Sporochnus viridis (O.F.Müller) Greville 1830
Current name:
Desmarestia viridis (O.F.Müller) J.V.Lamouroux
Upper subtidal (Peter the Great Bay, Russia) - 09 March 2012. Contact: Eduard and Tamara Titlyanova (etitlyanov@mail.ru)
Publication Details
Sporochnus viridis (O.F.Müller) Greville 1830: 39
Published in: Greville, R.K. (1830). Algae britannicae, or descriptions of the marine and other inarticulated plants of the British islands, belonging to the order Algae; with plates illustrative of the genera. pp. [i]-lxxxviii, [1]-218, pl. 1-19. Edinburgh & London: McLachlan & Stewart; Baldwin & Cradock.
Request PDFPublication date: Feb.-March 1830
Type Species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Sporochnus is Sporochnus pedunculatus (Hudson) C.Agardh.
Status of Name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Desmarestia viridis (O.F.Müller) J.V.Lamouroux.
Source of Synonymy
Lamouroux, J.V.F. (1813). Essai sur les genres de la famille des Thalassiophytes non articulées. Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle 20: 21-47, 115-139, 267-293, plates 7-13.
Basionym
Fucus viridis O.F.Müller
Type Information
Type locality: Sinus Dróbachiense [Drøbak, Norway]; (Müller 1782: 5) Lectotype: original illustration (epitype)
Origin of Species Name
Adjective (Latin), green (Stearn 1983).
General Environment
This is a marine species.
Created: 27 August 1999 by M.D. Guiry.
Last updated: 24 July 2017
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Nomenclatural note
Combination previously proposed by C. Agardh 1820. Sp. alg. 1(1): 165, with the same Basionym. (See INA) - (24 December 2018) - Salvador Valenzuela Miranda
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Citing AlgaeBase
Cite this record as:
M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 24 July 2017. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 15 June 2025
