Miuraea migitae, a new record of the order Bangiales (Bangiophyceae, Rhodophyta) from Korea

Abstract

We found specimens of foliose Bangiales from the subtidal zone of Udo, Jeju Island, Korea. In molecular analyses of rbcL sequences, these Korean specimens were almost identical to Miuraea migitae from Osaka, Japan. In the morphological comparison, Korean specimens were consistent with habitat, color, and vegetative characteristics with the description of M. migitae. This is the first record of M. migitae outside the type locality and Nagasaki in Japan. This study confirms that new or unrecorded species of the order Bangiales may be discovered from subtidal habitats.

An appraisal of the genus Pyropia (Bangiales, Rhodophyta) from southern Africa based on a multi-gene phylogeny, morphology and ecology, including the description of Pyropia meridionalis sp. nov.

“…Many species have been discovered in the Southern Hemisphere, and species in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres tend to be regionally confined (Nelson et al, 2001(Nelson et al, , 2006Nelson, 2013;Brodie et al, 2007Brodie et al, , 2008Mateo-Cid et al, 2012;Nelson andD'Archino, 2014, Ramirez et al, 2014;Guillemin et al, 2016;Reddy et al, 2018). However, many regions in the Southern Hemisphere and many subtidal habitats in both the Southern and Northern Hemispheres remain relatively unexplored and may harbour even greater diversity (Broom et al, 2004(Broom et al, , 2010Sutherland et al, 2011;Koh et al, 2016;Dumilag and Yap, 2018;Koh and Kim, 2018;Reddy et al, 2018).…”