Journal
ALGAE
Volume 33, Issue 1, Pages 69-84Publisher
KOREAN SOC PHYCOLOGY
DOI: 10.4490/algae.2018.33.3.10
Keywords
Herposiphonia donghaensis sp nov.; H. jejuinsula sp nov.; H. sparsa sp nov.; molecular phylogeny; Rhodophyta; taxonomy
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- National Institute of Biological Resources (NIBR)
- Ministry of Environment (MOE) of Korea [NIBR201401204]
- National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF)
- Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning of the Republic of Korea [2017R1A2B4009420]
- Ministry of Environment (ME), Republic of Korea [NIBR201401204] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
- National Research Foundation of Korea [2017R1A2B4009420] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
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We examined the species diversity of Herposiphonia on Korean coasts, based on a combination of morphology and molecular analyses of the mitochondrial COI-5P DNA barcode marker and plastid rbcL gene. We report the presence of eight species including three novel species: H. donghaensis sp. nov., H. jejuinsula sp. nov., H. sparsa sp. nov., H. caespitosa, H. fissidentoides, H. insidiosa, H. parca, and H. subdisticha. Specimens were separated into eight clades in both the COI-5P and rbcL gene analyses, with 1.3-19.6 and 6.6-15% interspecific sequence divergence, respectively. These eight species are also distinguishable by several morphological characteristics such as: branching pattern (d/i pattern in H. donghaensis sp. nov. and H. sparsa sp. nov.; d/d/d/i pattern in others), shape of determinate branch (ligulate in H. fissidentoides; terete in others), number of vegetative trichoblasts (1-2 in H. insidiosa and H. sparsa sp. nov.; 3-4 in H. caespitosa; absent in others), and number of segments and pericentral cells in determinate branches. About three novel species revealed by our analyses, H. donghaensis sp. nov. is newly discovered, and H. jejuinsula sp. nov. and H. sparsa sp. nov. were previously reported in Korea as H. nuda and H. secunda, respectively. Our results show that DNA barcoding and rbcL analyses are useful for delimiting species boundaries and discovering cryptic species diversity in the genus Herposiphonia.
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