Dictyota vittata Kraft 2009
Current name:
Dictyota vittata Kraft
North Keppel Island, Queensland, Australia; 3 m, on rock, protected area subject to moderate tidal flows, area can have high sediment loads. Image taken with Sony N2 with housing. It is a common species in Keppel Bay. - 07 March 2007. Tom Cowling
Publication Details
Dictyota vittata Kraft 2009: 195, 334, fig. 61 A-N; pl. 7 C, D
Published in: 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.
Publication date: late November 2009
Type Species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Dictyota is Dictyota dichotoma (Hudson) J.V.Lamouroux.
Status of Name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Type Information
Type locality: "Coral Gardens", Heron Island, southern Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia; (Kraft 2009: 335) Holotype: G.T. Kraft, R.W. Ricker & F.J. Scott; 8 Aug. 1978; 6-8 m, on lower tines of Acrophora coral; MELU; GBR-15296 (Kraft 2009: 335)
General Environment
This is a marine species.
Created: 07 April 2010 by M.D. Guiry.
Last updated: 17 January 2020
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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 17 January 2020. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 25 April 2024
