Dasya hutchinsiae Harvey 1833

Dasya hutchinsiae Harvey

Current name: Dasya hutchinsiae Harvey
microscope, Spain, Galicia, Ría de Vigo, 2007Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es)

Publication Details
Dasya hutchinsiae Harvey 1833: 335

Published in: 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.

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Type Species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Dasya is Dasya pedicellata (C.Agardh) C.Agardh.

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

Type Information
Syntype localities: Bantry Bay, Co. Cork, Ireland; Shores of Orkney and Caithness, Scotland; Miltown Malbay, Co. Clare, Ireland; Kingstown, Co. Dublin, Ireland.; (Harvey 1833: 335) Lectotype (Bantry Bay; designated by Maggs & Hommersand 1993: 272): BM; sine numero (Maggs & Hommersand 1993: 272) Notes: Syntype localities:

General Environment
This is a marine species.

Description
Rather crisp, bushy, crimson to brownish red fronds, to 100 mm long. Branches numerous, irregular, densely clothed with stiff, patent, repeatedly dichotomous monosiphonous rauli. Ramuli to 20 um diam., with blunt apices, cells 3-4 times as long as broad. Main axis with central siphon and 5 pericentral siphons, corticated.

Habitat
On rocks or epiphytic, shady low intertidal pools and subtidal, southern and western coasts to Orkney Islands, occasional.

Created: 31 March 1996 by M.D. Guiry.

Last updated: 08 December 2023

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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 08 December 2023. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 19 March 2024

 
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