Pyropia acanthophora (E.C.Oliveira & Coll) M.C.Oliveira, D.Milstein & E.C.Oliveira

Dumilag, Richard V., Aguinaldo, Zae-Zae A., Mintu, Cynthia B., Quinto, Myrna P., Ame, Evelyn C., Andres, Rolando C., Monotilla, Wilberto D., Yap, Sandra L., Cao, Ernelea P., Vital, Pierangeli G. & Fontanilla, Ian Kendrich C., 2017, A review of the current taxonomic status of foliose Bangiales (Rhodophyta) in the Philippines, Phytotaxa 312 (1), pp. 47-59 : 53

Pyropia acanthophora (E.C.Oliveira & Coll) M.C.Oliveira, D.Milstein & E.C.Oliveira in Sutherland et al. 2011:

1142 [ Rivera 2014, Dumilag & Aguinaldo 2017]

Type: SPF 5170, Ubatuba, São Paulo, Brazil, 25.x.1973, colls. E. C. Oliveira & J. Coll

Philippine record of distribution: Camiguin Is., Ilocos Norte (Burgos, Pagudpud), Cagayan (Aparri, Claveria, Sta. Praxedes, Sta. Ana), Pamocton Island.

Note: Confirmed Py. acanthophora materials from the Philippines include populations with multiple haplotypes that are closely associated to other native conspecifics found in the Indo-Pacific region. So far, Py. acanthophora is the most widely distributed foliose Bangiales in the Philippines. Phylogenetic and haplotype analyses showed that populations from thirteen sites in the northern Philippines showed high genetic variation characteristic of endemic populations. The genetic structure of Philippine populations of Py. acanthophora exhibited a chaotic patchiness pattern wherein populations displayed highly site-exclusive haplotypes with wide genetic variability but lacked corresponding local geographic patterns ( Dumilag & Aguinaldo 2017).