Cutleria Greville, 1830

Holotype species: Cutleria multifida (Turner) Greville

Publication details: Greville, 1830: xliv, 59

Original publication and holotype designation: Greville, R.K. (1830). Algae britannicae, or descriptions of the marine and other inarticulated plants of the British islands, belonging to the order Algae; with plates illustrative of the genera. pp. [i]-lxxxviii, [1]-218, pl. 1-19. Edinburgh & London: McLachlan & Stewart; Baldwin & Cradock.

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Description: Frons compresso-plana, cartilagineo-membranacea, subflabelliformis, vage fissa. Radix stuposa. Fructus : racemuli punctiformes undique sparsi capsularum, capsulis oblongis, pedicillatis, granulis repletis.

Information contributed by: Original description; H. Kawai.. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2025-04-22 by M.D. Guiry.

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

Gender: This genus name is currently treated as feminine.

Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Silberfeld, T., Rousseau, F. & Reviers, B. de (2014). An updated classification of brown algae (Ochrophyta, Phaeophyceae). Cryptogamie Algologie 35(2): 117-156, 1 fig., 1 table.

Comments: Formation of neutral plurilocular sporangia on sporophytic thalli recently reported in Japanese C. cylindrica. Dominance of female gametophytes in the field populations has been repeatedly reported (Thuret 1850, Church 1898, Fletcher 1987, Womersley 1987). This phenomenon is partly explained by the frequent occurrence of parthenogenetic female gametophytes. Erect thalli mostly epilithic in intertidal zone, annual. Prostrate thalli epilithic and perennial. Distributed widely in temperate area of Pacific and Atlantic Ocean.

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Descriptions of chrysophyte genera were subsequently published in J. Kristiansen & H.R. Preisig (eds.). 2001. Encyclopedia of Chrysophyte Genera. Bibliotheca Phycologica 110: 1-260.

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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 22 April 2025. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 26 May 2025