Fucus anceps Harvey & Ward ex Carruthers

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Chromista
Phylum Ochrophyta
Class Phaeophyceae
Order Fucales
Family Fucaceae
Genus Fucus

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Publication details
Fucus anceps Harvey & Ward ex Carruthers 1864: 54

Original publication: Carruthers, W. (1864). Note on the Kilkee Fucus. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign 2: 54.
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Type species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Fucus is Fucus vesiculosus Linnaeus.

Status of name
This name is currently regarded as a taxonomic synonym of Fucus distichus Linnaeus

Origin of species name
Adjective B (Latin), two-edged (Stearn 1973).

Synonym(s)
No synonyms are currently included in AlgaeBase.

General environment
This is a marine species.

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Fucus anceps Harvey & Ward ex Carruthers)
Ireland: Clare (Carruthers 1864, Harvey 1864).

Europe: Britain (Newton 1931), Ireland (Carruthers 1864).

North America: Maine (Coleman & Brawley 2005), Massachusetts (Coleman & Brawley 2005), New Hampshire (Coleman & Brawley 2005).

Key references
Coleman, M.A. & Brawley, S.H. (2005). Variability in temperature and historical patterns in reproduction in the Fucus distichus complex (Heterokontophyta, Phaeophyceae): implications for speciation and the collection of herbarium specimens. Journal of Phycology 41: 1110-1119.

Harvey, W.H. (1864). The Kilkee Fucus. Popular Science Review 3: 389.

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

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=Fucus&Species=anceps

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 22 December 1998 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 18 April 2012 by Michael Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 850 times since it was created.

Linking to this page: http://www.algaebase.org/search/species/detail/?species_id=14456

Citing AlgaeBase
Cite this record as:
Michael Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2013. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org; searched on 19 May 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:108632