Pteridium angustissimum (Turner) J.Agardh 1876

Publication Details
Pteridium angustissimum (Turner) J.Agardh 1876: 482

Published in: Agardh, J.G. (1876). Species genera et ordines algarum, seu descriptiones succinctae specierum, generum et ordinum, quibus algarum regnum constituitur. Volumen tertium: De Florideis curae posteriores. Epicrisis systematis Floridearum. pp. [ii*-iii*], [i]-[viï], [1]-724. Lipsiae [Leipzig]: apud T.O. Weigel.

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Publication date: Apr-Aug 1876 [TL2]

Type Species
A type species for this genus does not appear to have been designated.

Status of Name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Membranoptera carpophylla (Kützing) Athanasiadis.

Source of Synonymy
Athanasiadis, A. (2016). Phycologia Europaea Rhodophyta Vol. II. pp. [2], 763-1504. Thessaloniki: Published and distributed by the author.

Basionym
Fucus alatus var. angustissimus Turner

Type Information
Syntype localities: "apud Scarborough. D. Pitchford.—Apud Lossiemouth, in Scotiae Septentrionalis oris orientalibus. D. Brodie."; (Turner 1809-1811: 59)

Origin of Species Name
Adjective (Latin), very narrow.

General Environment
This is a marine species.

Created: 07 February 1999 by M.D. Guiry.

Last updated: 25 January 2017

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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 25 January 2017. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 14 June 2025