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Description:
Author(s):
Tsuda, R. T., Vroom, P. S., Page-Albins, K. N.
Title:
New marine algal records from the Polynesia-Micronesia region of the Pacific Ocean
Publication Date:
2012
Journal Title:
Marine Biodiversity Records
Volume:
5
Abstract:
"The first known collections of marine algae from Santa Rosa Reef, a submerged seamount located 46 km south-south-west of Guam in the Mariana Islands, occurred at 10.0 to 13.7 m depths in 2003 and 2005. Dasycladus vermicularis, a green alga known predominantly from the Caribbean but also reported from the Philippines in 1976 and the Ryukyus in 1995, and Cutleria irregularis, a brown alga first described from the Hawaiian Islands in 2003, represent the first record of D. vermicularis in the Polynesia-Micronesia region, and the first record of C. irregularis in Micronesia. In total, 8 of the 32 algal species collected at Santa Rosa Reef represent new records for the Mariana Islands."
Keywords:
Dasycladus vermicularis; Cutleria irregularis; marine algae; Polynesia; Micronesia; Mariana Islands; Santa Rosa Reef;
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