Fróðskaparrit - 01.01.2001, Page 56

60 SEAWEEDS OF THE FAROE ISLANDS
AN ANNOTATED CHECKLIST
Fig. 14. Mastocarpus stellatus. Scale bar 2 cm.
Drawing Astrid Andreasen.
2 cm
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Stations: 1038, 1352, 1359, 1360, 1372, 1379, 1725,
1727, 1730, 1731.
Littoral to 25 m depth.
Remarks: collected in May and Jnly. Tetrasporangia in
May. On rocks, often together with Halichondria
sp.
Mastocarpus stellatus (Stackh. in With.) Guiry in
Guiry et al. (Fig. 14)
Gigartina stellata (Stackh.) Batters, G. mamillosa
(Gooden. & Woodw.) J.Agardh.
References: Guiry and West (1983), Rueness (1998).
Stations: 1001, 1016. 1019, 1020, 1024, 1033, 1034,
1035, 1045, 1049, 1110, 1120, 1124, 1126, 1137,
1142, 1174, 1187, 1272, 1278, 1279, 1280, 1281,
1287, 1288, 1289, 1297, 1305, 1347, 1348, 1351,
1352, 1353, 1354, 1358, 1362, 1363, 1364, 1371,
1375, 1376, 1380, 1682, 1683, 1684, 1685, 1686,
1687, 1688, 1689, 1690, 1691, 1692, 1693, 1696,
1697, 1700, 1701, 1702, 1703, 1716, 1717, 1719,
1720, 1721, 1722, 1723, 1733, 1738, 1756, 1759,
1760, 1761, 1762, 1763, 1764, 1765, 1766, 1767,
1768, 1769, 1771, 1772, 1773, 1775, 1777, 1779,
1781, 1783, 1784, 1850, 1851, 1853, 1911, 1912,
1913.
Littoral to 2 (-7) m depth.
Remarks: collected in April-October. Cystocarps in
September.
Meiodiscus spetsbergensis (Kjellm.) G.W.Saunders &
McLachlan
Audouinella spetsbergensis (Kjellm.) Woelk.,
Rhodochorton penicilliforme (Kjellm.) Rosenv.
Reference: Saunders and McLachlan (1991).
Stations: 1008, 1011, 1022, 1027, 1029, 1365, 1724,
1725, 1727, 1731, 1850, 1852.
Littoral to 25 m depth.
Remarks: collected in May and July-August. Mono-
sporangia in July, tetrasporangia in May. Epiphytic
on blade, stipe and holdfasts of Laminaria hyper-
borea, Chaetomorpha melagonium and epizoic on
bryozoans, hydroides and Modiolus modiolus.
* Melobesia membranacea (Esper) J.V.Lamour.
See Wegeberg etal. (2001).
Membranoptera alata (Huds.) Stackh. (Fig. 15)
Delesseria alata (Huds.) J.V.Lamour.
Reference: Maggs and Hommersanđ (1993).
Stations: 1001, 1008, 1009, 1012, 1013, 1016, 1017,