CORALLINALES OF MALVINAS ISLANDS - BIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS

Recent studies on Corallinales of Malvinas Islands concluded that crus tose calcareous algae are more abundant than geniculate ones. Hydrolit hon represents 53% of the specimens with four species (H. consociatum, H. discoideum, H. falklandicum, H. subantarcticum); Pseudolithophyllu m 21,8% with one taxon (P. fuegianum); Synarthrophyton 12,3% with two species (S. neglectum, S. patena); Clathromorphum (5,8% with three spe cies (CI. lemoineanum, CI. annulatum, Cl. variabile comb, nov.); Mesop hyllum 4,9% with one species (M. fuegianum); Bossiella 1,1% with one t axon (B. orbigniana ssp. orbigniana); Corallina 1,1% with two species (C. officinalis, C. elongata). These taxa present a characteristic ver tical distribution in both intertidal and subtidal.