List of sea algae from Heligoland
This list contains the marine algae from the groups of green algae , brown algae and red algae that occur near Heligoland . It is an example of the fixed ( benthic ) algae found in the North Sea . The list is based on the book Meeresalgen von Helgoland (Kornmann & Sahling 1983) and the list The marine macroalgae of Helgoland (Bartsch & Kuhlenkamp (2000)).
A total of 322 species have been identified on the Heligoland rock base . These abundant algae deposits are unique for the German Bight , as Helgoland is the only rocky island with a pronounced rocky floodplain and Laminaria - kelp forests . Washed up or on harbor walls, some species can also be found on the North Sea islands and coasts in the Wadden Sea , but with 113 species there are significantly fewer species. In comparison, the western Baltic Sea has 211 species, in the eastern part only 181 species were found in the brackish water.
For many species there are no German names, so the list is arranged according to scientific names. These were updated according to AlgaeBASE (2012).
Brown algae (Phaeophyta)
- Acinetospora crinita
- Actinema scutellum
- Alaria esculenta - wing wrack , edible belt wrack
- Arthrocladia villosa
- Ascophyllum nodosum - knotted wrack
- Asperococcus fistulosus
- Battersia plumigera
- Battersia racemosa
- Botrytella micromora
- Botrytella reinboldii
- Chaetopteris plumosa
- Chorda filum - common sea string
- Chorda tomentosa - shaggy sea string
- Choir flagelliformis - Geißeltang
- Cladostephus spongiosus
- Cladostephus verticillatus
- Compsonema saxicola
- Corynophlaea crispa
- Cutleria multifida
- Delamarea attenuata
- Desmarestia aculeata - spiny wrack
- Desmarestia viridis - Feathery Desmarestia
- Dictyosiphon foeniculaceus - fennel tube algae
- Dictyota dichotoma - fork tongue
- Ectocarpus confervoides
- Ectocarpus dasycarpus
- Ectocarpus fascículatus
- Ectocarpus siliculosus - rock fiber algae
- Elachista fucicola - Seaweed tufted alga
- Elachista scutulata
- Eudesme virescens
- Fucus ceranoides
- Fucus serratus - sawwrack
- Fucus spiralis - spiral wrack
- Fucus vesiculosus - bladderwrack
- Halopteris scoparia
- Halosiphon tomentosus
- Haplospora globosa
- Halidrys siliquosa - pod wrack , sea oak
- Hecatonema terminale
- Herponema velutinum
- Himanthalia elongata - belt tang (temporary occurrence)
- Hincksia fuscata
- Hincksia granulosa
- Hincksia hincksiae
- Hincksia sandriana
- Isthmoplea sphaerophora
- Kuckuckia spinosa
- Kützingiella holmesii
- Kuetzingiella maculans
- Laminaria digitata - fingertrack
- Laminaria hyperborea - palm wrack
- Laminariocolax aecidioides
- Laminariocolax tomentosoides
- Leathesia marina
- Leptonematella fasciculata
- Lithosiphon filiformis
- Litosiphon laminariae
- Mesogloia vermiculata
- Microspongium globosum
- Microsyphar polysiphoniae
- Microsyphar porphyrae
- Myrionema strangulans
- Petalonia fascia - ribbon leaf
- Petalonia filiformis
- Petalonia zosterifolia - seaweed band algae
- Petroderma maculiforme
- Petrospongium berkeleyi
- Phaeostroma pustulosum
- Phycocelis crouaniorum
- Phycocelis foecunda
- Pilinia rimosa
- Pleurocladia lucifuga
- Pogotrichum filiforme
- Protectocarpus hecatonemoides
- Protectocarpus speciosus
- Protohalopteris radicans (Syn. Sphacelaria radicans ) - turf tuft alga
- Pseudolithoderma extensum
- Punctaria latifolia
- Punctaria plantaginea - common sea plantain
- Punctaria tenuissima
- Pylaiella littoralis
- Pylaiella varia
- Ralfsia verrucosa - warty brown algae
- Saccharina latissima (Syn. Laminaria saccharina ) - sugar kelp
- Saccorhiza polyschides
- Sargassum muticum , an invasive neobiont from the genus of the golf rod
- Sauvageaugloia divaricata
- Scytosiphon lomentaria - Corded hose rod
- Sorapion simulans
- Sphacelaria cirrosa
- Sphacelaria furcigera
- Sphacelaria plumula
- Sphacelaria rigidula
- Sphacelaria solitaria
- Sphaceloderma caespitula
- Sphacelorbus nanus
- Spongonema tomentosum - felty brown algae
- Sporochnus pedunculatus
- Stictyosiphon soriferus
- Stragularia clavata
- Streblonema fasciculatum
- Striaria attenuata
- Symphyocarpus strangulans
- Tilopteris mertensii
Red algae (Rhodophyta)
- Acrochaetium kuckuckianum
- Acrochaetium microfilum
- Acrochaetium secundatum
- Acrochaetium seiriolanum
- Aglaothamnion hookeri
- Aglaothamnion tenuissimum
- Ahnfeltia plicata - Faltentang
- Antithamnion cruciatum
- Antithamnionella floccosa
- Antithamnionella ternifolia
- Apoglossum ruscifolium
- Audouinella membranacea
- Bangia fuscopurpurea
- Bonnemaisonia hamifera (including Trailliella intricata ), a neophyte
- Brongniartella byssoides - Christmas tree algae
- Callithamnion corymbosum
- Callithamnion hookeri
- Callithamnion tetragonum , a neophyte
- Callithamnion tetricum
- Ceramium deslongchampsii
- Ceramium tenuicorne
- Ceramium virgatum (Syn. Ceramium rubrum ) - red horned wrack
- Chondria dasyphylla
- Chondrus crispus - cartilage wrack
- Coccotylus truncatus ( Syn.Phyllophora truncata )
- Colaconema daviesii
- Compsothamnion gracillimum
- Corallina officinalis - coral moss
- Cruoria pellita
- Cystoclonium purpureum
- Delesseria sanguinea - blood-red sea sorrel
- Dematolithon pustulatum
- Dudresnaya verticillata
- Dumontia contorta - worm leaf
- Erythrodermis traillii
- Erythrotrichia carnea
- Erythrotrichia reflexa
- Furcellaria lumbricalis - fork wrack
- Gastroclonium ovatum
- Gelidium corneum
- Gloiosiphonia capillaris
- Gracilaria gracilis
- Gracilariopsis longissima
- Gymnogongrus crenulatus
- Haemescharia hennedyi
- Halarachnion ligulatum
- Halurus flosculosus , a neophyte
- Harveyella mirabilis
- Helminthocladia calvadosii
- Helminthora divaricata
- Hildenbrandia rubra - Bacon crust algae
- Hydrolithon farinosum
- Hypoglossum hypoglossoides
- Jania Rubens
- Lithophyllum orbiculatum
- Lithothamnium special
- Lomentaria clavellosa
- Lomentaria orcadensis
- Mastocarpus stellatus - Krausserntang , a neophyte
- Melobesia membranacea
- Membranoptera alata - winged sea fish
- Monosporus pedicellatus
- Naccaria wiggii
- Nemalion helminthoides
- Neosiphonia harveyi , a neophyte
- Osmundea oederi
- Osmundea truncata
- Peyssonnelia dubyi
- Phycodrys rubens - red oak wrack
- Phyllophora crispa
- Phyllophora pseudoceranoides - thin red leaf
- Phyllophora traillii
- Phymatolithon calcareum
- Phymatolithon laevigatum - calcareous red alga
- Phymatolithon lenormandii - granular calcareous red algae
- Phymatolithon purpureum
- Plagiospora gracilis
- Platoma bairdii
- Plocamium cartilagineum - comb wrack
- Plumaria plumosa - dainty sea feather
- Pneophyllum fragile
- Pneophyllum myriocarpum
- Polyides rotunda - scissorswrack
- Polysiphonia elongata - Long-threaded tubular wrack
- Polysiphonia fucoides
- Polysiphonia nigra
- Polysiphonia stricta
- Polysiphonia violacea
- Porphyra dioica (as Porphyra laciniata by Kornmann / Sahling)
- Porphyra linearis
- Porphyra ochotensis
- Porphyra purpurea - purple leaf
- Porphyra umbilicalis - umbilical purple wrack
- Porphyropsis coccinea
- Pterothamnion plumula
- Pyropia leucosticta
- Pyropia yezoensis
- Rhodochorton floridulum
- Rhodochorton purpureum
- Rhodomela confervoides - reddish brown twig
- Rhodomela virgata
- Rhodophysema elegans
- Rhodothamniella floridula
- Rubrointrusa membranacea
- Scinaia furcellata subsp. scandinavica
- Spermothamnion repens
- Stylonema alsidii
- Titanoderma pustulatum
- Tsengia bairdii
- Vertebrata lanosa
Green algae (Chlorophyta)
- Acrochaete viridis
- Acrochaete repens
- Acrochaete wittrockii
- Acrosiphonia arcta - Common twig algae
- Acrosiphonia sonderi
- Blidingia chadefaudii
- Blidingia marginata
- Blidingia minima - small tubular wrack , small intestinal wrack
- Blidingia subsalsa
- Bolbocoleon piliferum
- Bryopsis hypnoides
- Bryopsis lyngbyei
- Capsosiphon fulvescens - Blonde spiral thread alga
- Chaetomorpha aerea
- Chaetomorpha melagonium - thick filamentous bristle hair
- Chaetomorpha tortuosa - dwarf thread alga
- Chlorochytrium cohnii
- Chlorochytrium willei
- Cladophora albida
- Cladophora lehmanniana
- Cladophora rupestris - rock twig algae
- Cladophora sericea - Silky twig algae
- Codium fragile , a neophyte
- Derbesia marina
- Epicladia flustrae
- Gayralia oxysperma
- Gomontia polyrhiza
- Hormiscia neglecta
- Hormiscia penicilliformis
- Kornmannia leptoderma
- Monostroma arcticum
- Monostroma grevillei - trumpet algae
- Ochlochaete hystrix
- Percursaria percursa
- Prasiola stipitata - Stalked Prasiola
- Pringsheimiella scutata
- Protomonostroma undulatum
- Pseudendoclonium dynamenae
- Rhizoclonium kochianum
- Rhizoclonium riparium
- Rosenvingiella constricta
- Rosenvingiella polyrhiza
- Spongomorpha aeruginosa - woolly twig algae
- Syncoryne pure
- Ulva clathrata
- Ulva compressa - flat intestinal wrack
- Ulva curvata
- Ulva flexuosa
- Ulva intestinalis - common intestinal wrack
- Ulva lactuca - sea lettuce
- Ulva linza - wavy intestinal tangle
- Ulva prolifera
- Ulva pseudocurvata
- Ulva tenera : endemic to Heligoland
- Ulva torta
- Ulvella lens
- Ulothrix flacca
- Ulothrix implexa
- Ulothrix speciosa
- Urospora neglecta
- Urospora penicilliformis
- Urospora wormskioldii
Individual evidence
- ↑ P. Kornmann, PH Sahling: Sea algae from Helgoland - Benthic green, brown and red algae. Biological Institute Helgoland, Hamburg 1983, ISSN 0017-9957
- ^ A b I. Bartsch, R. Kuhlenkamp: The marine macroalgae of Helgoland (North Sea): an annotated list of records between 1845 and 1999. Helgoland Marine Research 54, 2000, pp. 160-189. PDF file
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i Dirk Schories, Uwe Selig, Hendrik Schubert: Species and synonym list of the German marine macroalgae based on historical and recent records recent findings) . In: Rostock. Marine biologist Contribution , issue 21, 2009, pp. 7-135. PDF file
- ↑ Michael D. Guiry, GM Guiry. AlgaeBase . World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway , accessed March 15, 2012