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

Young Ho Koh, Hyung Woo Lee, Myung Sook Kim
2016 Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences  
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
more » ... species of the order Bangiales may be discovered from subtidal habitats.
doi:10.1186/s41240-016-0037-5 fatcat:v3ufbqkhhrhzxgys3nvwlf2iby