Halymenia durvillei, Branched halymenia : fisheries

Halymenia durvillei   Bory de Saint-Vincent

Branched halymenia

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Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | CoL | ITIS | WoRMS

Florideophyceae | Halymeniales | Halymeniaceae

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Sessile; depth range 30 - 51 m (Ref. 102158).  Tropical

Distribution Countries | FAO areas | Ecosystems | Occurrences | Introductions

Indo-West Pacific.

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm

Short description Morphology

Thalli large and bushy, red-orange or purple in colour, soft cartilaginous and slimy when fresh, attached to rocky substrates by a discoid holdfast. Stipe short, supporting 2 to 4 main axes which are 5 to 15 mm wide, branching pinnately-alternately 4 to 5 times. Branches flattened, their diameter decreases with the increasing degree of branching. Ultimate branchlets slender and linear with acuminate tips, sometimes forcipate. Margins of the fronds serrate, surfaces of the axis provided with few spine-like projections. Cross-section of frond shows ganglion-like cells in the medulla connecting the other cells. Cortex consisting of more than 5 layers of very small ovoid or elongated pigmented cells. Thalli to about 35 cm in height (Ref. 80758).

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

Used for human consumption; source of carrageenan (Ref. 80758). Commonly found attached to rocks in lower intertidal to upper subtidal areas which are moderately exposed to wave action (Ref. 80758).

Life cycle and mating behavior Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae

Main reference References | Coordinator | Collaborators

Guiry, M.D. and G.M. Guiry 2009 AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org; searched on 14 April 2009. (Ref. 80701)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-1)

  Not Evaluated 

CITES status (Ref. 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless (Ref. 80758)

Human uses

Fisheries: commercial
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Internet sources

BHL | BOLD Systems | CISTI | DiscoverLife | FAO(Publication : search) | Fishipedia | GenBank (genome, nucleotide) | GloBI | Gomexsi | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | PubMed | AlgaeBase | Tree of Life | Wikipedia (Go, Search) | Zoological Record

Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 23.3 - 28.7, mean 27.6 (based on 245 cells).

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