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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY
Volume 53, Issue 3, Pages 350-368Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/09670262.2018.1452297
Keywords
Bermuda; Cryptonemia; C. abyssalis sp nov.; C. antricola sp nov.; C. atrocostalis sp nov.; C. bermudensis comb. nov.; C. lacunicola sp nov.; C. perparva sp nov.; Halymeniaceae; LSU rDNA; rbcL; Rhodophyta; UPA
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Funding
- NSF DEB [1120688, 1120652]
- Charles A. Dana Foundation
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- Canada Foundation for Innovation
- New Brunswick Innovation Foundation
- National Science Foundation (MRI) [DBI-0215393]
- National Science Foundation (EPSCoR) [0554548, EPS-1004057]
- US Department of Agriculture [2002-34438-12688, 2003-34438-13111, 2008-34438-19246]
- University of Rhode Island
- XL Catlin
- Garfield Western Foundation
- Division Of Environmental Biology
- Direct For Biological Sciences [1120652, 1120688] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Cryptonemia specimens collected in Bermuda over the past two decades were analysed using gene sequences encoding the large subunit of the nuclear ribosomal DNA and the large subunit of RuBisCO as genetic markers to elucidate their phylogenetic positions. They were additionally subjected to morphological assessment and compared with historical collections from the islands. Six species are presently found in the flora including C. bermudensis comb. nov., based on Halymenia bermudensis, and the following five new species: C. abyssalis, C. antricola, C. atrocostalis, C. lacunicola and C. perparva. Of the eight species known in the western Atlantic flora prior to this study, none is found in Bermuda. Specimens reported in the islands in the 1900s attributed to C. crenulata and C. luxurians are representative of the new species, C. antricola and C. atrocostalis, respectively.
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