Fucus osmundaceus Turner
Publication details
Fucus osmundaceus Turner 1808-1809: 91
Original publication: Turner, D. (1808-1809). Fuci sive plantarum fucorum generi a botanicis ascriptarum icones descriptiones et historia. Fuci, or coloured figures and descriptions of the plants referrred by botanists to the genus Fucus. Vol. 2 pp. [i], [1]-164, [1-2], pl. 72-134 (col. copp. W.J. Hooker). Londini [London]: Typis J. M'Creery, impensis J. et A. Arch.
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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 Stephanocystis osmundacea (Turner) Trevisan
Synonym(s)
No synonyms are currently included in AlgaeBase.
General environment
This is a marine species.
Type information
Type locality: At Port Trinidad, on the North-west coast of America (Turner 1808-1809: 92). Type: Mr. Menzies; BM-K
Source of synonymy
Draisma, S.G.A., Ballesteros, E., Rousseau, F. & Thibaut, T. (2010). DNA sequence data demonstrate the polyphyly of the genus Cystoseira and other Sargassaceae genera (Phaeophyceae). Journal of Phycology 46(6): 1329-1345.
SAG Cultures
SAG Cultures may be viewed at http://sagdb.uni-goettingen.de/showstrains.php?genus=Fucus&species=osmundaceus
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=osmundaceus
Created: 06 January 1999 by M.D. Guiry
Verified by: 28 May 2012 by Michael Guiry
Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 780 times since it was created.
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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 20 June 2013.
Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:109058
