Author/Editor		Battelli, Claudio
Title		Prispevki k poznavanju makrobentoških alg slovenskega obalnega morja: rod Cladophora (Chlorophyta)
Translated title		A contribution to the knowledge of macrobenthic algae of the coastal waters of Slovenia: genus Cladophora (Chlorophyta)
Type		članek
Source		Annales Koper
Vol. and No.		Letnik 7, št. 11
Publication year		1997
Volume		str. 47-56
Language		slo
Abstract		The paper deals with the occurrence of some of the most common species of the genus Cladophora Kuetzing (1843) in the coastal waters of Slovenia and presents a key for their determinantion. Apart from the works by Battelli & Vukovič (1995) and Battelli (1996), in which general characteristics and occurrence of species of the genus Codium in the coastal waters of Slovenia are presented together with a morphological key, there are no works in which algae of the Slovene coastal waters would be dealt with morphologically and accompained with a suitable key. With this presentation of some of the species of the genus Cladophora we wish to acquaint nature lovers with the world of algae and to stimulate them in their attemps to recognize some of the most characteristic macrobenthic green algae inhabiting the coastal waters of Slovenia. Considering that the determination of individual species of this genus is often very problematic even for the experts, we have decided to describe, in detail, only 8 of the 17 representatives of this genus, which have to date been recorded in our coastal waters. Apart from their description, a Slovene name for each of the species is suggested, which is something of a novelty in the Slovene marine algology. The specimens were collect in the intertidal and upper coastal level to the depth of 6-8 m from Debeli rtič in the north to the mouth of the Dragonja river in the south. They have been preserved as wet preparations in 4-5% formaline and as dry preparations in algarium. The paper presents general morphological, reproductional and ecological characteristics of this genus and, while describing individual species, their morphological characteristics, which served as a basis for the elaboration of the morphological key for their determination. The determination key is morphological, which means that mainly morphological features were dealt with as a basis for their identification (Abstract truncated at 2000 characters.)
Descriptors		ALGAE, GREEN ECOSYSTEM SEAWATER