Description

Representative specimens examined: — BRAZIL. Bahia: Ilha de Itaparica, Vera Cruz, Praia da Penha, 25 / XI / 2007, Santos (HUEFS 130889). Geographic distribution along the west coast of Atlantic Ocean: — North Carolina, Florida, Isla Mujeres, Yucatán Peninsula, Aruba, Bonaire, Bahamas, Bermuda, Cuba, Grenada, Hispaniola, Virgin Islands, Venezuela (Howe 1920, Taylor 1960, Vroman & Stegenga 1988, Ganesan 1989, Schneider & Searles 1991, Suárez 2005, Mendoza-González et al. 2007, Dawes & Mathieson 2008) and Brazil (this study). Comments: — Chroodactylon Hansgirg (1885: 14) is a widely distributed genus in tropical marine and temperate environments, estuaries, as well as fresh-water areas (Brodie & Nielsen 2005). Both the genus and the species C. ornatum are reported here for the first time as occurring in the American South Atlantic. The species had previously been recorded from the coast of Connecticut (USA) to Venezuela, including the Caribbean Islands (Wynne 2011, Guiry & Guiry 2011).

Common Names

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Plantae

Phylum: Rhodophyta

Class: Stylonematophyceae

Order: Stylonematales

Family: Stylonemataceae

Genus: Chroodactylon

Species: Chroodactylon ornatum (C.Agardh) Basson