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Hincksia secunda (Kützing) P.C.Silva

Publication details
Hincksia secunda (Kützing) P.C.Silva in P.C.Silva, Meñez & Moe 1987: 130

Original publication: Silva, P.C., Meñez, E.G. & Moe, R.L. (1987). Catalog of the benthic marine algae of the Philippines. Smithsonian Contributions to Marine Sciences 27: [i-ii] iii-iv, 1-179, 2 figs, 1 table.
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Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Hincksia is Hincksia ramulosa J.E.Gray.

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

Basionym
Ectocarpus secundus Kützing

Type information
Type locality: Biarritz, Atlantic France (Athanasiadis 1996: 142). Type: L?

Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), next, following, second, having leaves or other features turned towards the same side (Stearn 1973).

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Ectocarpus secundus Kützing 1847
Giffordia secunda (Kützing) Batters 1892

General environment
This is a marine species.

Distribution by country

Point data for Ireland and Britain

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Detailed distribution with sources
(as Ectocarpus secundus Kützing)
Europe: Britain (Newton 1931).

(as Giffordia secunda (Kützing) Batters)
Ireland: Antrim (Morton 1994), Cork (Guiry 1978), Down (Morton 1994), Waterford (Guiry 1978), Wexford (Norton 1970, Guiry 1978).

Europe: France (Feldmann 1954), Ireland (Guiry 1978, Morton 1994), Netherlands (Stegenga & Mol 1983), Portugal (Ardré 1970), Spain (Valenzuela & Pérez-Cirera 1982).

Atlantic Islands: Iceland (Caram & Jónsson 1972).

North America: New Hampshire (Taylor 1957, Mathieson & Hehre 1986), Rhode Island (Taylor 1957).

Africa: Morocco (Dangeard 1949).

(as Hincksia secunda (Kützing) P.C.Silva)
Europe: Adriatic (Ribera et al. 1992), Belgium (Coppejans 1995), Britain (Hardy & Guiry 2003), France (Coppejans 1995, Dizerbo & Herpe 2007, Anon. 2012), Ireland (Guiry 2012), Italy (Ribera et al. 1992, Furnari, Cormaci & Serio 1999, Rindi, Sartoni & Cinelli 2002), Portugal (Araújo et al., 2003, Araujo et al. 2009, Araújo, Bárbara & Sousa-Pinto in press), Sardinia (Ribera et al. 1992), Spain (Ribera et al. 1992, Bárbara & Cremades 1996, Cremades, Bárbara, Granja & Veiga 1997, Peña & Bárbara 2002, Bárbara et al. 2005, Martínez-Gil et al. 2007, Peña & Bárbara 2008, Cires Rodriguez & Cuesta Moliner 2010), Veneto (Sfriso, A.).

South America: Chile (Ramírez & Santelices 1991).

Africa: Algeria (Ribera et al. 1992).

Asia: Korea (Lee & Kang 2001).

Key references
Cormaci, M., Furnari, G., Catra, M., Alongi, G. & Giaccone, G. (2012). Flora marina bentonica del Mediterraneo: Phaeophyceae. Bollettino dell'Accademia Gioenia 45: 1-508.

Sfriso, A. (2011). Ochrophyta (Phaeophyceae e Xanthophyceae). Ambiente di transizione italiani e litorali adiacenti. pp. [1]-234, pls 1-51. Bologna: Arpa Emilia-Romagna.

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

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=Hincksia&Species=secunda

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 07 April 1996 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 26 June 2012 by Michael Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 818 times since it was created.

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Citing AlgaeBase
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Michael 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 26 May 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:77260

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