BIOLOGIYA MORYA, 2016, Vol. 42, No. 6, pp. 419-425

The distribution of representatives of the genus Neoabbottiella (Rhodophyta: Halymeniales) in the Russian Far Eastern seas and the taxonomic status of N. valentinae N. Klochkova et Pisareva, 2013

© 2016 N. A. Lopatina¹, N. G. Klochkova², T. A. Klochkova^{2, 3}

¹Kamchatka Branch of the Pacific Geographical Institute, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences (KB PGI) FEB RAS, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatski, Partizanskaya 6, 683000 Russia;
²Kamchatka State Technical University (KamchatGTU), Petropavlovsk-Kamchatski, Klyuchevskaya 35, 683003 Russia;
³Department of Biology, Kongju National University, Kongju, 314-701, Korea

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The new information on distribution of the red algae Neoabbottiella in the Russian Far East changes the concept on the range of these algae and the preferred temperatures. A comparison of N. valentinae N. Klochkova et Pisareva with Schizymenia dubyi f. palmata Yamada collected by Y. Yamada from Urup Island and stored with its type and paratypes in the collection of Hokkaido University Museum (Sapporo, Japan) showed their conspecificity. Based on the data, N. valentinae was recognized as a synonym of Schizymenia dubyi f. palmata. Since this form does not possess the main generic feature of the genus Schizymenia and at the same time has well-expressed generic features of Neoabbottiella, the form S. dubyi f. palmata is transferred to this genus with the name N. palmata (Yamada) N. Klochkova et Pisareva.

Key words: Rhodophyta, blade red algae, Far Eastern algoflora, genus Neoabbottiella, Neoabbottiella palmata, Schizymenia dubyi f. palmata.