Marine Algae from the Tropical Atlantic Ocean, V: Algae from the Lesser Antilles
Marine Algae from the Tropical Atlantic Ocean, V: Algae from the Lesser Antilles
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来自热带大西洋的海藻,V:来自小安的列斯群岛的藻类
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1962
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W. Taylor
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W. Taylor
In preparing a general account of the marine algae of the West Indies and neighboring coasts the writer has had many occasions to note apparent discontinuities of range, or ranges of conspicuous algae much less extensive that it seems reasonable to expect. One who knows the West Indian algal flora well discounts these deceptive ranges, but is nevertheless restricted in the range he can cite for species. The algae of very few places in the West Indies or nearby have been thoroughly studied; even those places that have been visited and the algae superficially studied are widely scattered. The marine algae of the Virgin Islands (while still the Danish West Indics) were thoroughly studied and described by B~rgesen (1913-20), and his papers are the most informative of any dealing with West Indian algae. Famous among the algal works on the Lesser Antilles are the books based on the collections of A. Schramm and H. Maze in Guadeloupe (Schrsmm and Maze 1865, 1866; Maze and Schramm 1870-77), the identifications having been made by the brothers Crouan, well-known phycologists of Brest. These are rare books in the original issues. The collections were made with great discernment, but the identifications took little account of the great variability of many of these plants, and the publications while proposing scores of new species seldom provided descriptions of the plants. It appears that no definitive set of specimens was set aside; several institutions possess considerable series of them but the specimens under a given collection number are not always identical as to species. Hamel and Hamel..Joukov supplemented these works later (1929, 1931), as did Questel (1951). Grieve gave a brief list of Dominican algae (1909). The algae of Martinique have often been collected but reported only in scattered notes. A study of the algae of Barbados (Vickers 1905, 1908) yielded a rather limited list and a handsome atlas of selected Chlorophyceae and Phaeophyceae. The writer has reported on small collections from the Lesser Antilles in a few papers (1929, 1940, 1942). Lists