A Check List of Marine Algae from Ifaluk Atoll, Caroline Islands
Abbott, Isabella A. (1961). "A Check List of Marine Algae from Ifaluk Atoll, Caroline Islands". Atoll Research Bulletin. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution. 77: 1–5. doi:10.5479/si.00775630.77.1. ISSN 0077-5630.
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Abstract: Checklist of marine algae from Ifaluk Atoll, Caroline Islands, with geographic context relating the algal flora of the Caroline Islands to the Marshall Islands as described by Taylor and Dawson, noting that the Carolines are largely low atolls near the Equator while volcanic islands in the group may support a more diverse flora. The compilation is based on a four-month collection period on Ifaluk Atoll and reports 85 species for the Caroline Islands, including 54 new records distributed among green, brown, and red algae. Earlier regional totals are cited from Schmidt, with additional species reported by Japanese workers.
Field and institutional context includes the Ifaluk Survey of 1953 sponsored by the Pacific Science Board, funding support linked to the Office of Naval Research and the National Academy of Sciences, and acknowledgments to Harold J. Coolidge. Collections were made by Donald P. Abbott, with related descriptive work on Ifaluk Atoll by Marston Bates and D. P. Abbott in Coral Island, Portrait of an Atoll.
Specimens are categorized by frequency across collecting stations as very common, common, or rare, and deposited in multiple institutions: University of Michigan, University of California at Berkeley, Bishop Museum, U.S. National Museum, and Chicago Natural History Museum, with residual holdings at Hopkins Marine Station of Stanford University. New records for the Caroline Islands are denoted in the list.
Chlorophyceae reported from Ifaluk Atoll include Enteromorpha torta (rare), an unidentified Enteromorpha (common), Ulvella lens on Microdictyon okamurai (rare), Chaetomorpha antennina (rare), Rhizoclonium samoense prox. (rare), Cladophora sp. (very common), Cladophora fuliginosa (common), Valonia ventricosa (rare) and Valonia utricularis (rare), Dictyosphaeria cavernosa (very common) and Dictyosphaeria versluysii (very common), Boodlea composita (very common), Anadyomene wrightii (rare), and Microdictyon okamurai noted as the commonest marine alga. Caulerpa taxa include Caulerpa antoensis (very common), Caulerpa ambigua (rare), Caulerpa bikinensis (rare), Caulerpa serrulata and varieties (very common), and Caulerpa urvilliana and forms (very common). Additional green algae include Bryopsis sp. (rare), Udotea argentea (common), Udotea indica (rare), Udotea orientalis (rare), Avrainvillea obscura (rare) and Avrainvillea sp., Rhipilia diaphana (rare), Rhipilia geppii (common), Rhipilia orientalis (common), Halimeda fragilis (rare), Halimeda gracilis and form (very common), Halimeda lacunalis (rare), Halimeda micronesica (very common), Halimeda opuntia and forms elongata, hederacea, triloba, and renschii distributed among institutions (very common), Halimeda stuposa (very common), Halimeda taenicola (common), Halimeda tridens (rare), Halimeda sp. noted from seven specimens, Halicoryne wrightii (rare), Neomeris annulata (rare), Neomeris vanbosseae (rare), Acetabularia parvula (common), Vaucheria sp. (rare), Dichotomosiphon sp
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