Sarcothalia livida (Turner) Hommersand

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Rhodophyta
Subphylum Eurhodophytina
Class Florideophyceae
Subclass Rhodymeniophycidae
Order Gigartinales
Family Gigartinaceae
Genus Sarcothalia

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Publication details
Sarcothalia livida (Turner) Hommersand in Hommersand et al. 1993: 113

Original publication: Hommersand, M.H., Guiry, M.D., Fredericq, S. & Leister, G.L. (1993). New perspectives in the taxonomy of the Gigartinaceae (Gigartinales, Rhodophyta). Proceedings of the International Seaweed Symposium 14: 105-120, 41 figs.
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Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Sarcothalia is Sarcothalia burmannii (C.Agardh) Kützing.

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

Basionym
Fucus lividus Turner

Type information
Type locality: "Southern Ocean" (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996: 293). Type: BM (Hommersand, Guiry, Fredericq & Leister 1993: 113). Notes: New Zealand (Hommersand et al. 1993: 113).

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Fucus lividus Turner 1811
Gigartina livida (Turner) J.Agardh 1842

General environment
This is a marine species.

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Gigartina livida (Turner) J.Agardh)
Australia and New Zealand: Auckland Islands (Chapman 1979), Chatham Islands (Chapman 1979), New Zealand (Chapman 1979, Adams 1994, Adams 1997), Stewart Island (Chapman 1979).

Antarctic and the subantarctic islands: Campbell Island (Papenfuss 1964).

(as Sarcothalia livida (Turner) Hommersand)
Indian Ocean Islands: St. Paul Island (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996).

Australia and New Zealand: New Zealand (Nelson 2012).

Key references
Silva, P.C., Basson, P.W. & Moe, R.L. (1996). Catalogue of the benthic marine algae of the Indian Ocean. University of California Publications in Botany 79: 1-1259.

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

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=Sarcothalia&Species=livida

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 16 January 1998 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 09 July 2009 by Wendy Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 484 times since it was created.

Linking to this page: http://www.algaebase.org/search/species/detail/?species_id=2687

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 19 June 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:75036