Battersia racemosa (Greville) Draisma, Prud'homme & H.Kawai

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Chromista
Phylum Ochrophyta
Class Phaeophyceae
Order Sphacelariales
Family Sphacelariaceae
Genus Battersia

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Publication details
Battersia racemosa (Greville) Draisma, Prud'homme & H.Kawai 2010: 322

Original publication: Draisma, S.G.A., Prud'homme van Reine, W.F. & Kawai, H. (2010). A revised classification of the Sphacelariales (Phaeophyceae) inferred from a psbC and rbcL based phylogeny. European Journal of Phycology 45(3): 308-326.
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Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Battersia is Battersia mirabilis Reinke ex Batters.

Status of name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.

Basionym
Sphacelaria racemosa Greville

Type information
Type locality: Firth of Forth, opposite Caroline Park (Scotland) (Draisma, Prud'homme van Reine & Kawai 2010: 322). Type: Richardson (s.n.); 4.ii.1819; growing on rocks near high water mark. BM (Draisma, Prud'homme van Reine & Kawai 2010: 322). Notes: GL, LD.

Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), with flowers borne in racemes.

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Sphacelaria racemosa Greville 1824

General environment
This is a marine species.

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Sphacelaria racemosa Greville)
Europe: Britain (Newton 1931, Hardy & Guiry 2003), Helgoland (Bartsch & Kuhlenkamp 2000).

North America: Alaska (Lindstrom 1977, Scagel et al. 1989), British Columbia (Scagel et al. 1989), California (Scagel et al. 1989), Oregon (Hansen 1997), Washington (Scagel et al. 1989).

(as Battersia racemosa (Greville) Draisma, Prud'homme & H.Kawai)
Europe: Britain (Guiry 2012).

North America: California (Miller 2012).

SAG Cultures
SAG Cultures may be viewed at http://sagdb.uni-goettingen.de/showstrains.php?genus=Battersia&species=racemosa

SCCAP Cultures
Cultures from the Scandinavian Culture Collection of Algae at the University of Copenhagen (SCCAP) and Protozoa may be viewed at http://www.sccap.dk/search/algaebase.asp?Genus=Battersia&Species=racemosa

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 03 November 2010 by Wendy Guiry

Verified by: 03 November 2010 by Wendy Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 299 times since it was created.

Linking to this page: http://www.algaebase.org/search/species/detail/?species_id=138360

Citing AlgaeBase
Cite this record as:
Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2013. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org; searched on 22 May 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:98078