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Melobesia frondosa Dufour 1861

Current name: Lithophyllum stictiforme (Areschoug) Hauck
Rottnest Island, Western AustraliaJ.M. Huisman

Publication Details
Melobesia frondosa Dufour 1861: 39

Published in: Dufour, L. (1861). Quadro delle Melobesie del mare di Genova. Commentario della Societa Crittogamologica Italiana 1: 37-40.

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Type Species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Melobesia is Melobesia membranacea (Esper) J.V.Lamouroux.

Status of Name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Lithophyllum stictiforme (Areschoug) Hauck.

Source of Synonymy
Woelkerling, W.J. (1998). Type collections of non-geniculate corallines housed at the Laboratoire de Cryptogamie (PC). In: Non-geniculate coralline red algae and the Paris Muséum: systematics and scientific history. (Woelkerling, W.J. Eds), pp. 279-404. Paris: Muséum National d'Histoire naturelle / ADAC.

Type Information
Lectotype locality: San Nazzaro, Genoa, Italy; (Furnari, Cormaci & Alongi 1996: 121) Lectotype: L. Dufour; date not indicated; PC; unnumbered, Thuret-Bornet Herbarium (algal fascicle 132, filed under Lithophyllum expansum); designated by Woelkerling, Penrose & Chamberlain, 1993: 327 (Woelkerling 1998: 372)

Origin of Species Name
Adjective (Latin), leafy.

General Environment
This is a marine species.

Created: 09 August 1999 by M.D. Guiry.

Last updated: 07 April 2009

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Taxonomic notes
Womersley (1996: 233) cites Lithophyllum frondosum as the accepted name. - (07 April 2009) - G.M. Guiry
Woelkerling et al. (1993) studied the lectotype and concluded that it was a heterotypic synonym of Lithophyllum grandiusculum; however Furnari, Cormaci & Alongi (1996: 120) concluded that the pore canal shape of tetrasporangia conceptacles of M. frondosa is quite different from that of L. grandiusculum. - (11 May 2006) - G.M. Guiry

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G.M. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 07 April 2009. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 17 June 2025