Marine Algae of the Greek West Coast

Abstract

The main purpose of this research was to study the marine flora in the midlittoral and upper mfralittoral zones of the Greek west coast. About 175 species were noticed in the 11 localities selected for study: 33 green algae, 36 brown algae, 101 red algae, 2 blue-green algae and 3 marine phanerogams. The ratio R/P = 2.86 indicates a more boreal than subtropical type of Vegetation.

Seaweeds of the Greek coasts. I. Phaeophyceae

“…This rare Mediterranean endemic has been reported from various localities in the Aegean and Ionian Seas (Gerloff & Geissler, 1974;Haritonidis & Tsekos, 1976;Tsekos et al, 1982). Nevertheless, Alongi et al (2002) reported that the only herbarium specimens from Greece (Attica), located at the Riksherbarium in Stockholm and labelled as C. squarrosa, belonged to C. corniculata.…”

“…Silva = Sorocarpus uvaeformis (Lyngbye) Pringsheim Athanasiadis (1987) excluded the record of Politis (1936, as Sorocarpus uvaeformis Pringsheim) from Attica, since this cold-temperate alga was not known elsewhere in the Mediterranean. Botrytella micromora was previously reported in the Ionian Sea by Haritonidis & Tsekos (1976) and Tsekos & Haritonidis (1977, as Sorocarpus micromorus), but without descriptions or illustrations. Since then, this North Atlantic-Arctic species has been reported from the strait of Dardanelles (Taskin, 2008, Fig.…”

“…The only Mediterranean records of C. baccata originate from Greece, reported by Haritonidis & Tsekos (1976), and Tsekos et al (1982) from localities both in the Ionian and the Aegean Seas. In our opinion, these records are misidentifications, since this species is restricted to the Atlantic Ocean (Ribera et al, 1992;Gómez Garreta et al, 2001b).…”

“…From the early 20 th century, Politis (1925Politis ( , 1932Politis ( , 1953, Katsikopoulos (1939) and Diannelidis (1935Diannelidis ( , 1950Diannelidis ( , 1953, also contributed to seaweed research along the Greek coasts. However, the most important studies have been carried out after the 1970s, mainly in the Aegean Sea (Anagnostidis, 1968;Nizamuddin & Lehnberg, 1970;Coppejans, 1974;Diannelidis et al, 1977;Haritonidis, 1978;Tsekos et al, 1982;Athanasiadis, 1987;Lazaridou, 1994;Chryssovergis, 1995;Catra & Giardina, 2009;Tsiamis et al, 2010a), but less in the Ionian Sea (Haritonidis & Tsekos, 1976;Schnetter & Schnetter, 1981;Tsirika & Haritonidis, 2005).…”

Oil pollution effects to marine benthos in a Greek Bay

“…The purpose of this study is to assess the benthic communities' state three and a half years after the event, and compare it with that described by Haritonidis and Tsekos (1976).…”