Liagora cheyneana Harvey

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Subkingdom Biliphyta
Phylum Rhodophyta
Subphylum Eurhodophytina
Class Florideophyceae
Subclass Nemaliophycidae
Order Nemaliales
Family Liagoraceae
Genus Liagora

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Publication details
Liagora cheyneana Harvey 1855: 552 (as 'cheyniana' )

Published in: Harvey, W.H. (1855). Some account of the marine botany of the colony of western Australia. Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy 22: 525-566.
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Type species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Liagora is Liagora viscida (Forsskål) C.Agardh.

Status of name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Ganonema farinosum (J.V.Lamouroux) K.C.Fan & Yung C.Wang

Synonym(s)
No synonyms are currently included in AlgaeBase.

General environment
This is a marine species.

Type information
Type locality: Cape Riche, Western Australia, Australia (Parnell & Huisman 2006: 115). Holotype: W.H. Harvey, Alg. Austral. Exsicc. No. 352; TCD (Parnell & Huisman 2006: 115). Notes: Illustrated by Parnell & Huisman (2006: fig. 50A).

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Source of current name
Huisman, J.M. (2006). Liagoraceae. In: Algae of Australia Nemaliales. (Huisman, J.M. Eds), pp. 29-30. Canberra: Australian Biological Resources Study.

Key references
Huisman, J.M., Abbott, I.A. & Sherwood, A.R. (2004). The Liagoraceae (Nemaliales, Rhodophyta) of the Hawaiian Islands III: the genus Ganonema, with a description of G. yoshizakii sp. nov.. Phycologia 43: 296-310.

Silva, P.C., Basson, P.W. & Moe, R.L. (1996). Catalogue of the benthic marine algae of the Indian Ocean. University of California Publications in Botany 79: 1-1259.

Womersley, H.B.S. (1994). The marine benthic flora of southern Australia - Part IIIA - Bangiophyceae and Florideophyceae (Acrochaetiales, Nemaliales, Gelidiales, Hildenbrandiales and Gigartinales sensu lato). pp. 1-508, 167 figs, 4 pls, 4 maps. Canberra: Australian Biological Resources Study.

Created: 13 February 1999 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 31 March 2017 by M.D. Guiry

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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2019. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org; searched on 20 February 2019.