Analipus japonicus

Analipus japonicus, or sea fir, is a brown alga species in the genus Analipus.

Analipus japonicus
Analipus japonicus, Cambria, California
Scientific classification
Clade: SAR
Phylum: Ochrophyta
Class: Phaeophyceae
Order: Ralfsiales
Family: Ralfsiaceae
Genus: Analipus
Species:
A. japonicus
Binomial name
Analipus japonicus
(Harvey) M.J.Wynne, 1971
Synonyms
  • Halosaccion japonicum Harvey
  • Chordaria abietina Ruprecht ex Farlow
  • Heterochordaria abietina (Ruprecht ex Farlow) Setchell et Gardner

This species contains the phlorotannins difucol, trifucol, tetrafucol A and B, two pentafucols, four hexafucols, a heptafucol mixture and halogenated compounds such as bromo- and chlorotrifucol, 5'-bromo- and 5'-chlorotetrafucol-A as well as 5'-bromo- and 5'-chloropentafucol-A.[1]

This brown alga species is a Pacific subtropical-boreal plant species that populates the stone coast from the Sea of Japan to the Bering Sea and from Alaska to California. The Analipus thallus is an abiding lobed basal crust ("tar spot"), from which a short lived vertical axis with a number of branches develop. From the branches develop a unilocular or multilocular sporangia advance on the branches.[2]

References
  1. Glombitza, =KW; Zieprath, G (1989). "Phlorotannins from the Brown Alga Analipus japonicus1". Planta Medica. 55 (2): 171–5. doi:10.1055/s-2006-961916. PMID 17262334.
  2. Kepel, A. A. (2000). "Reproductive phenology of the brown alga Analipus japonicus in Peter the Great Bay (Sea of Japan)". Biologiya Morya (Vladivostok). 26 (6): 426–429. doi:10.1023/A:1009407123886.

Further reading
  • Bilan, M.I.; Zakharova, A.N.; Grachev, A.A.; Shashkov, A.S; Nifantiev, N.E.; Usov, A.I. (January–February 2007). "Polysaccharides of algae: 60. Fucoidan from the pacific brown alga Analipus japonicus (Harv.) winne (Ectocarpales, Scytosiphonaceae)". Russian Journal of Bioorganic Chemistry. 33 (1): 38–46. doi:10.1134/S1068162007010049.
  • Nelson, W.A.; De Wreede, R.E. (1989). "REPRODUCTIVE PHENOLOGY OF ANALIPUS-JAPONICUS HARV. WYNNE PHAEOPHYTA IN THE EASTERN NORTH PACIFIC". Japanese Journal of Phycology. 37 (1): 53–56.


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