A survey of the benthic aquatic flora in transitional water systems of Greece and Cyprus (Mediterranean Sea)

Environmental Variability and Macrophyte Assemblages in Coastal Lagoon Types of Western Greece (Mediterranean Sea)

“…However, in extreme salinity conditions, a drop of species richness is expected [58]. From the seven species of phanerogams that have been signaled in the Mediterranean [59], three of them: Z. noltii, R. cirrhosa and C. nodosa have been formed extensive meadows in the studied areas [35] and support four macrophyte assemblages. The structure and composition of these four macrophyte assemblages distinguished in the coastal lagoons of Western Greece was determined by the abiotic gradients [1] and the degree of isolation by the sea [7].…”

“…This type includes Tsoukalio and Logarou lagoons (Amvarkikos Gulf) and Kleisova lagoon that belongs to the lagoonal complex system of Messolonghi-Aitoliko; (c) Type III includes small, shallow and restricted lagoons with euhaline salinity regime and medium seawater intrusion (Araxos lagoon). Detailed information is reported in Christia and Papastergiadou [2] and Christia et al [9,35]. According to Christia et al [9] the typological classification of lagoons also revealed a fourth type which includes Kaiafas but this has been omitted from the current research due to its peculiar environmental characteristics: small, deep, mesohaline lagoon with a wide barrier and a unique macrophyte assemblage composed by Potamogeton pectinatus and Chara hispida f. corfuensis.…”

“…A total of 38 macrophytic taxa [35] were recorded in the three studied lagoon types: three angiosperm species (Z. noltii, R. cirrhosa, C. nodosa), one Charophyte (Lamprothamnium papulosum) and 34 macroalgae (Rhodophytes, Chlorophytes, Ochrophytes). In the lagoon Type I, 8 macrophyte species were identified; 25% belonged to the Magnoliophyta phylum, 62.5% to Chlorophyta and 12.5% to Rhodophyta and Charophyta ( Figure 3).…”

Seaweeds of the Greek coasts. II. Ulvophyceae

“…Lamouroux Athanasiadis, 1987Lazaridou, 1994Bitis, 1988 Blastophysa = Chaetomorpha vasta (Kützing) Kützing Athanasiadis, 1987Lazaridou, 1994Tsirika & Haritonidis, 2005 Chaetomorpha crassa (C. Agardh) Kützing Haritonidis, 1978Diannelidis et al, 1977Schnetter & Schnetter, 1981 Athanasiadis, 1987Lazaridou, 1994Bitis, 1988 Cladophora dalmatica Kützing = Cladophora arachnoidea Schiffner = Aegagropila conglobata (Kützing) Kützing Athanasiadis, 1987Lazaridou, 1994Bitis, 1988 http://epublishing. = Rhizoclonium salinum Kützing = Lola implexa (Dillwyn) G. Hamel Anagnostidis, 1968Diapoulis, 1983Schnetter & Schnetter, 1981 Rhizoclonium tortuosum (Dillwyn) Kützing (10) Chryssovergis, 1995Tsiamis et al, 2013bChristia et al, 2011 Siphonocladus pusillus (C. Valonia aegagropila C. Agardh --Christia et al, 2011 (12) Valonia macrophysa Kützing Haritonidis, 1978Lazaridou, 1994Tsirika & Haritonidis, 2005 Valonia utricularis (Roth) C. Agardh Athanasiadis, 1987Lazaridou, 1994Schnetter & Schnetter, 1981 Valonia ventricosa J. Agardh -Giaccone, 1968aGiaccone, 1968b Distribution: Commonly encountered in both the Western and Eastern Mediterranean Sea (Gallardo et al, 1993).…”

“…The single record from the Ionian Sea by Christia et al (2011) refers to a brackish-water specimen, while no description or illustrations were given.…”