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Seaweeds of the Faroe Islands
An annotated checklist
Tarar í føroyskum øki.
Ruth Nielsen1 and Karl Gunnarsson2
1: Botanical Museum and Library, Gothersgade 130, DK-1123 Copenhagen K, Denmark, Phone: + 45 35322185;
Fax: +45 35322186; E-mail: ruthn@bot.ku.dk
2: Marine Research Institute, Skúlagotu 4, 101 Reykjavik, Iceland. Phone: + 354 5520240; Fax: +354 5623790; E-
mail: karl@hafro.is
Úrtak
í tíðini juli 1994 til august 2000 vórðu sum liður í
BIOFAR-verkætlunum tarar og algur savnað á 265
støðum kring Føroyar. 011 navngreinað sløg eru sett í
lista og sløg og nøvn brúkt frá 1896 eru tikin við.
Tilsaman 265 sløg vórðu funnin: 114 reyðtarar, 83
brúntarar, 4 gulgrønalgur og 64 grønalgur, av hesum
vórðu 44 funnin fyri fyrstu ferð í Føroyum. Eisini vórðu
funnar 18 blágrønalgur. Fyri eitt slag av hesum verður
skotið upp at nýta heitið Sphaenosiphon farlowi
(Børgesen) R.Nielsen and K.Gunnarsson com.nov.
Abstract
Collections of marine algae were made at 265 stations
between July 1994 and August 2000 as part of the BIO-
FAR programme. The identified species are listed in-
cluding previous records and names used in publications
about marine algae from the Faroe Islands since 1896.
The 113 Rhodophyceae, 83 Phaeophyceae, 4 Xantho-
phyceae and 64 Chlorophyceae listed here total 264
species, 42 of these are new records for the Faroe Is-
lands. We also identified 18 Cyanophyceae, for one of
them Sphaenosiphon farlowii (Børgesen) R. Nielsen
and K. Gunnarsson comb. nov. is proposed.
Introduction
A comprehensive study of the marine flora
and fauna of the Faroes, known as the BIO-
FAR project was initiated in 1987 (Nørre-
vang et al., 1994). In the beginning the
main objective was to make an inventory of
the marine benthic fauna living in the
Faroese waters. Since 1994 the project has
focused on organisms in the littoral and
shallow sublittoral and the marine benthic
macroalgae were included (Sørensen et al.,
2001). A description of different communi-
ties of marine plants and animals on the
shores and in the shallow water around the
islands was given by Bruntse et al. (1999a)
and the effect of wave exposure on the dis-
tribution of littoral algae by Bruntse et al.
(1999b) and Lein et al. (2001).
The first published account of the marine
benthic macroalgae of the Faeroes dates
back to J. Landt (1800). An important ear-
ly collection is Lyngbye’s ‘Tentamen hy-
drophytologiae danicae’ (Lyngbye, 1819)
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