Polysiphonia violacea f. fibrillosa (Dillwyn) Rosenvinge

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Rhodophyta
Subphylum Eurhodophytina
Class Florideophyceae
Subclass Rhodymeniophycidae
Order Ceramiales
Family Rhodomelaceae
Tribe Polysiphonieae
Genus Polysiphonia

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Publication details
Polysiphonia violacea f. fibrillosa (Dillwyn) Rosenvinge 1924: 422

Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Polysiphonia is Polysiphonia urceolata (Lightfoot ex Dillwyn) Greville.

Status of name
This name is currently regarded as a taxonomic synonym of Polysiphonia fibrillosa (Dillwyn) Sprengel

Basionym
Conferva fibrillosa Dillwyn

Type information
Type locality: Brighton (Maggs & Hommersand 1993: 333). Lectotype: Borrer; July 1807; BM-K (Maggs & Hommersand 1993: 333). Notes: See also Kapraun & Rueness (1983, fig. 60).

Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), violet, refers to the blue-red colours nearer blue (Stearn 1973).

Synonym(s)
No synonyms are currently included in AlgaeBase.

General environment
This is a marine species.

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

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=Polysiphonia&Species=violacea

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 31 May 2000 by Fabio Rindi

Verified by: 23 September 2004 by M.D. Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 348 times since it was created.

References
(Please note: only references with the binomials in the title are included. The information is from the Literature database.)

Koch, C. (1986). Attempted hybridization between Polysiphonia fibrillosa and P. violacea (Bangiophyceae) from Denmark; with culture studies primarily on P. fibrillosa. Nordic Journal of Botany 6: 123-128.

Linking to this page: http://www.algaebase.org/search/species/detail/?species_id=22562

Citing AlgaeBase
Cite this record as:
Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2013. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org; searched on 20 May 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: No taxonomy record found for this level.