Marine Algae of the Commander Islands Preliminary Remarks on the Revision of the Flora. III. Rhodophyta

The genus Leptophytum (Melobesioideae, Corallinales, Rhodophyta) on the Pacific coast of North America

“…More recently the genus has been studied in the British Isles and Atlantic France (Chamberlain 1990: Chamberlain & Irvine 1994. South Africa ) and alsit rccitided from Japan (Adey et al 1976) and Pacific Russia (Selivanova & Zhigadlova 1997;Seijvanova 2002). Other putative records of Lcptoph\ttim are based on species rect)rds or descriptions under other generic names Irotn Atlantic France and Spain (Adey & Adey 1973, * Corresponding aulhur (alhunfe'^murbot.gu.se).…”

Marine Benthic Algae of the Commander Islands (Pacific Coast of Russia) with Checklist Revised in 2012

“…The present paper summarizes new information on the marine macrophytic algae of the Commander Islands that has appeared since our previous revision of the flora 15 years ago [5][6][7].…”

“…At present, the marine flora of the Commander Islands is known to contain 187 species (36 Chlorophyta; 38 Ochrophyta, class Phaeophyceae and 113 Rhodophyta), 44 are new records since our previous list (see : Selivanova and Zhigadlova [5][6][7]). The former checklist contained 149 species, however later several species had been synonymized and the number of algae decreased.…”

“…We included Gloiocladia guiryi described from the Commander Islands [14][15][16] as a new record in our list for the reason that our revised checklist summarizes all available information appeared after the first revision of the Islands' flora [5][6][7].…”

“…The Islands' flora has been studied more thoroughly and described in many publications by Russian and foreign authors [1][2][3][4] including our works [5][6][7], where we presented preliminary results of the revision of the marine algal flora. Further studies were presented in our publications [8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24], but the majority of these papers were published in Russian, some of them by local publishing houses, so they are not readily available to phycologists outside of Russia.…”