Macroalgas bentónicas de Faro de Bucerías, Michoacán, México

Abstract

A TOTAL OF 68 SPECIES OF MACROALGAE WERE IDENTIFIED IN FARO DE BUCERIAS, MICHOACAN, MEXICO: 12 CHLOROPHYTA, 15 PHAEOPHYTA AND 41 RHODOPHYTA. MICHOACAN IS A TRANSITIONAL ZONE WITHIN TROPICAL PACIFIC MEXICO IN PHYCOGEOGRAPHIC TERMS. DOMINANTS SPECIES ARE JANIA TENELLA, CHNOOSPORA MINIMA, TAYLORIELLA DICTYURUS, CENTROCERAS CLAVULATUM, GRIFFITHSIA PACIFICA AND HERPOSIPHONIA LITTORALIS. SPECIES WITH THE WIDEST DISTRIBUTION IN TROPICCAL PACIFIC MEXICO TO DATE ARE ULVA LACTUCA, PADINA DURVILLAEI, CHNOOSPORA MINIMA, CENTROCERAS CLAVULATUM AND CHAMPIA PARVULA. CODIUM GEPPEI IS REPORTED FOR THE FIRST TIME IN PACIFIC MEXICO. FIFTEEN SPECIES (22%) ARE NEW RECORDS FOR TROPICAL PACIFIC MEXICO AND 23 (33.8%) ARE REPORTED FOR THE FIRST TIME FROM MICHOACAN. EIGHT ALGAL "ASSOCIATIONS" WERE DETECTED. AHNFELTIOPSIS SMITHII (W.R. TAYLOR) DRECKMANN ET I. STOUT, COMB. NOV. IS PROPOSED.