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Basionym:—
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W.H.Adey, R.A.Townsend &amp; Boykins, 1982: 17
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Type Locality:—Palea Point, Hanauma Bay, Oahu,
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.
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Etymology:—
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= somewhat wrinkled (
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). The epithet refers to the rugulose, somewhat wrinkled nature of the thallus surface.
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Distribution:—The species has only been reported from Hawaii (
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Adey
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. 1982
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) and
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(
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,
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).
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Appearance and vegetative anatomy:—The following description is based solely on the prepared micro-slides of the
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Thalli thin and adherent, measuring up to 295 μm thick.
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material encrusting to only slightly lumpy and rugulose (see
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Adey
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1982
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).
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Thallus monomerous and dorsiventrally organised (
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). Medullary region consists of a central plumose (non-coaxial) core (
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) with square to rectangular cells that measure 617 μm in length and 411 μm in diameter. Cortical filaments comprise squat to rectangular cells that measure 310 μm in length and 514 μm in diameter. Cell fusions abundant (
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); secondary pit connections not seen. Subepithallial initials square to rectangular (
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) and measure 715 μm in length and 610 μm in diameter. Epithallial cells squat to elliptical, measure 29 μm in length and 310 μm in diameter and occur singly (up to 2 when shedding) (
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). Trichocytes common at that thallus surface, occur singly and paired (
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), with pairs separated within clusters by normal vegetative filaments. Individual trichocyte chains comprise 2 cells; a megacell and a support cell. Trichocytes rectangular to elongate and measure 1627 μm in length and 1015 μm in diameter. Buried trichocytes not observed. Data on vegetative characters in the
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are summarized in
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.
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Reproduction:—
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slide lacked gametangial material.
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Tetrasporangial conceptacles small (
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) and more-or-less flush with the thallus surface to slightly raised above it, measuring 136200 μm in external diameter. Conceptacle chambers elliptical to spherical, and measure 70104 μm in diameter and 3050 μm high, with the roof 2531 μm thick. Conceptacle roof 24 (mostly 3) cells thick, comprising a single squat to elliptical to spherical epithallial cell, a single columnar meristematic cell that is 2.55 times the length of the epithallial cell, and with or without 12 small inner cells (
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). Conceptacle floor located 612 cells below the surrounding thallus surface. A ring of enlarged, domed cells lines the base of the pore canal and is oriented more-or-less vertically, and do not project into the pore canal (
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). Remains of interspersed sterile filaments that gave rise to the pore canal cells often still visible (
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). Central columella not observed. Mature zonately divided tetrasporangia often fill the chamber completely (
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). Tetrasporangia measure 2043 μm in length and 727 μm in diameter. Bisporangia not observed. Tetrasporangial conceptacles shed individually although senescent buried conceptacles, containing apparently viable tetrasporangia were observed; infilling of buried conceptacles not observed.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF636F6A263BD2BFB81F93AFA75F7AD" blockId="18.[136,1452,1721,2071]" pageId="18" pageNumber="248">
Remarks:—The context within which
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<emphasis id="B93DEAE4A263BD2BF932F939FD02F969" box="[571,725,1722,1747]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="248">N. rugulosum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
was described (see
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;
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Adey
<emphasis id="B93DEAE4A263BD2BFF80F939FB6BF969" box="[1161,1212,1722,1747]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="248">et al</emphasis>
. 1982
</bibRefCitation>
) was at a time when the genus
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<emphasis id="B93DEAE4A263BD2BFA4DF95DFE25F94D" box="[324,498,1758,1783]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="248">Neogoniolithon</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
was considered to represent all Mastophoroid taxa bearing monomerous thalli that bore a predominantly coaxial core of medullary filaments. In contrast,
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<emphasis id="B93DEAE4A263BD2BF8CDF881FB9BF8A1" box="[964,1100,1794,1819]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="248">Hydrolithon</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
was considered to encompass all Mastophoroid taxa bearing dimerous thalli (
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). As described above,
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<emphasis id="B93DEAE4A263BD2BFF2AF8A5FB6AF885" box="[1059,1213,1830,1855]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="248">N. rugulosum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
has a predominantly plumose core of medullary filaments. It is now widely accepted that the thallus construction alone cannot be used to separate genera within the
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(
<bibRefCitation id="EFD84B07A263BD2BF96FF8EDFC62F83D" author="Penrose, D. &amp; Woelkerling, Wm. J." box="[614,949,1902,1927]" pageId="18" pageNumber="248" pagination="81 - 88" refId="ref13711" refString="Penrose, D. &amp; Woelkerling, Wm. J. (1992) A reappraisal of Hydrolithon and its relationship to Spongites (Corallinaceae, Rhodophyta). Phycologia 31: 81 - 88." type="journal article" year="1992">Penrose &amp; Woelkerling 1992</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation id="EFD84B07A263BD2BF8C8F8EDFBA8F83D" author="Kato, A. &amp; Baba, M. &amp; Suda, S." box="[961,1151,1902,1927]" pageId="18" pageNumber="248" pagination="662 - 672" refId="ref13235" refString="Kato, A., Baba, M. &amp; Suda, S. (2011) Revision of the Mastophoroideae (Corallinales, Rhodophyta) and polyphyly in nongeniculate species widely distributed on Pacific coral reefs. Journal of Phycology 47: 662 - 672." type="journal article" year="2011">
Kato
<emphasis id="B93DEAE4A263BD2BFF09F8EDFBE4F83D" box="[1024,1075,1902,1927]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="248">et al</emphasis>
. 2011
</bibRefCitation>
). Of particular importance within the family
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is the development of the tetrasporangial conceptacle roof (including the shape and orientation of the pore canal cells) and the trichocyte arrangement (
<bibRefCitation id="EFD84B07A263BD2BF870F835FBE4F875" author="Kato, A. &amp; Baba, M. &amp; Suda, S." box="[889,1075,1974,1999]" pageId="18" pageNumber="248" pagination="662 - 672" refId="ref13235" refString="Kato, A., Baba, M. &amp; Suda, S. (2011) Revision of the Mastophoroideae (Corallinales, Rhodophyta) and polyphyly in nongeniculate species widely distributed on Pacific coral reefs. Journal of Phycology 47: 662 - 672." type="journal article" year="2011">
Kato
<emphasis id="B93DEAE4A263BD2BF8B1F835FC3EF875" box="[952,1001,1974,1999]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="248">et al</emphasis>
. 2011
</bibRefCitation>
). In
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<emphasis id="B93DEAE4A263BD2BFF6DF835FB2BF875" box="[1124,1276,1974,1999]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="248">N. rugulosum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
the pore canals of tetrasporangial conceptacles are lined by a ring of conspicuous, enlarged (elongated) cells that are orientated more or less perpendicular to the roof and not by narrow filaments that tilt into the pore canal creating the appearance of
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B93DEAE4A262BD2AFB81F957FEEDF953" bold="true" box="[136,314,1748,1769]" pageId="19" pageNumber="249">FIGURES 4550.</emphasis>
Vegetative and tetrasporangial anatomy of
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<emphasis id="B93DEAE4A262BD2AF9D5F957FC09F953" box="[732,990,1748,1769]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="249">Neogoniolithon rugulosum</emphasis>
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(USNC 71-53-4).
</paragraph>
</caption>
<paragraph id="8BF636F6A262BD2AFB81F97BFA76F842" blockId="19.[136,1452,1748,2076]" pageId="19" pageNumber="249">
<emphasis id="B93DEAE4A262BD2AFB81F97BFEDEF8B7" bold="true" box="[136,265,1784,1805]" pageId="19" pageNumber="249">
<figureCitation id="13722A73A262BD2AFB81F97BFED4F8B7" box="[136,259,1784,1805]" captionStart="FIGURES 4550" captionStartId="19.[136,243,1748,1769]" captionTargetBox="[241,1350,182,1725]" captionTargetId="figure-15@19.[195,1391,172,1733]" captionTargetPageId="19" captionText="FIGURES 4550. Vegetative and tetrasporangial anatomy of Neogoniolithon rugulosum (USNC 71-53-4)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13641936" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/13641936/files/figure.png" pageId="19" pageNumber="249">FIGURE 45</figureCitation>
.
</emphasis>
Vertical section of the monomerous thallus showing cortical filaments (C) bearing a number of solitary and paired trichocytes at the surface (arrows), and plumose medullary filaments (M) (scale bar = 60 μm).
<emphasis id="B93DEAE4A262BD2AF883F896FBDFF890" bold="true" box="[906,1032,1813,1834]" pageId="19" pageNumber="249">
<figureCitation id="13722A73A262BD2AF883F896FBD2F890" box="[906,1029,1813,1834]" captionStart="FIGURES 4550" captionStartId="19.[136,243,1748,1769]" captionTargetBox="[241,1350,182,1725]" captionTargetId="figure-15@19.[195,1391,172,1733]" captionTargetPageId="19" captionText="FIGURES 4550. Vegetative and tetrasporangial anatomy of Neogoniolithon rugulosum (USNC 71-53-4)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13641936" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/13641936/files/figure.png" pageId="19" pageNumber="249">FIGURE 46</figureCitation>
.
</emphasis>
Magnified view of the outer thallus showing a single epithallial cell layer (arrowhead), a subepithallial initials (i), the first cortical cell (c), cell fusions (f) between adjacent cortical filaments, and a solitary and paired trichocytes (t) (scale bar = 15 μm).
<emphasis id="B93DEAE4A262BD2AF836F8D3FC16F8DF" bold="true" box="[831,961,1872,1893]" pageId="19" pageNumber="249">
<figureCitation id="13722A73A262BD2AF836F8D3FC6AF8DF" box="[831,957,1872,1893]" captionStart="FIGURES 4550" captionStartId="19.[136,243,1748,1769]" captionTargetBox="[241,1350,182,1725]" captionTargetId="figure-15@19.[195,1391,172,1733]" captionTargetPageId="19" captionText="FIGURES 4550. Vegetative and tetrasporangial anatomy of Neogoniolithon rugulosum (USNC 71-53-4)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13641936" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/13641936/files/figure.png" pageId="19" pageNumber="249">FIGURE 47</figureCitation>
.
</emphasis>
Vertical section of the lower portion of the thallus showing plumose medullary filaments with a cell fusion (f) between two adjacent filaments (scale bar = 15 μm).
<emphasis id="B93DEAE4A262BD2AFFD3F8EEFA8AF838" bold="true" box="[1242,1373,1901,1922]" pageId="19" pageNumber="249">
<figureCitation id="13722A73A262BD2AFFD3F8EEFA80F838" box="[1242,1367,1901,1922]" captionStart="FIGURES 4550" captionStartId="19.[136,243,1748,1769]" captionTargetBox="[241,1350,182,1725]" captionTargetId="figure-15@19.[195,1391,172,1733]" captionTargetPageId="19" captionText="FIGURES 4550. Vegetative and tetrasporangial anatomy of Neogoniolithon rugulosum (USNC 71-53-4)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13641936" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/13641936/files/figure.png" pageId="19" pageNumber="249">FIGURE 48</figureCitation>
.
</emphasis>
Section through a tetrasporangial conceptacle showing mature tetrasporangia (t) and the remains of an interspersed sterile filament (arrowhead) that gave rise to the conceptacle roof (scale bar = 30 μm).
<emphasis id="B93DEAE4A262BD2AF9C0F82BFC9BF807" bold="true" box="[713,844,1960,1981]" pageId="19" pageNumber="249">
<figureCitation id="13722A73A262BD2AF9C0F82BFC90F807" box="[713,839,1960,1981]" captionStart="FIGURES 4550" captionStartId="19.[136,243,1748,1769]" captionTargetBox="[241,1350,182,1725]" captionTargetId="figure-15@19.[195,1391,172,1733]" captionTargetPageId="19" captionText="FIGURES 4550. Vegetative and tetrasporangial anatomy of Neogoniolithon rugulosum (USNC 71-53-4)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13641936" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/13641936/files/figure.png" pageId="19" pageNumber="249">FIGURE 49</figureCitation>
.
</emphasis>
Oblique magnified view of a tetrasporangial conceptacle roof showing the ring of enlarged cells (arrowheads) lining the base and length of the pore canal, the remains of both a peripheral (left arrow) and an interspersed (right arrow) sterile filament that had given rise to the roof filaments, and a tetrasporangium (t) (scale bar = 15 μm).
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B93DEAE4A262BD2AFB81F784FED4F7A6" bold="true" box="[136,259,2055,2076]" pageId="19" pageNumber="249">
<figureCitation id="13722A73A262BD2AFB81F784FF29F7A6" box="[136,254,2055,2076]" captionStart="FIGURES 4550" captionStartId="19.[136,243,1748,1769]" captionTargetBox="[241,1350,182,1725]" captionTargetId="figure-15@19.[195,1391,172,1733]" captionTargetPageId="19" captionText="FIGURES 4550. Vegetative and tetrasporangial anatomy of Neogoniolithon rugulosum (USNC 71-53-4)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13641936" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/13641936/files/figure.png" pageId="19" pageNumber="249">FIGURE 50</figureCitation>
.
</emphasis>
Magnified view of the roof of a tetrasporangial conceptacle showing the roof comprised of mostly 3 cells (e, i, c) (scale bar = 15 μm).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF636F6A265BD2DFB81FF23FC32FED7" blockId="20.[136,1452,160,725]" pageId="20" pageNumber="250">
papillae. Also, the persistence of sterile filaments interspersed amongst the tetrasporangia provides evidence that
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<emphasis id="B93DEAE4A265BD2DFE9BFF23FED7FF67" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="250">N. rugulosum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
has a tetrasporangial conceptacle roof development that is more similar to that of the genus
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<emphasis id="B93DEAE4A265BD2DFE2AFF47FA7CFF67" box="[1315,1451,196,221]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="250">Hydrolithon</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
than of the genus
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<emphasis id="B93DEAE4A265BD2DFA52FF6BFDDEFEBB" box="[347,521,232,257]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="250">Neogoniolithon</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. Combined, these features circumscribe
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<emphasis id="B93DEAE4A265BD2DF8E9FF6BFBABFEBB" box="[992,1148,232,257]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="250">N. rugulosum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
to the genus
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<emphasis id="B93DEAE4A265BD2DFE15FF6BFA73FEBB" box="[1308,1444,232,257]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="250">Hydrolithon</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. Furthermore, the structure of the tetrasporangial conceptacle roof (a single squat to elliptical to spherical epithallial cell, a single columnar meristematic cell that is 2.55 times the length of the epithallial cell, and with or without 12 small inner cells) suggests that the species is synonymous with
<taxonomicName id="4C494D75A265BD2DF846FED7FC09FED7" authorityName="Keats &amp; Y. M. Chamberlain. In" authorityYear="1994" baseAuthorityName="Foslie" box="[847,990,340,365]" family="Corallinaceae" genus="Hydrolithon" kingdom="Plantae" order="Cryptonemiales" pageId="20" pageNumber="250" phylum="Rhodophyta" rank="species" species="samoense">
<emphasis id="B93DEAE4A265BD2DF846FED7FC09FED7" box="[847,990,340,365]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="250">H. samoënse</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
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<bibRefCitation id="EFD84B07A265BD2DFBB4FEFBFDC8FE2B" author="Keats, D. W. &amp; Chamberlain, Y. M." box="[189,543,376,401]" pageId="20" pageNumber="250" pagination="8 - 21" refId="ref13282" refString="Keats, D. W. &amp; Chamberlain, Y. M. (1994) Three species of Hydrolithon (Rhodophyta, Corallinaceae): Hydrolithon onkodes (Heydrich) Penrose and Woelkerling, Hydrolithon superficiale sp. nov., and H. samoense (Foslie) comb. nov. from South Africa. South African Journal of Botany 60: 8 - 21." type="journal article" year="1994">Keats and Chamberlain (1994)</bibRefCitation>
suggested that
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<emphasis id="B93DEAE4A265BD2DF9DFFEFBFCA5FE2B" box="[726,882,376,401]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="250">N. rugulosum</emphasis>
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was probably conspecific with
<taxonomicName id="4C494D75A265BD2DFFEDFEFBFAA0FE2B" authorityName="Keats &amp; Y. M. Chamberlain. In" authorityYear="1994" baseAuthorityName="Foslie" box="[1252,1399,376,401]" family="Corallinaceae" genus="Hydrolithon" kingdom="Plantae" order="Cryptonemiales" pageId="20" pageNumber="250" phylum="Rhodophyta" rank="species" species="samoense">
<emphasis id="B93DEAE4A265BD2DFFEDFEFBFAA0FE2B" box="[1252,1399,376,401]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="250">H. samoënse</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, but stated that because the tetrasporangial conceptacles were larger (160200 μm) in the former species, and because the conceptacle roof structure they considered characteristic, was not visible in the published description of
<taxonomicName id="4C494D75A265BD2DFE04FE43FA72FE63" authorityName="W. H. Adey, R. A. Townsend &amp; Boykins" authorityYear="1982" box="[1293,1445,448,473]" family="Corallinaceae" genus="Neogoniolithon" kingdom="Plantae" order="Cryptonemiales" pageId="20" pageNumber="250" phylum="Rhodophyta" rank="species" species="rugulosum">
<emphasis id="B93DEAE4A265BD2DFE04FE43FA72FE63" box="[1293,1445,448,473]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="250">N. rugulosum</emphasis>
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, this could not be verified. Examination of a
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slide of
<taxonomicName id="4C494D75A265BD2DF814FE67FC64FE47" authorityName="W. H. Adey, R. A. Townsend &amp; Boykins" authorityYear="1982" box="[797,947,484,509]" family="Corallinaceae" genus="Neogoniolithon" kingdom="Plantae" order="Cryptonemiales" pageId="20" pageNumber="250" phylum="Rhodophyta" rank="species" species="rugulosum">
<emphasis id="B93DEAE4A265BD2DF814FE67FC64FE47" box="[797,947,484,509]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="250">N. rugulosum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
has shown that
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<emphasis id="B93DEAE4A265BD2DFF57FE67FB23FE47" box="[1118,1268,484,509]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="250">N. rugulosum</emphasis>
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more than likely has the tetrasporangial conceptacle roof development characteristic of the genus
<taxonomicName id="4C494D75A265BD2DFF1DFD8BFB4BFD9B" box="[1044,1180,520,545]" family="Corallinaceae" genus="Hydrolithon" kingdom="Plantae" order="Cryptonemiales" pageId="20" pageNumber="250" phylum="Rhodophyta" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B93DEAE4A265BD2DFF1DFD8BFB4BFD9B" box="[1044,1180,520,545]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="250">Hydrolithon</emphasis>
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, that the tetrasporangial conceptacle dimensions do not differ between the two taxa (
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) and more importantly, that the former species has the tetrasporangial conceptacle roof structure characteristic of
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<emphasis id="B93DEAE4A265BD2DF84AFDD3FC05FDD3" box="[835,978,592,617]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="250">H. samoënse</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. Incidentally,
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Adey
<emphasis id="B93DEAE4A265BD2DFFBAFDD3FB32FDD3" box="[1203,1253,592,617]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="250">et al</emphasis>
. (1982: 15)
</bibRefCitation>
made mention of
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<emphasis id="B93DEAE4A265BD2DFA00FDF7FE76FD37" box="[265,417,628,653]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="250">N. caribaeum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
as a “pair species” to
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<emphasis id="B93DEAE4A265BD2DF990FDF7FCE5FD37" box="[665,818,628,653]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="250">N. rugulosum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, a species this research has also shown to be conspecific with
<taxonomicName id="4C494D75A265BD2DFBCBFD1BFE85FD0B" authorityName="Keats &amp; Y. M. Chamberlain. In" authorityYear="1994" baseAuthorityName="Foslie" box="[194,338,664,689]" family="Corallinaceae" genus="Hydrolithon" kingdom="Plantae" order="Cryptonemiales" pageId="20" pageNumber="250" phylum="Rhodophyta" rank="species" species="samoense">
<emphasis id="B93DEAE4A265BD2DFBCBFD1BFE85FD0B" box="[194,338,664,689]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="250">H. samoënse</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. Consequently
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<emphasis id="B93DEAE4A265BD2DF90AFD1BFD4AFD0B" box="[515,669,664,689]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="250">N. rugulosum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is also considered a heterotypic synonym for
<taxonomicName id="4C494D75A265BD2DFFA1FD1BFAEEFD0B" authorityName="Keats &amp; Y. M. Chamberlain. In" authorityYear="1994" baseAuthorityName="Foslie" box="[1192,1337,664,689]" family="Corallinaceae" genus="Hydrolithon" kingdom="Plantae" order="Cryptonemiales" pageId="20" pageNumber="250" phylum="Rhodophyta" rank="species" species="samoense">
<emphasis id="B93DEAE4A265BD2DFFA1FD1BFAEEFD0B" box="[1192,1337,664,689]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="250">H. samoënse</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, the latter species having nomenclatural priority.
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