Rhodomela tridens (Mertens ex Turner) C.Agardh 1822
Current name:
Dictyomenia tridens (Mertens ex Turner) Greville
Harvey, W.H. (1847). Nereis australis, or algae of the southern ocean: being figures and descriptions of marine plants, collected on the shores of the Cape of Good Hope, the extra-tropical Australian colonies, Tasmania, New Zealand, and the Antarctic r
Publication Details
Rhodomela tridens (Mertens ex Turner) C.Agardh 1822: 373
Published in: Agardh, C.A. (1822). Species algarum rite cognitae, cum synonymis, differentiis specificis et descriptionibus succinctis. Volumen primum pars posterior. pp. [v-vi], 169-398. Lundae [Lund]: ex officina Berlingiana.
Publication date: probably Oct 1822
Type Species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Rhodomela is Rhodomela subfusca (Woodward) C.Agardh.
Status of Name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Dictyomenia tridens (Mertens ex Turner) Greville.
Basionym
Fucus tridens Mertens ex Turner
Type Information
Type locality: New Holland (Western Australia); (Silva & al. 1996: 489) Holotype: Péron; BM; (Womersley 2003: 345) Notes: This type locality was first recorded by C. Agardh (1822: 373). Type from “Coast of New Holland” (Péron): probably from SE Australia ; holotype in BM, illustrated by Turner (Womersley, 2003: 345).
General Environment
This is a marine species.
Created: 30 January 1999 by M.D. Guiry.
Last updated: 09 February 2009
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G.M. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 09 February 2009. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 18 April 2024