Lithothamnion minervae Basso 1995

Current name: Lithothamnion minervae BassoMirella Coppola di Canzano (mirella.coppoladicanzano@fastwebnet.it)

Publication Details
Lithothamnion minervae Basso 1995: 354, pls 3, 4

Published in: Basso, D. (1995). Living calcareous algae by a paleontological approach: the genus Lithothamnion Heydrich nom. cons. from the soft bottoms of the Tyrrhenian Sea (Mediterranean). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 101: 349-366.

Type Species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Lithothamnion is Lithothamnion muelleri Lenormand ex Rosanoff.

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

Type Information
Type locality: Pontian Islands, Tyrrhenian Sea; (Basso 1995: 358) Holotype: from 73 to 78 m depth; Paleontological Museum of the Dept. of earth Sciences, University of Milan; MPUM no. 7513 (Basso 1995: 358, 350) Notes:

General Environment
This is a marine species.

Created: 21 July 1999 by M.D. Guiry.

Last updated: 20 December 2017

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Taxonomic note
Lithothamnion fruticulosum auctorum (non Spongites fruticulosa Kützing 1841) has been re-described and identified as L. minervae sp. nov. by Basso 1995. - (28 June 2010) - G.M. Guiry

Habitat note
In soft bottom sample and in maerl. Basso (1995: 358) notes that this species occurs commonly in circalittoral coastal detritic bottoms (DC; Pérès & Picard, 1964), and with the "maerl" species Phymatholithon calcareum and L. corallioides. - (28 June 2010) - G.M. Guiry

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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 20 December 2017. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 02 June 2025