Desmsrestia viridis occurs in high latitude cold waters in both the northern and southern hemisphere, and also occasionaly in warmer water. The greatest diversity is in the Antartic, where several species of Desmarestiales dominate the seaweed flora. It is common on rocky shores in low intertidal and shallow subtidal habitats. D. viridis is rapidly injured by the release of concentrated acid from its cells (triggered by environmental stress). This could limit its vertical distribution in the intertidal zone and confine the species to regions of constant water circulation (Smith, 1944)
Distribution (World Register of Marine Species)
Black Sea
ERMS scope
Mediterranean Sea
North West Atlantic
Wemeldinge
Detailed distribution with sources
(as Desmarestia viridis (O.F. Müller) J.V. Lamouroux)
Arctic: Canada (Arctic) (Taylor 1957, Lee 1980).
Ireland: Antrim (Adams 1907, Guiry 1978, Morton 1994), Cork (Guiry 1978, Cullinane & Whelan 1983), Derry (Morton 1994), Donegal (Guiry 1978), Down (Guiry 1978, Morton 1994), Dublin (Sanders 1860, Guiry 1978), Kerry (Morton 1980, Whelan & Cullinane 1985), Mayo (Cotton 1912, Guiry 1978), Waterford (Guiry 1977, Guiry 1978), Wexford (Cotton 1913, Norton 1970, Guiry 1978).
Europe: Baltic Sea (Nielsen et al. 1995), Britain (Newton 1931, Fletcher 1987, Hardy & Guiry 2003), E. Greenland (Lund 1959, Pedersen 1976), Faroes (Irvine 1982, Nielsen & Gunnarsson 2001), France (Feldmann 1954, Ben Maiz, Boudouresque, Lauret & Riouall 1988, Ribera et al. 1992, Verlaque 2001, Dizerbo & Herpe 2007), Helgoland (Bartsch & Kuhlenkamp 2000), Iceland (Caram & Jónsson 1972), Ireland (Adams 1907, Cotton 1912, Cotton 1913, Guiry 1977, Guiry 1978, Whelan & Cullinane 1985, Fletcher 1987, Morton 1994), Netherlands (Stegenga & Mol 1983, Stegenga, Kaaremans & Simons 2007), Norway (Rueness 1997), Scandinavia (Athanasiadis 1996), Spitsbergen (Vinogradova 1995), Sweden (Kylin 1947, Tolstoy & Österlund 2003).
North America: Alaska (Lindstrom 1977, Scagel et al. 1989), Aleutian Islands (Mondragon & Mondragon 2003), Baja California (Mondragon & Mondragon 2003), British Columbia (Scagel et al. 1989), California (Scagel et al. 1989), Connecticut (Van Patten 2006), New Jersey (Taylor 1957), Newfoundland (Taylor 1957), Washington (Scagel et al. 1989).
Central America: México (Pacific) (Pedroche et al. 2008).
South America: Chile (Mondragon & Mondragon 2003).
Asia: China (Tseng 1984), Commander Islands (Selivanova & Zhigadlova 1997), Japan (Yoshida, Nakajima & Nakata 1990, Yoshida 1998), Korea (Lee & Kang 2001).
Antarctic and the subantarctic islands: Antarctica (Papenfuss 1964).
(as Dichloria viridis (O.F. Müller) Greville)
Ireland: Antrim (Drummond 1837).
Europe: Ireland (Drummond 1837).
(as Desmarestia pacifica Setchell & N.L. Gardner)
North America: Isla Guadalupe (Setchell & Gardner 1930).
(as Desmarestia filamentosa E.Y. Dawson)
North America: Gulf of California (Dawson 1944).
Literature cited:
Smith, GM, 1944. Marine Algae of the Monterrey Peninsula. Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif; 622 pp.
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