Cystoseira subfarcinata (Mertens) C.Agardh 1824
Current name:
Cystophora subfarcinata (Mertens) J.Agardh
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 March 2002. Michael Guiry (mike.guiry@nuigalway.ie)
Publication Details
Cystoseira subfarcinata (Mertens) C.Agardh 1824: 289
Published in: Agardh, C.A. (1824). Systema algarum. pp. [i]-xxxvii, [1]-312. Lundae [Lund]: Literis Berlingianis [Berling].
Request PDFPublication date: probably September 1824
Type Species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Cystoseira is Cystoseira concatenata (Linnaeus) C.Agardh.
Status of Name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Cystophora subfarcinata (Mertens) J.Agardh.
Source of Synonymy
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.
Basionym
Fucus subfarcinatus Mertens
Type Information
Type locality: "Patria, Terra van Diemen." [Tasmania]; (Mertens 1819: 184) Type: LD; herb. alg. Agardh (fragments) (Womersley 1987: 400)
General Environment
This is a marine species.
Created: 24 September 1999 by M.D. Guiry.
Last updated: 13 November 2022
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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 13 November 2022. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 25 May 2025
