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Checklist of benthic marina algae and cyanobacteria of northern Portugal
Araujo, R; Bárbara, I.; Tibaldo, M; Berecibar, E; Díaz Tapia, P; Pereira, R.; Santos, R.; Sousa-Pinto, I. (2009). Checklist of benthic marina algae and cyanobacteria of northern Portugal. Bot. Mar. 52(1): 24-46. https://dx.doi.org/10.1515/BOT.2009.026
In: Botanica Marina. Walter de Gruyter & Co: Berlin; New York. ISSN 0006-8055; e-ISSN 1437-4323, more
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Keywords
    Algae
    Alien species
    Check lists
    Geography > Biogeography
    ANE, Portugal [Marine Regions]
    Marine/Coastal
Author keywords
    alien species; biogeography; checklist; macroalgae; northern Portugal

Authors  Top | Dataset 
  • Araujo, R, more
  • Bárbara, I., more
  • Tibaldo, M
  • Berecibar, E
  • Díaz Tapia, P
  • Pereira, R., more
  • Santos, R.
  • Sousa-Pinto, I., more

Abstract
    The northern Portuguese coast is a biogeographic transition zone where many macroalgal species have their distribution limits; it is thus a particularly interesting region for investigating species distribution shifts. An updated and complete list of species for this region is not available in spite of its baseline importance for comparative studies with past and present data. Based on new records, literature references, and herbarium data, we provide an updated checklist of the benthic marine algae of the northern Portuguese coast. This checklist includes 346 species: 26 Cyanobacteria, 200 Rhodophyta, 70 Ochrophyta, and 50 Chlorophyta. From these, 21 species are new records for the Portuguese coast (Lyngbya aestuarii, Lyngbya semiplena, Microcoleus acutirostris, Myxosarcina gloeocapsoides, Aiolocolax pulchella, Antithamnion densum, Antithamnion villosum, Antithamnionella spirographidis, Dasya sessilis, Furcellaria lumbricalis, Neosiphonia harveyi, Porphyrostromium boryanum, Chorda filum, Dictyopteris ambigua, Sphacelaria rigidula, Undaria pinnatifida, Vaucheria coronata, Vaucheria velutina, Ulothrix implexa, Ulva scandinavica, and Umbraulva olivascens) and 33 were recorded for the first time in the north of Portugal. Alien species have increased in number and extended their distribution range over the last 10 years in the study area. Distribution shifts of northern cold water species with southern distribution limit in the north of Portugal were not consistent among species.

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  • Checklist of benthic marine algae and cyanobacteria of northern Portugal, more

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