Rhodoliths in Brazil: Current knowledge and potential impacts of climate change

PA Horta, P Riul, GM Amado Filho… - Brazilian Journal of …, 2016 - SciELO Brasil
Rhodolith beds are important marine benthic ecosystems, representing oases of high
biodiversity among sedimentary seabed environments. They are found frequently and …

Diversity, distribution, and environmental drivers of coralline red algae: the major reef builders in the Southwestern Atlantic

MN Sissini, G Koerich, MB de Barros-Barreto… - Coral Reefs, 2022 - Springer
Coralline red algae (CRA) are key players in the construction and maintenance of biogenic
reefs, and they have important functional roles in ecological systems in the Southwestern …

Revisiting the evolution of non-geniculate coralline algae taxonomy: history and perspectives

LAS Leão, RG Bahia, CS Karez, LT Salgado… - Aquatic Botany, 2024 - Elsevier
Non-geniculate coralline algae (NGCA), Corallinophycidae-Rhodophyta, are characterized
by prominent calcified vegetative thalli. They exhibit broad phenotypic plasticity, and …

A re-evaluation of subtidal Lithophyllum species (Corallinales, Rhodophyta) from North Carolina, USA, and the proposal of L. searlesii sp. nov.

JL Richards, PW Gabrielson, JR Hughey… - …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
The current identification of crustose coralline algae from North Carolina is based on a few
morphoanatomical studies from the last century. We reassessed the type specimens of the …

Tethysphytum antarcticum gen. et sp. nov. (Hapalidiales, Rhodophyta), a new non-geniculate coralline alga from Terra Nova Bay (Ross Sea, Antarctica): morpho …

K Sciuto, E Moschin, G Alongi… - European Journal of …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Over the last decade, our knowledge of the phylogenetic and taxonomic diversity of coralline
algae has greatly progressed thanks to the use of DNA sequence data. Despite this, in some …

Guidelines for DNA barcoding of coralline algae, focusing on Lithophylloideae (Corallinales) from Brazil

BN Torrano-Silva, BR Vieira… - Botanica …, 2018 - degruyter.com
Abstract Multiple-marker (COI-5P, UPA, psb A and rbc L-3P) and two algorithmic
approaches [automatic barcode gap discovery (ABGD) and Poisson tree process (PTP)] …

Calcification in free-living coralline algae is strongly influenced by morphology: Implications for susceptibility to ocean acidification

N Schubert, LC Hofmann, AC Almeida Saá… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Rhodolith beds built by free-living coralline algae are important ecosystems for marine
biodiversity and carbonate production. Yet, our mechanistic understanding regarding …

Survey of non-geniculate coralline red algae from Brazil and the identification of four new species of Lithophyllum (Corallinales, Corallinophycidae)

FP Gomes, MB Lyra, BN Torrano-Silva, T Vieira-Pinto… - …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Specimens attributed to the genus Lithophyllum were collected during multiple surveys
conducted along the Brazilian coast. These specimens were studied using DNA sequences …

DNA Sequencing of Type Material Reveals Pneophyllum marlothii comb. nov. from South Africa and P. discoideum comb. nov. (Chamberlainoideae, Corallinales …

CA Puckree‐Padua, PW Gabrielson… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
A partial rbcL sequence from the type material of Spongites discoideus from southern
Argentina showed that it was distinct from rbcL sequences of South African specimens to …

[PDF][PDF] Article PHYTOTAXA

GW Maneveldt, PW Gabrielson, RA Townsend… - Phytotaxa, 2019 - academia.edu
Lithophyllum longense is characterized from Long Reef, Western Australia, Australia and
from Chwaka Bay, Zanzibar Island, Tanzania. Both plastid markers psbA and rbcL confirm …