Gerald Thompson Kraft

Gerald Thompson Kraft (born 1939), phycologist.

IPNI standard form: Kraft

Taxon names authored

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• 285 taxon names authored by Gerald Thompson Kraft

Eponyms

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• 6 eponyms of Gerald Thompson Kraft

Publications

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1970s

• Kraft, G.T. & Abbott, I.A. 1971. Predaea weldii, a new species of Rhodophyta from Hawaii, with an evaluation of the genus. Journal of Phycology 7: 194–202. Reference page. 
• Kraft, G.T. 1973. The morphology of Cubiculosporum koronicarpis gen. et sp. nov., representing a new family in the Gigartinales (Rhodophyta). American Journal of Botany 60: 872–882.
• Kraft, G.T. 1976 '1975'. Morphology of Placentophora (Solieriaceae, Gigartinales: Rhodophyta), a new genus based on Sarcodiotheca colensoi from New Zealand. Journal of Phycology 11: 399–410. Reference page. 
• Kraft, G.T. 1977. Studies of marine algae in the lesser-known families of the Gigartinales (Rhodophyta). I. The Acrotylaceae. Australian Journal of Botany 25: 97–140, 18 figs. Reference page. 
• Kraft, G.T. 1977. Studies of marine algae in the lesser-known families of the Gigartinales (Rhodophyta). II. The Dicranemaceae. Australian Journal of Botany 25: 219–267, 20 figs.
• Kraft, G.T. 1977. Transfer of the New Zealand red alga Tylotus proliferus (Gracilariaceae, Gigartinales) to the genus Gracilaria. New Zealand Journal of Botany 15: 495–502, 15 figs. Reference page. 
• Kraft, G.T. 1978. Studies of marine algae in the lesser-known families of the Gigartinales (Rhodophyta). III. The Mychodeaceae and Mychodeophyllaceae. Australian Journal of Botany 26: 515–610, 46 figs. Reference page. 
• Kraft, G.T. 1979. Transfer of the Hawaiian red alga Cladhymenia pacifica to the genus Acanthophora (Rhodomelaceae, Ceramiales). Japanese Journal of Phycology 27: 123–135. Reference page. 
• Kraft, G.T. & Wynne, M.J. 1979. An earlier name for the Atlantic North American red alga Neoagardhiella baileyi (Solieriaceae, Gigartinales). Phycologia 18: 325–329, 7 figs. Reference page. 
• Ricker, R.W. & Kraft, G.T. 1979. Morphology of the subantarctic red alga Cenacrum subsutum gen. et sp. nov. (Rhodymeniales) from Macquarie Island. Journal of Phycology 15: 434–444. Reference page. 

1980s

• Gordon-Mills, E.M. & Kraft, G.T. 1981. The morphology of Radiathamnion speleotis gen. et sp. nov., representing a new tribe in the Ceramiaceae (Rhodophyta) from southern Australia. Phycologia 20: 122–130. Reference page. 
• Huisman, J.M. & Kraft, G.T. 1982. Deucalion gen. nov. and Anisoschizus gen nov. (Ceramiaceae, Ceramiales), two new propagule-forming red algae from southern Australia. Journal of Phycology 18: 177–192, 39 figs. Reference page. 
• Kraft, G.T. & Gabrielson, P.W. 1983. Tikvahiella candida gen. et sp. nov. (Solieriaceae, Rhodophyta), a new adelphoparasite from southern Australia. Phycologia 22: 47–57. Reference page. 
• Kraft, G.T. & Min-Thein, U. 1983. Claviclonium and Antrocentrum, two new genera of Acrotylaceae (Gigartinales, Rhodophyta) from southern Australia. Phycologia 22: 171–183, 35 figs. Reference page. 
• Allender, B.M. & Kraft, G.T. 1983. The marine algae of Lord Howe Island (New South Wales): the Dictyotales and Cutleriales (Phaeophyta). Brunonia 6: 73–130, 29 figs. Reference page. 
• Huisman, J.M. & Kraft, G.T. 1983. Gymnophycus, a new genus of Ceramiaceae (Rhodophyta) from eastern Australia. Phycologia 22: 285–294. Reference page. 
• Noble, J.M. & Kraft, G.T. 1983. Three new species of parasitic red algae (Rhodophyta) from Australia: Holmsella australis sp. nov., Meridiocolax bracteata sp. nov. and Trichidium pedicellatum gen. et sp. nov.. British Phycological Journal 18: 391–413, 42 figs. Reference page. 
• Kraft, G.T. 1984. The red algal genus Predaea (Nemastomataceae, Gigartinales) in Australia. Phycologia 23: 3–20, 43 figs. Reference page. 
• Kraft, G.T. 1984. Taxonomic and morphological studies of tropical and subtropical species of Callophycus (Solieriaceae, Rhodophyta). Phycologia 23: 53–71, 56 figs. Reference page. 
• Huisman, J.M. & Kraft, G.T. 1984. The genus Balliella Itono & Tanaka (Rhodophyta: Ceramiaceae) from eastern Australia. Journal of Phycology 20: 73–82. Reference page. 
• Jones, R. & Kraft, G.T. 1984. The genus Codium (Codiales, Chlorophyta) at Lord Howe Island (N.S.W.). Brunonia 7: 253–276. DOI: 10.1071/BRU9840253 Reference page. 
• Millar, A.J.K. & Kraft, G.T. 1984. The red algal genus Acrosymphyton (Dumontiaceae, Cryptonemiales) in Australia. Phycologia 23: 135–145, 26 figs. Reference page. 
• Wynne, M.J., Millar, A.J.K. & Kraft, G.T. 1984. Platysiphonia marginalis sp. nov. (Delesseriaceae), a new red alga from eastern Australia. Phycologia 23: 273–279.
• Gabrielson, P.W. & Kraft, G.T. 1985. The marine algae of Lord Howe Island (N.S.W.): the family Solieriaceae (Gigartinales, Rhodophyta). Brunonia 7: 217–251, 17 figs. Reference page. 
• Kraft, G.T. & Olsen-Stojkovich, J. 1985. Avrainvillea calithina (Udoteaceae, Bryopsidales), a new green alga from Lord Howe Island, NSW, Australia. Phycologia 24: 339–345. DOI: 10.2216/i0031-8884-24-3-339.1 Reference page. 
• Robins, P.A. & Kraft, G.T. 1985. Morphology of the type and Australian species of Dudresnaya (Dumontiaceae, Rhodophyta). Phycologia 24: 1–34, 129 figs. Reference page. 
• Kraft, G.T. 1986. The green algal genera Rhipiliopsis A. & E.S. Gepp and Rhipiella gen. nov. (Udoteaceae, Bryopsidales) in Australia and the Philippines. Phycologia 25: 47–72. Reference page. 
• Kraft, G.T. 1986. The genus Gibsmithia (Dumontiaceae, Rhodophyta) in Australia. Phycologia 25: 423–447.
• Kraft, G.T. 1988. Dotyophycus abbottiae (Nemaliales), a new red algal species from Western Australia. Phycologia 27(1): 131–141, 22 figs, 1 table. Reference page. 
• Kraft, G.T. 1988. Seirospora orientalis (Callithamnieae, Ceramiales), a new red algal species from the southern Great Barrier Reef. Japanese Journal of Phycology 36: 1–11, 25 figs, 1 table. Reference page. 
• Kraft, G.T. 1989. Cylindraxis rotundatus gen. et sp. nov. and its generic relationships within the Liagoraceae (Nemaliales, Rhodophyta). Phycologia 28: 275–304, 33 figs, 3 tables.

1990s

• Kraft, G.T. & Wynne, M.J. 1992. Heterostroma nereidiis gen. et sp. nov. (Rhodophyta), a dorsiventral rhodomelaceous marine alga from Western Australia. Phycologia 31: 16–36, 36 figs.
• Huisman, J.M. & Kraft, G.T. 1992. Disposal of auxiliary cell haploid nuclei during post-fertilization development in Guiryella repens gen. et sp. nov. (Ceramiaceae, Rhodophyta). Phycologia 31: 127–137, 20 figs. Reference page. 
• Lewis, J.A. & Kraft, G.T. 1992. Zymurgia, a new genus of Halymeniaceae (Gigartinales, Rhodophyta) from south-eastern Australia. Phycologia 31: 285–299. Reference page. 
• Millar, A.J.K. & Kraft, G.T. 1993. Catalogue of marine and freshwater red algae (Rhodophyta) of New South Wales, including Lord Howe Island, South-western Pacific. Australian Systematic Botany 6: 1–90. Reference page. 
• Huisman, J.M., Foard, H.J. & Kraft, G.T. 1993. Semnocarpa gen. nov. (Rhodophyta: Rhodymeniales) from southern and western Australia. European Journal of Phycology 28: 145–155, 30 figs. Reference page. 
• Huisman, J.M. & Kraft, G.T. 1994. Studies of the Liagoraceae (Rhodophyta) of Western Australia: Gloiotrichus fractalis gen. et sp. nov. and Ganonema helminthaxis sp. nov. European Journal of Phycology 29: 73–85, 36 figs. Reference page. 
• Athanasiadis, A. & Kraft, G.T. 1994. Description of Pterothamnion squarrulosum (Harvey) comb. nov. from south-eastern Australia and southern New Zealand, with a taxonomic re-assessment of the genera Pterothamnion, Platythamnion and Glandothamnus (Ceramiaceae, Rhodophyta). European Journal of Phycology 29: 119–133, 27 figs, 1 table.
• Saunders, G. W. & Kraft, G.T. 1994. Small-subunit rRNA gene sequences from representatives of selected families of the Gigartinales and Rhodymeniales (Rhodophyta). I. Evidence for the Plocamiales ord. nov.. Canadian Journal of Botany 72: 1250–1263, 26 figs, 2 tables.
• Womersley, H.B.S. & Kraft, G.T. 1994. Family Nemastomataceae Schmitz 1892:2, nom. cons.. In: The marine benthic flora of southern Australia. Part IIIA. Bangiophyceae and Florideophyceae (Acrochaetiales, Nemaliales, Gelidiales, Hildenbrandiales and Gigartinales sensu lato). (Womersley, H.B.S. Eds), pp. 270–285. Canberra: Australian Biological Resources Study. Reference page. 
• Chiovitti, A., Kraft, G.T., Saunders, G.W., Liao, M.-L. & Bacic, A. 1995. A revision of the systematics of the Nizymeniaceae (Gigartinales, Rhodophyta) based on polysacharides, anatomy and nucleotide sequences. Journal of Phycology 31: 153–166, 11 figs, 3 tables. DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-3646.1995.00153.x Reference page. 
• Kraft, G.T. & Wynne, M.J. 1996. Delineation of the genera Struvea Sonder and Phyllodictyon J.E. Gray (Cladophorales, Chlorophyta). Phycological Research 44: 129–143, 28 figs. DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1835.1996.tb00042.x . hdl: 2027.42/74104 . Reference page. 
• Millar, A.J.K., Saunders, G.W., Strachan, I.M. & Kraft, G.T. 1996. The morphology, reproduction and small-subunit rRNA gene sequence of Cephalocystis (Rhodymeniaceae, Rhodophyta), a new genus based on Cordylecladia furcellata J. Agardh from Australia. Phycologia 35: 48–60, 30 figs, 1 table. DOI: 10.2216/i0031-8884-35-1-48.1 Reference page. 
• Saunders, G. W. & Kraft, G.T. 1996. Small-subunit rRNA gene sequences from representatives of selected families of the Gigartinales and Rhodymeniales (Rhodophyta). II. Recognition of the Halymeniales ord. nov. Canadian Journal of Botany 74: 694–707. Reference page. 
• Kraft, G.T. & Abbott, I.A. 1997. Platoma ardreanum (Schizymeniaceae, Gigartinales) and Halymenia chiangiana (Halymeniaceae, Halymeniales), two new species of proliferous, foliose red algae from the Hawaiian Islands. Cryptogamie, Algologie 18: 97–116. Reference page. 
• Chiovitti, A., Kraft, G.T., Bacic, A., Craik, D.J., Munro, S.L.A. & Liao, M.-L. 1998. Carrageenans from Australian representatives of the Family Cystocloniaceae (Gigartinales, Rhodophyta), with description of Calliblepharis celatospora sp. nov., and transfer of Austroclonium to the Family Areschougiaceae. Journal of Phycology 34: 515–535, 27 figs, 6 tables. DOI: 10.1046/j.1529-8817.1998.340515.x Reference page. 
• Hommersand, M.H., Wilson, S.M. & Kraft, G.T. 1998. Morphology and systematics of Rhodocallis elegans, Rhodocallideae, trib. nov. (Ceramiaceae, Rhodophyta) from southeastern Australia. Journal of Phycology 34: 865–879, 36 figs. Reference page. 
• Kraft, G.T., Liao, L.M., Millar, A.J.K., Coppejans, E.G.G., Hommersand, M.H. & Wilson Freshwater, D. 1999. Marine benthic red algae (Rhodophyta) from Bulusan, Sorsogon Province, Southern Luzon, Philippines. The Philippine Scientist 36: 1–50. Reference page. 
• Lin, S.-M. & Kraft, G.T. 1999. Schizoseris tasmanica sp. nov. (Delesseriaceae, Ceramiales), a first record of the genus for the Australian marine flora. Phycologia 38: 128–137, 39 figs. Reference page. 
• Saunders, G. W., Strachan, I.M. & Kraft, G.T. 1999. The families of the order Rhodymeniales (Rhodophyta): a molecular-systematic investigation with a description of Faucheaceae fam. nov. Phycologia 38: 23–40. DOI: 10.2216/i0031-8884-38-1-23.1 Reference page. 

2000s

• Choi, H.-G., Kraft, G.T. & Saunders, G.W. 2000. Nuclear small-subunit rDNA sequences from Ballia spp. (Rhodophyta): proposal of the Balliales ord. nov., Balliaceae fam. nov., Ballia nana sp. nov. and Inkyuleea gen. nov. (Ceramiales). Phycologia 39: 272–287. DOI: 10.2216/i0031-8884-39-4-272.1 Reference page. 
• Kraft, G.T. 2000. Marine and estuarine benthic green algae (Chlorophyta) of Lord Howe Island, south-western Pacific. Australian Systematic Botany 13: 509–648. Reference page. 
• Phillips, L.E., Choi, H.-G., Saunders, G.W. & Kraft, G.T. 2000. The morphology, taxonomy and molecular phylogeny of Heterocladia and Trigenea (Rhodomelaceae, Rhodophyta) with delineation of the little-known tribe Heterocladieae. Journal of Phycology 36: 199–219. DOI: 10.1046/j.1529-8817.2000.98186.x Reference page. 
• Wilson, S.M. & Kraft, G.T. 2000. Morphological and taxonomic studies of selected genera from the tribe Amansieae (Rhodomelaceae, Rhodophyta). Australian Systematic Botany 13: 325–372. Reference page. 
• Henderson, R.J.F., Wilson, S.M. & Kraft, G.T. 2001. Kentrophora S.M. Wilson & Kraft, a new name for an algal genus in tribe Amansieae (Rhodomelaceae, Rhodophyceae). Austrobaileya 6: 175–176. JSTOR . Reference page. 
• Millar, A.J.K. & Kraft, G.T. 2001. Monograph of the green macroalgal genus Rhipilia (Udoteaceae, Halimedales), with a description of R. crassa sp. nov. from Australia and the Philippines. Phycologia 40: 21–34. DOI: 10.2216/i0031-8884-40-1-21.1 Reference page. 
• Kraft, G.T. & Abbott, I.A. 2002. The anatomy of Neotenophycus ichthyosteus gen. et sp. nov. (Rhodomelaceae, Ceramiales), a bizzare red algal parasite from the central Pacific. European Journal of Phycology 37: 269–278. Reference page. 
• De Clerck, O., Kraft, G.T. & Coppejans, E. 2002. Morphology and systematics of Sciurothamnion stegengae gen. et sp. nov. (Ceramiaceae, Rhodophyta) from the Indo-Pacific. Journal of Phycology 38: 1176-1189. DOI: 10.1046/j.1529-8817.2002.01247.x Reference page. 
• Saunders, G. W. & Kraft, G.T. 2002. Two new Australian species of Predaea (Nemastomataceae, Rhodophyta) with taxonomic recommendations for an emended Nemastomatales and expanded Halymeniales. Journal of Phycology 38: 1245–1260. DOI: 10.1046/j.1529-8817.2002.02039.x Reference page. 
• Choi, H.-G., Kraft, G.T., Lee, I.K. & Saunders, G.W. 2002. Phylogenetic analyses of anatomical and nuclear SSU rDNA sequence data indicate that the Dasyaceae and Delesseriaceae (Ceramiales, Rhodophyta) are polyphyletic. European Journal of Phycology 37: 551–570. Reference page. 
• Kraft, G.T. 2003. The morphology of Ostiophyllum sonderopeltae gen. et sp. nov. (Gigartinaceae, Rhodophyta) from south-eastern Australia. Phycologia 42: 18–25.
• Kraft, G.T. & Abbott, I.A. 2003. Hydroclathrus (Scytosiphonaceae, Phaeophyceae): conspectus of the genus and proposal of new species from Australia and Hawaii. Phycological Research 51(4): 244–258. Reference page. 
• Kraft, G.T., Saunders, G.W., Abbott, I.A. & Haroun, R.J. 2004. A uniquely calcified brown alga from Hawaii: Newhousia imbricata gen. et sp. nov. (Dictyotales, Phaeophyceae). Journal of Phycology 40: 383–394, 9 figs, 2 tables. DOI: 10.1111/j.1529-8817.2004.03115.x Reference page. 
• Saunders, G.W., Chiovitti, A. & Kraft, G.T. 2004. Small-subunit rRNA gene sequences from representatives of selected families of the Gigartinales and Rhodymeniales (Rhodophyta). 3. Recognizing the Gigartinales sensu stricto. Canadian Journal of Botany 82: 43–74. DOI: 10.1139/b03-110 Reference page. 
• Kraft, G.T. & Millar, A.J.K. 2005. Struvea thoracica sp. nov. (Cladophorophyceae), a new deep-water chlorophyte from the Great Barrier Reef and New Caledonia. Phycologia 44(3): 305–311. DOI: 10.2216/0031-8884(2005)44[305:STSNCA]2.0.CO;2 Reference page. 
• Saunders, G.W., Lane, C.E., Schneider, C.W. & Kraft, G.T. 2006. Unraveling the Asteromenia peltata species complex with clarification of the genera Halichrysis and Drouetia (Rhodymeniaceae, Rhodophyta). Canadian Journal of Botany 84: 1581–1607, 83 figs, 3 tables. Reference page. 
• Kraft, G.T. 2007. Algae of Australia. Marine benthic algae of Lord Howe Island and the southern Great Barrier Reef, 1. Green algae. pp. [i–iv], v–vi, 1–347, 110 text-figs; 11 pls. Canberra & Melbourne: Australian Biological Resources Study & CSIRO Publishing. Reference page. 
• Noble, J.M. & Kraft, G.T. 2007. Halimedaceae Halimeda. In: Algae of Australia. Marine benthic algae of Lord Howe Island and the southern Great Barrier Reef, 1. Green algae. (Kraft, G.T. Eds), pp. 189–221. Canberra & Melbourne: Australian Biological Resources Study & CSIRO Publishing. Reference page. 
• Choi, H.-G., Kraft, G.T., Kim, H.-S., Guiry, M.D. & Saunders, G.W. 2008. Phylogenetic relationships among lineages of the Ceramiaceae (Ceramiales, Rhodophyta) based on nuclear small subunit rDNA sequence data. Journal of Phycology 44: 1033–1048. DOI: 10.1111/j.1529-8817.2008.00554.x Reference page. 
• Kraft, G.T. 2009. Algae of Australia. Marine benthic algae of Lord Howe Island and the southern Great Barrier Reef, 2. Brown algae. pp. [i–iv], v–vi, 1–364, 107 figs. Erratum of fig. 73 from vol. 1. Canberra & Melbourne: Australian Biological Resources Study and CSIRO Publishing. Reference page. 

2010s

• Kraft, L.G., Kraft, G.T. & Waller, R.F. 2010. Investigations into southern Australian Ulva (Ulvophyceae, Chlorophyta) taxonomy and molecular phylogeny indicate both cosmopolitanism and endemic cryptic species. Journal of Phycology 46(6): 1257–1277. DOI: 10.1111/j.1529-8817.2010.00909.x Reference page. 
• Kraft, G.T. & Saunders, G.W. 2011. Taxonomic and molecular studies of the family Sebdeniaceae (Sebdeniales, Rhodophyta): new species of Lesleigha gen. nov. and Crassitegula from Hawaii, east Asia and Lord Howe Island. European Journal of Phycology 46(4): 416–441. Reference page. 
• Scott, F.J., Saunders, G.W. & Kraft, G.T. 2013. Entwisleia bella gen. et sp. nov., a novel marine 'batrachospermaceous' red alga from southeastern Tasmania representing a new family and order in the Nemaliophycidae. European Journal of Phycology 48(4): 398–410, 40 fig. DOI: 10.1080/09670262.2013.849359 . Reference page. 
• Kraft, G.T. & Saunders, G.W. 2014. Crebradomus and Dissimularia, new genera in the family Chondrymeniaceae (Gigartinales, Rhodophyta) from the central, southern and western Pacific Ocean. Phycologia 53(2): 146–166. Reference page. 
• Kraft, G.T., Conklin, K.Y. & Sherwood, A.R. 2014. Tylotus laqueatus, a new species of Dicranemataceae (Gigartinales, Rhodophyta) from the Hawaiian Islands. Phycological research, 62(1): 16–28. DOI: 10.1111/pre.12030 Reference page. 
• Saunders, G.W., Filloramo, G., Dixon, K., Le Gall, L., Maggs, C.A. & Kraft, G.T. 2016. Multigene analyses resolve early diverging lineages in the Rhodymeniophycidae (Florideophyceae, Rhodphyta). Journal of Phycology 52(4): 505–522. DOI: 10.1111/jpy.12426 Reference page. 
• Kraft, G.T. & Saunders, G.W. 2017. Mychodea and the Mychodeaceae (Gigartinales, Rhodophyta) revisited: molecular analyses shed light on interspecies relationships in Australia's largest endemic genus and family. Australian Systematic Botany 30: 230–258, 16 figs. DOI: 10.1071/SB16058 Reference page. 
• Saunders, G.W., Huisman, J.M., Vergés, A., Kraft, G.T. & Le Gall, L. 2017. Phylogenetic analyses support recognition of ten new genera, ten new species and 16 new combinations in the family Kallymeniaceae (Gigartinales, Rhodophyta). Cryptogamie, Algologie 38(2): 79–132, 126 figs. DOI: 10.7872/crya/v38.iss2.2017.79 Reference page. 

2020s

• Dumilag, R.V., Dumago, F.S., Cabudoy, R.K.R., Peralta, M.C.E., Li, C.C., Gamus, G.C.V., Romero, R.G.T., Yap, S.L., Roledo, M.Y., Geraldino, P.J.L., Verbruggen, H., Leliaert, F., Draisma, S.G.A., Liao, L.M. & Kraft, G.T. 2020. The Ulvophyceae (Chlorophyta) of eastern Sorsogon, Philippines, including Halimeda magnicuneata sp. nov. (Bryopsidales). Botanica Marina 63(5): 439–453. DOI: 10.1515/bot-2020-0017 Reference page.