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Cystophora subfarcinata (Mertens) J.Agardh

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Chromista
Phylum Ochrophyta
Class Phaeophyceae
Order Fucales
Family Sargassaceae
Genus Cystophora

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Petticoat Creek, Victoria, Australia. 04 Dec 2010. M.D. Guiry. © Michael Guiry (mike.guiry@nuigalway.ie).

Point Lonsdale, Victoria, Australia; Gerry Kraft writes: this "is a kind of indicator species of water movement and wave conditions. The more compact the laterals the rougher the water, as a general rule.". 01 Mar 2002. Michael Guiry. © Michael Guiry (mike.guiry@nuigalway.ie).

Point Lonsdale, Victoria, Australia; Gerry Kraft writes: this "is a kind of indicator species of water movement and wave conditions. The more compact the laterals the rougher the water, as a general rule." . 01 Mar 2002. Michael Guiry. © Michael Guiry (mike.guiry@nuigalway.ie).

Point Lonsdale, Victoria, Australia.. 01 Mar 2002. Michael Guiry. © Michael Guiry (mike.guiry@nuigalway.ie).

Cystophora subfarcinata (Mertens) J.Agardh Point Lonsdale, Victoria, Australia.

Publication details
Cystophora subfarcinata (Mertens) J.Agardh 1848: 240-241

Original publication: Agardh, J.G. (1848). Species genera et ordines algarum, seu descriptiones succinctae specierum, generum et ordinum, quibus algarum regnum constituitur. Volumen Primum. Algas fucoideas complectens. pp. [i-vi], [i]-viii, [1]-363. Lundae [Lund]: C.W.K. Gleerup.
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Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Cystophora is Cystophora retroflexa (Labillardière) J.Agardh.

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

Basionym
Fucus subfarcinatus Mertens

Type information
Type locality: Tasmania (Mertens 1819: 184). Type: LD herb. alg. Agardh (fragments) (Womersley 1987: 400).

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Fucus subfarcinatus Mertens 1819
Cystoseira subfarcinata (Mertens) C.Agardh 1824

General environment
This is a marine species.

Distribution by country

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Cystophora subfarcinata (Mertens) J.Agardh)
Australia and New Zealand: South Australia (Womersley 1987), Tasmania (Womersley 1987), Victoria (Womersley 1987), Western Australia (Womersley 1987).

Key references
De Toni, G.B. (1895). Sylloge algarum omnium hucusque cognitarum. Vol. III. Fucoideae. Vol. 3 pp. [i]-xvi, [1]-638. Patavii [Padua]: Sumptibus auctoris.

Womersley, H.B.S. (1987). The marine benthic flora of southern Australia. Part II. pp. 481, 169 figs, 1 table, 8 plates, 4 maps. Adelaide: South Australian Government Printing Division.

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

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=Cystophora&Species=subfarcinata

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 24 September 1999 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 03 September 2012 by M.D. Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 2039 times since it was created.

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Citing AlgaeBase
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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2013. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org; searched on 25 May 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:63593

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