Monostroma fuscum var. blyttii (Areschoug) Batters

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Chlorophyta
Class Ulvophyceae
Order Ulotrichales
Family Gomontiaceae
Genus Monostroma

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Publication details
Monostroma fuscum var. blyttii (Areschoug) Batters 1902: 10

Original publication: Batters, E.A.L. (1902). A catalogue of the British marine algae. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign 40(Supplement): 1-107.
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Type species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Monostroma is Monostroma bullosum (Roth) Thuret.

Status of name
This name is currently regarded as a taxonomic synonym of Ulvaria obscura var. blyttii (Areschoug) Bliding

Basionym
Ulva blyttii Areschoug

Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), a sombre brown, but often used to indicate darkness of colour (Stearn 1973).

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

General environment
This is a marine species.

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Monostroma fuscum var. blyttii (Areschoug) Batters)
Arctic: Canada (Arctic) (Taylor 1957).

Europe: Britain (Batters 1902, Newton 1931).

North America: British Columbia (Scagel 1957), Labrador (Taylor 1957), Massachusetts (Taylor 1957), Newfoundland (Taylor 1957), Quebec (Taylor 1957), Rhode Island (Taylor 1957), Washington (Scagel 1957).

Key references
Collins, F.S. (1903). The Ulvaceae of North America. Rhodora 5: 1-31, Plates 41-43.

Dube, M.A. (1967). On the life history of Monostroma fuscum (Postels et Ruprecht) Wittrock. Journal of Phycology 3: 64-73.

Scagel, R.F. (1957). An annotated list of the marine algae of British Columbia and northern Washington (including keys to genera). Bulletin, National Museum of Canada 150: [i]-vi, 1-289.

SAG Cultures
SAG Cultures may be viewed at http://sagdb.uni-goettingen.de/showstrains.php?genus=Monostroma&species=fuscum

SCCAP Cultures
Cultures from the Scandinavian Culture Collection of Algae at the University of Copenhagen (SCCAP) and Protozoa may be viewed at http://www.sccap.dk/search/algaebase.asp?Genus=Monostroma&Species=fuscum

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 18 March 1999 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 11 December 2010 by Salvador Valenzuela Miranda

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 311 times since it was created.

Linking to this page: http://www.algaebase.org/search/species/detail/?species_id=17887

Citing AlgaeBase
Cite this record as:
Salvador Valenzuela Miranda in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2013. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org; searched on 24 May 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: No taxonomy record found for this level.