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Acetabularia peniculus (R.Brown ex Turner) Solms-Laubach

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Chlorophyta
Class Ulvophyceae
Order Dasycladales
Family Polyphysaceae
Genus Acetabularia

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Point Lonsdale, Victoria, Australia. 15 Oct 2009. M.D. Guiry. © Michael Guiry (mike.guiry@nuigalway.ie).

Point Lonsdale, Victoria, Australia. M.D. Guiry. © Michael Guiry (mike.guiry@nuigalway.ie).

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Acetabularia peniculus (R.Brown ex Turner) Solms-Laubach Point Lonsdale, Victoria, Australia

Publication details
Acetabularia peniculus (R.Brown ex Turner) Solms-Laubach 1895: 27-28, pl. 2: figs. 2, 6, 7

Original publication: Solms-Laubach, H. (1895). Monograph of the Acetabularieae. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, Second Series, Botany 5: 1-39, pls 1-4.
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Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Acetabularia is Acetabularia acetabulum (Linnaeus) P.C.Silva.

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

Basionym
Fucus peniculus R.Brown ex Turner

Type information
Type locality: King George Sound, Western Australia (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996: 893). Type: Peron & Lesuer; sur une vénus. PC? (Womersley 1984: 297). Notes: Womersley (1984: 297) gives the type locality as Nouvelle-Hollande, sur une vénus.

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Polyphysa australis Lamarck 1816
Polyphysa aspergillosa J.V.Lamouroux 1816
Fucus peniculus R.Brown ex Turner 1819
Polyphysa peniculus (R.Brown ex Turner) C.Agardh 1823
Polyphysa cliftonii Harvey 1858

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Acetabularia peniculus var. cliftonii (Harvey) Solms-Laubach 1895

General environment
This is a marine species.

Distribution by country

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Polyphysa peniculus (R.Brown ex Turner) C.Agardh)
Australia and New Zealand: Australia (Berger et al. 2003), Lord Howe Island (Womersley 1984), New South Wales (Womersley 1984), South Australia (Womersley 1984), Tasmania (Womersley 1984), Victoria (Womersley 1984), Western Australia (Womersley 1984, Huisman & Walker 1990, Berger et al. 2003).

(as Acetabularia peniculus (R.Brown ex Turner) Solms-Laubach)
Australia and New Zealand: Western Australia (Berger et al. 2003).

Source of synonymy
Berger, S., Fettweiss, U., Gleissberg, S., Liddle, L.B., Richter, U., Sawitzky, H. & Zuccarello, G.C. (2003). 18S rDNA phylogeny and evaluation of cap development in Polyphysaceae (formerly Acetabulariaceae; Dasyladales, Chlorophyta). Phycologia 42: 506-561.

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

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=Acetabularia&Species=peniculus

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 25 June 2000 by Fabio Rindi

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

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 1949 times since it was created.

Linking to this page: http://www.algaebase.org/search/species/detail/?species_id=23208

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 24 May 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:60967

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