Seaweeds of the Faroe Islands An annotated checklist: Tarar í føroyskum øki

Abstract

Collectíons of maríne algae were made at 265 stations between July 1994 and August 2000 as part of the BIOFAR programme. The identified species are listed including previous records and names used in publications about marine algae from the Faroe Islands since 1896. The 113 Rhodophyceae, 83 Phaeophyceae, 4 Xanthophyceae and 64 Chlorophyceae listed here total 264 species, 42 of these are new records for the Faroe Islands. We also identified 18 Cyanophyceae, for one of them Sphaenosiphon farlowii (Børgesen) R. Nielsen and K. Gunnarsson comb. nov. is proposed.