Cladophora montagneana

Cladophora montagneana Kützing

Cladophora montagneana Kützing, 1849:415; van den Hoek, 1982:105, figs. 145–173; van den Hoek and Womersley, 1984:204, figs. 66B, 67E–I; Bucio-Pacheco and Dreckmann, 1998:43; Pedroche et al., 2005:46.

Conferva brachyclados Montagne, 1837:349; Montagne, 1842a:13, pl. 4 [type of Cladophora montagneana; see van den Hoek, 1982:105].

Cladophora brachyclados (Montagne) Harvey, 1858:81.

Cladophora delicatula Montagne, 1850:302; Kützing, 1856: pl. 1: fig. 2; Dawson, 1944:210; Dawson, 1961b:377; Dawson, 1966a:5 [with a query]; González-González et al., 1996:281; Bucio-Pacheco and Dreckmann, 1998:44; Wysor, 2004:217; Mateo-Cid et al., 2006:48 [with a query].

Algae delicate hair-like tufts, of narrow filaments up to 2 cm long; branching often widely spaced, pseudodichotomous to irregular, sometimes in unilateral rows; attached by branched basal rhizoids. Cells of main axis and lower branches usually 40–50 µm in diameter and 3–4(–5) times longer than wide (mostly up to 200 µm long); upper cells shorter in length than lower cells, 18–25(–30) µm in diameter, and 1–2 times longer than wide.

HABITAT. On rocks and tidal flats; intertidal.

DISTRIBUTION. Gulf of California: Puerto Peñasco; Rio Mayo. Pacific coast: Michoacán; Panama.

TYPE LOCALITY. Cuba.