The Japanese alga Polysiphonia morrowii (Rhodomelaceae, Rhodophyta) on the South Atlantic Ocean: first report of an invasive macroalga inhabiting oyster reefs

• Published in: Helgoland Marine Research
• Main Authors: Croce, Maria Emilia, Parodi, Elisa Rosalia
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer
• Subjects: Atlantic Patagonia; Crassostrea Gigas; Endogenous Axillary Branches; Invasive Macroalgae; Oyster Reefs; Polysiphonia Morrowii; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.6; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Patagonia; Argentino; Argentina; Parodi; Crassostrea gigas; South Atlantic Ocean
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/11367

Conspicuous tufts of the filamentous algae Polysiphonia Greville inhabit the reefs of Crassostrea gigas on the Atlantic Patagonian coast. The population was recorded for the first time in 1994 and identified as P. argentinica. This study exhaustively investigated the morphology and reproduction of s...