Melanothamnus pseudovillum (Hollenberg) Díaz-Tapia & Maggs 2017

Publication Details
Melanothamnus pseudovillum (Hollenberg) Díaz-Tapia & Maggs 2017: 8, table 4

Published in: Díaz-Tapia, P., McIvor, L., Freshwater, D.W., Verbruggen, H., Wynne, M.J. & Maggs, C.A. (2017). The genera Melanothamnus Bornet & Falkenberg and Vertebrata S.F. Gray constitute well-defined clades of the red algal tribe Polysiphonieae (Rhodomelaceae, Ceramiales). European Journal of Phycology 52(1): 1-20, 77 figs.

Publication date: February 2017

Type Species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Melanothamnus is Melanothamnus somalensis Bornet & Falkenberg.

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

Basionym
Polysiphonia pseudovillum Hollenberg

Type Information
Type locality: Johnston Island: North Island; (Index Nominum Algarum) Holotype: R.S. Jones; April 22 1965; [Hollenberg 65-52] (Index Nominum Algarum) Notes: Johnston Atoll, Central Pacific. Holotype: US 61232 (Díaz-Tapia, 2017). H. 65-52, tetrasporic, cystocarpic and spermatangial, growing on dead coral at a depth of 1-2 m and 20 m shoreward from the outer reef margin, north of North I., Johnston I. (Hollenberg, 1968).

Origin of Species Name
Noun (Latin), not like a species named villum.

General Environment
This is a marine species.

Created: 02 February 2017 by M.D. Guiry.

Last updated: 15 May 2017

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G.M. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 15 May 2017. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 19 April 2024

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