Acrochaetium minimum F.S.Collins
Publication details
Acrochaetium minimum F.S.Collins 1908: 133
Type species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Acrochaetium is Acrochaetium secundatum (Lyngbye) Nägeli.
Status of name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), very little, very least (Stearn 1973).
Homotypic Synonym(s)
Colaconema minimum (Collins) Woelkerling 1973
Audouinella minima (Collins) G.R.South 1984
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Chantransia emergens Rosenvinge 1909
Audouinella emergens (Rosenvinge) P.S.Dixon 1976
General environment
This is a marine species.
Distribution by country
Point data for Ireland and Britain
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(as Acrochaetium minimum F.S.Collins)
Europe: Britain (Hardy & Guiry 2003), France (Anon. 2012), Ireland (Guiry 2012), Spain (Bárbara et al. 2005).
North America: Massachusetts (Taylor 1957).
(as Colaconema minimum (Collins) Woelkerling)
Europe: Scandinavia (Athanasiadis 1996).
Western Atlantic: Trop. & Subtrop. W. Atlantic (Wynne 2011 
).
(as Audouinella emergens (Rosenvinge) P.S.Dixon)
Ireland: Galway (Dixon & Irvine 1977, Guiry 1978).
Europe: Britain (Dixon & Irvine 1977), France (Dizerbo & Herpe 2007), Ireland (Dixon & Irvine 1977, Guiry 1978).
(as Audouinella minima (Collins) G.R.South)
Europe: Britain (Guiry 1997).
Key references
Garbary, D.J. (1987). The Acrochaetiaceae (Rhodophyta): an annotated bibliography. Bibliotheca Phycologica 77: 1-267, 2 tables.
SAG Cultures
SAG Cultures may be viewed at http://sagdb.uni-goettingen.de/showstrains.php?genus=Acrochaetium&species=minimum
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=Acrochaetium&Species=minimum
Created: 30 December 1998 by M.D. Guiry
Verified by: 23 September 2004 by M.D. Guiry
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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 18 May 2013.
Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:68951
