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Gracilaria parvispora is the correct name of the species known as G. bursa-pastoris in Korea and Japan Kim, Myung Sook 106016 Kim, Miryang 106017 Terada, Ryuta 106018 テラダ, リュウタ 寺田, 竜太 Yang, Eun Chan 106019 Boo, Sung Min 106020 474 Gracilaria parvispora Gracilaria bursa-pastoris morphology rbcL Rhodophyta taxonomy The incidence of Gracilaria bursa-pastoris, which is found mainly in Europe, in the northwest region of the Pacific Ocean was recently brought into question following the descriptions of G. parvispora and G. chouae from Hawaii and China, respectively. We examined the morphology of thalli previously identified as G. bursapastoris in Korea and Japan, and analyzed the plastid rbcL gene sequences of Korean and Japanese samples, and a G. parvispora sample from Hawaii. The morphological and sequence data both indicate identity between the taxon from Korea/Japan and G. parvispora from Hawaii, but significant differences exist between G. parvispora and G. bursa-pastoris from Europe. We propose that the thalli from Korea and Japan should be renamed G. parvispora. The rbcL tree grouped G. parvispora and G. damaecornis together, as a sister to the G. tikvahiae/G. isabellana/G. cuneifolia clade. This is the first recorded occurrence of G. parvispora outside Hawaii. journal article International Association for Plant Taxonomy 2008 VoR application/pdf Taxon 1 57 231 237 00400262 AA00857098 https://ir.kagoshima-u.ac.jp/record/8274/files/Kim-et-al_2008_Taxon57_p231–237.pdf http://hdl.handle.net/10232/15297 https://ir.kagoshima-u.ac.jp/records/8274 eng International Association for Plant Taxonomy open access