Colpomenia sinuosa

Colpomenia sinuosa
Sea Bubble (Colpomenia sinuosa), Cabrillo National Monument tidepools, San Diego, California, USA
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Chromalveolata
Phylum: Heterokontophyta
Class: Phaeophyceae
Order: Scytosiphonales
Family: Scytosiphonaceae
Genus: Colpomenia
Species: C. sinuosa
Binomial name
Colpomenia sinuosa
(Mertens ex Roth) Derbès & Solier in Castagne 1851
Subspecies
  • Colpomenia sinuosa var. sinuosa
  • Colpomenia sinuosa var. tuberculata
Synonyms
  • Ulva sinuosa Mertens ex Roth 1806
  • Encoelium sinuosum (Mertens ex Roth) C.Agardh 1820
  • Stilophora sinuosa (Mertens ex Roth) C.Agardh 1827
  • Asperococcus sinuosus (Mertens ex Roth) Bory de Saint-Vincent 1832
  • Asperococcus sinuosus (C.Agardh) Zanardini 1841
  • Hydroclathrus sinuosus (Mertens ex Roth) Zanardini 1843,

Colpomenia sinuosa, the oyster thief or sinuous ballweed, is a brown alga species in the genus Colpomenia. It is the type species of its genus. It is found throughout South Africa and is widespread around Australia and overseas.

C. sinuosa contains the C6-C4-C6 phenolic compound colpol.[1]

See also

References

  1. Colpol, a New Cytotoxic C6-C4-C6 Metabolite from the Alga Colpomenia sinuosa. Dalia Green, Yoel Kashman and Ahron Miroz, J. Nat. Prod., 1993, volume 56, issue 7, pages 1201–1202, doi:10.1021/np50097a033

Future Readings

Lee, Kyung Min; Boo, Sung Min; Kain, Joanna; Sherwood, Alison (February 2013). "Cryptic diversity and biogeography of the widespread brown alga Colpomenia sinuosa (Ectocarpales, Phaeophyceae)". Botanica Marina 56 (1): 15–25. doi:10.1515/bot-2012-0211. 

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