Gaillona Bonnemaison, 1828

Holotype species: Conferva arbuscula R.Brown ex Dillwyn

Publication details: Bonnemaison, 1828: 113

Currently accepted name for the type species: Gaillona seposita (Gunnerus) Athanasiadis

Original publication and holotype designation: Bonnemaison, T. (1828). Essai sur les hydrophytes loculées (ou articulées) de la famille des Épidermées et des Céramiées. Mémoires du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris 16: 49-148, pls 3-8.

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The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2017-02-28 by M.D. Guiry.

Taxonomic status: This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.

Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Athanasiadis, A. (2016). Phycologia Europaea Rhodophyta Vol. II. pp. [2], 763-1504. Thessaloniki: Published and distributed by the author.

Nomenclatural note
Introduced as a substitute name for Grateloupia Bonnemaison 1822 (not Grateloupia C.Agardh, 1822), type: Conferva arbuscula R.Brown ex Dillywn. - (25 January 2017) - M.D. Guiry

Taxonomic note
Athansiadis (2016: 808) writes: "The study of Mcivor & al. (2002, f.8-9) provided evidence for the existence of a monophyletic multlnucleate group (Callithamnion) and several groups within the uninucleate Aglaothamnion (s.l. ). Five species (Aglaothamnion sepositum, A. roseum, A. hookeri, A. sp. - Spain, A. gallicum) resolved as a sister group to Callithamnion, and Gaillona is here recognized as the earliest name for this assemblage. Aglaothamnion is maintained as a paraphyletic group for the remaining unlnucleate species, where the generitype A. tenuissimum and A. pseudobyssoides are currently included in a sister-taxon relationship. Gaillona differs from Aglaothamnion s.s. (i.e. A. tenuissimum and A. pseudobyssoides) in comprising taxa with predominantly distlchous ramification." - (20 October 2010) - M.D. Guiry

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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 28 February 2017. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 18 May 2025