The Rhodophyta of Taranto Seas

Occurrence Specimen
Latest version published by Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Istituto di Ricerca sulle Acque on Apr 8, 2025 Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Istituto di Ricerca sulle Acque
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8 April 2025
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Description

We report a total of 54 records concerning samples collected by Irma Pierpaoli in the last century. The samples are a part of the entire collection of macroalgae species included in the herbarium MBMP. The “Irma Pierpaoli herbarium” is owned by the Marine Biology Museum of Porto Cesareo (Lecce, Italy) related to the DiSTeBA department of Salento University and it was named after the botanist who collected the samples. It was registered in the Hindex Herbariorum site with the code MBMP in July 2024. At the CNR-IRSA in Taranto two herbaria are stored: the Herbarium of the Talassografico Institute “A. Cerruti” and the historical Herbarium “Irma Pierpaoli” dating back to the Twenties of the last century. Irma Pierpaoli, throughout her career as a school teacher, first in Taranto and then in Senigallia, devoted her free time to the study of seaweeds. During the years spent in Taranto, she was a guest of the Talassografico Institute, where she carried out her researches. We owe her the first studies on the benthic seaweeds of the Taranto seas. She left us the aforementioned rich herbarium containing about 600 specimens collected in the high Ionian Sea and in the middle Adriatic.

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Papa L, Spada L, Petrocelli A, Cecere E (2025). The Rhodophyta of Taranto Seas. Version 1.1. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Istituto di Ricerca sulle Acque. Occurrence dataset. https://cloud.gbif.org/eca/resource?r=rhodo-ta-mbmp&v=1.1

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GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 7d3cd3c0-e761-42d0-8f93-3085edf29ddd.  Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Istituto di Ricerca sulle Acque publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Participant Node Managers Committee.

Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen; historical herbarium; Taranto Seas; Ionian Sea

Contacts

Loredana Papa
  • Metadata Provider ●
  • Originator ●
  • Point Of Contact
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Istituto di Ricerca sulle Acque (IRSA)
  • via Roma 3
74123 Taranto
TA
IT
Lucia Spada
  • Originator ●
  • Point Of Contact
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Istituto di Ricerca sulle Acque (IRSA)
  • via Roma 3
74123 Taranto
TA
IT
Antonella Petrocelli
  • Originator ●
  • Point Of Contact
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Istituto di Ricerca sulle Acque (IRSA)
  • via Roma 3
74123 Taranto
TA
IT
Ester Cecere
  • Originator ●
  • Point Of Contact
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Istituto di Ricerca sulle Acque (IRSA)
  • via Roma 3
74123 Taranto
TA
IT
Lyudmila Kamburska

Geographic Coverage

Geographic coverage: Ionian Sea in the Apulia Region; Biogeographic region: Mediterranean Bounding box: min longitude: 8.68 – max longitude: 9.66 – min latitude: 39.43 – max Latitude: 41.12. • Min Long 17.139208 – Max Long 17.326445 • Min Lat 40.406210 – Max Lat 40.489764 Habitat type: marine-coastal areas; Country: Italy

Bounding Coordinates South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180]

Taxonomic Coverage

Phyla: Rhodophyta Class: Florideophyceae

Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Rhodophyta
Class Bangiophyceae, Florideophyceae
Order Rhodymeniales, Gigartinales, Ceramiales, Gracilariales, Gelidiales, Halymeniales, Bangiales, Bonnemaisoniales
Family Delesseriaceae, Rhodomelaceae, Ceramiaceae, Gigartinaceae, Gelidiaceae, Wrangeliaceae, Solieriaceae, Naccariaceae, Grateloupiaceae, Gracilariaceae, Callithamniaceae, Bangiaceae, Champiaceae

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 1942-08-01 / 1942-09-01
Formation Period 1921-1924
Formation Period 1947

Project Data

The dataset is a part of the collection MBMP created by Irma Pierpaoli in the last century. During the years spent in Taranto as a teacher, she was a guest of the Talassografico Institute, where she carried out her researches. She collected along the coast of the Mar Grande and Mar piccolo of Taranto numerous samples belonging to the herbarium MBMP. The Rhodophyta dataset of the Taranto Seas, covered a period from 1921 to 1924 and with some samples collected between august and September 1942 and only one in 1947.

Title The Collection of Rhodophyta of Taranto Seas
Funding Digitalization of the collection is funded by the Project ITINERIS (Italian Integrated Environmental Research Infrastructures System). The Project has among its purposes that of creating datasets to share biodiversity data with the scientific community.
Study Area Description Mar Piccolo of Taranto (Southern Italy), is a semi-enclosed basin divided in two inlets: the first basin “Primo Seno” with a maximum depth 13 m and the second basin “Secondo Seno” with a maximum depth 10 m. The first basin is connected to the Mar Grande, a bay of the Mediterranean Sea, through two channels (Porta Napoli and Navigabile). It has features of a transition environment since water salinity is influenced by the presence of small tributaries and numerous (about 34) submarine springs (locally called “citri”) which determine the near-surface circulation engine toward the inlets, while the bottom currents moving in the system in opposite through Navigabile and Porta Napoli channels. In the basin the tidal range is of 30–40 cm the seawater temperature ranges between a minimum of 7.5°C and a maximum value of 32.3°C, while salinity ranges between 33.0 and 37.8 psu. The Mar Grande of Taranto is a semi-enclosed basin that is connected to the Gulf of Taranto through three artificial dams. The temperature shows seasonal variations typical of the coastal Ionian regions with an average annual value of about 18°C, while the salinity is about 38‰ and is almost uniform over the year.

The personnel involved in the project:

Loredana Papa

Sampling Methods

The samples are a part of the entire collection of macroalgae species included in the herbarium MBMP. The “Irma Pierpaoli herbarium” is owned by the Marine Biology Museum of Porto Cesareo (Lecce, Italy) related to the DiSTeBA department of Salento University and it was named after the botanist who collected the samples. It was registered in the Hindex Herbariorum site with the code MBMP in July 2024

Study Extent A total of 54 records concerning samples collected by Irma Pierpaoli in the last century. The samples are a part of the entire collection of macroalgae species included in the herbarium MBMP.

Method step description:

  1. Samples were collected from 1921 to 1924 and from august to September 1942. A single record refers to a sample collected in 1947.

Collection Data

Collection Name Collezioni botaniche dell'Orto botanico dell'Università degli Studi del Salento
Collection Identifier https://scientific-collections.gbif.org/collection/750698d3-458b-4de1-b929-355da92cbc56
Specimen preservation methods Dried and pressed

Additional Metadata

Acknowledgements ITINERIS, EU - Next Generation EU PNRR- Mission 4 “Education and Research” Component 2: “From research to business” - Investment 3.1: “Fund for the realisation of an integrated system of research and innovation infrastructures”.
Alternative Identifiers 7d3cd3c0-e761-42d0-8f93-3085edf29ddd
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