. E. Norris,Halichrysis peltata (W. R. Taylor) P. Huvé et H. Huvé,Leptofauchea brasiliensis Joly, andSarcodiotheca divaricata W. R. Taylor. These new records, especially those in the Florideophyceae, support the strong affinity of the Canary Islands seaweed flora with the warm-temperate Mediterranean-Atlantic region. Some species are recorded for the first time from the east coast of the Atlantic Ocean, enhancing the biogeographic relations of the Canarian marine flora with that of the western Atlantic regions.

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  1. Dpto. de Biología, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 35017, Las Palmas, Spain

    R. J. Haroun & R. Herrera

  2. Rijksherbarium/Hortus Botanicus, University of Leiden, P.O. Box 9514, 2300 RA, Leiden, The Netherlands

    W. F. Prud'homme van Reine

  3. Fakultät für Biologie der Universität Konstanz, Postfach 5560, D-78434, Konstanz, Federal Republic of Germany

    D. G. Müller

  4. U.C.T.R.A., Universidade de Algarve, Campus de Gambelas, 8000, Faro, Portugal

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Haroun, R.J., Prud'homme van Reine, W.F., Müller, D.G. et al. Deep-water macroalgae from the Canary Islands: new records and biogeographical relationships. Helgolander Meeresunters 47, 125–143 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02430354

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