Ceramium filamentosum (Wulfen) C.Agardh 1828

Current name: Spyridia filamentosa (Wulfen) Harvey
microscope, Frioul, Marseille, France, 2011Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es)

Publication Details
Ceramium filamentosum (Wulfen) C.Agardh 1828: 141

Published in: Agardh, C.A. (1828). Species algarum rite cognitae, cum synonymis, differentiis specificis et descriptionibus succinctis. Voluminis secundi. Sectio prior. pp. [i]-lxxvi, [i]-189. Gryphiae [Greifswald]: sumptibus Ernesti Mauriti [Ernst Mauritius].

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Publication date: Sept-Dec 1828

Type Species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Ceramium is Ceramium virgatum Roth.

Status of Name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Spyridia filamentosa (Wulfen) Harvey.

Source of Synonymy
Harvey, W.H. (1833). Div. I. Inarticulatae. Div. II. Confervoideae; Div. III. Gloiocladeae. In: The English Flora of Sir James Edward Smith. Class XXIV. Cryptogamia. Vol. V. (or Vol. II of Dr. Hooker's British flora). Part I. Comprising the Mosses, Hepaticae, Lichens, Characeae and Algae. (Hooker, W.J. Eds), pp. 259-262, 264-401. London: Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans Paternoster-Row.

Basionym
Fucus filamentosus Wulfen

Type Information
Type locality: "Supra submarina Adriatici corpora." [Adriatic Sea]; (Wulfen 1803: 64) Type: Vienna?; (Maggs & Hommersand 1993: 136)

Origin of Species Name
Adjective (Latin), filamentous (Stearn 1983).

General Environment
This is a marine species.

Created: 21 January 1999 by M.D. Guiry.

Last updated: 01 August 2017

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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 01 August 2017. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 01 June 2025